PLAYOFF BOUND: RailRiders Punch Ticket to Postseason on Season's Penultimate Day
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (September 2, 2018) - Baseball seasons are long. Games in April and May don't seem to matter in the larger scope of the season as teams grind through the heat of the summer. Yet with only one game awaiting them Monday, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders used a 3-2 win over
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (September 2, 2018) - Baseball seasons are long. Games in April and May don't seem to matter in the larger scope of the season as teams grind through the heat of the summer. Yet with only one game awaiting them Monday, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders used a 3-2 win over the Pawtucket Red Sox -- and some help around the rest of the International League - to secure the IL Wild Card.
Entering the day, SWB needed Toledo to beat Columbus and Louisville to beat Indianapolis in order to give them a chance for a win-and-get-in victory. With Toledo knocking off Columbus 10-5 earlier in the afternoon, and Louisville gradually growing a lead en route to a 10-2 win over the Indians, that left the onus on Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
It was a beautiful Sunday night at McCoy Stadium, and before a crowd of 10,769 the PawSox jumped out to a 2-0 lead on the back of a pair of two-out RBI singles in the 4th inning off
Entering the top of the 5th inning, the RailRiders offense had been held without a baserunner. It had been 12-up and 12-down off
The next man up was
Pawtucket threatened in the 9th inning with a pair of baserunners and only one out, but
The 2018 regular season concludes Monday afternoon with a 1:35 PM matinee from McCoy Stadium. Both team's starting pitchers are TBA following Sunday's game. Pregame coverage with Adam Marco and Adam Giardino begins at 1:05 p.m. The 2018 International League postseason begins Wednesday night at PNC Field against the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. For information on tickets and game times, please head to www.swbrailriders.com.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders Record:
72-65