Saturday Showdown: RailRiders edge Jumbo Shrimp 10-9
Jacksonville, FL (May 4, 2024) – The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders held off the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 10-9 Saturday afternoon at 121 Financial Ballpark. The RailRiders hit five home runs and eight of their 11 hits went for extra bases, helping extend their winning streak to five in a row. Box Score
Jacksonville, FL (May 4, 2024) – The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders held off the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 10-9 Saturday afternoon at 121 Financial Ballpark. The RailRiders hit five home runs and eight of their 11 hits went for extra bases, helping extend their winning streak to five in a row.
Carlos Narvaez staked Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning. After a two-out walk and with T.J. Rumfield on first, Narvaez hit a 1-2 pitch from Patrick Monteverde over the left-center wall for his third home run of the season.
The Jumbo Shrimp took the lead in the bottom of the inning against RailRiders starter Cody Poteet. Victor Mesa, Jr. singled and scored on an error. Will Banfield hit a three-run homer to left to put Jacksonville in front for just the second time this week.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre tied the game in the top of the second. Brandon Lockridge doubled with two outs to set the stage for Greg Allen to tie the game at four. Allen chased a Monteverde pitch over the 20-foot-high wall in right-center to even the score.
Kevin Smith hit a three-run home run in the top of the third to give the RailRiders a 7-4 lead. It was Smith’s first home run of the season and the third of the day by Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Jacksonville cut the lead to one on a Mesa, Jr. bases loaded two-run single in the fourth inning.
Oscar Gonzalez launched a solo home run to start the fifth inning, extending the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre lead back to a pair at 8-6. In the sixth, Everson Pereira hit a two-run blast off former RailRider Emmanuel Ramirez, putting SWB up 10-6.
Blasting off to a galaxy far, far away with FIVE homers 🛸
— SWB RailRiders (@swbrailriders) May 4, 2024
Carlos Narvaez, Greg Allen, Kevin Smith, Oscar González, and Everson Pereira EACH left the Earth with a long ball.#EverythingMajor #RepBX #StarWarsDay pic.twitter.com/kv1x7lC3nD
In the home half of the eighth, the Jumbo Shrimp scored three runs on four hits, including consecutive run-scoring singles by Mesa, Jr., MLB rehabber Jake Burger and Troy Johnston, cutting the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre lead to one at 10-9.
Phil Bickford pitched a scoreless ninth, allowing a pair of base hits, to shut the door. Narvaez caught Javier Sanoja stealing for the second out of the inning while Bickford bookended the inning with strikeouts.
Duane Underwood, Jr. (W, 2-0) pitched 1.1 scoreless innings in back of Poteet for the win and Bickford earned his second save of the season. Monteverde (L, 3-1) allowed the first seven runs for Jacksonville and took the loss.
All nine RailRiders in the starting lineup scored at least once on Saturday. Four players had multi-hit games as Scranton/Wilkes-Barre picked up its ninth win on its current 12-game road trip.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre closes their only series of the season on Sunday at 3:05 P.M. Yoendrys Gomez will start for the RailRiders and the Jumbo Shrimp counter with Yonny Chirinos. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre returns to PNC Field on May 7 to open their first series of the year against the Rochester Red Wings. For promotional information or to purchase tickets for the upcoming homestand, click here.