Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Lucky Thirteen for the Railriders

The Railriders and IronPigs continued their three game set at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown. The Railriders looked to get a split into the series whereas the IronPigs looked to win their second game against the Railriders. Cesar Ramos got the start for Lehigh Valley. The Railriders went with Daniel Camarena. Ramos started off with a 1-2-3 top of the first. Camarena answered Ramos' start with a 1-2-3 inning of his own. Clint Frazier led off with a homer to right for a 1-0 Railriders lead. Ruben Tejada hit a single to left then Mason Williams singled to right moving Tejada to third. Williams would move to second on a wild pitch. Cito Culver would draw a walk to load the bases. Tejada would score on a Mark Payton RBI Fielder's choice for a 2-0 lead. Billy Fleming followed with a 2 RBI Double to center that scored Williams and Payton for a 4-0 lead. A groundout and a flyout ended the top of the second inning. Camarena threw another 1-2-3 frame in the bottom of the second. Wander Perez came in to pitch the third for the IronPigs. Frazier drew a one out walk, then on the next batter, Frazier moved to third on an errant pickoff. Tejada then drew a walk. Mason Williams scored Frazier on an RBI Sacrifice fly to right for the 5-0 lead. Cito Culver then hit a two run home run to left for the 7-0 lead. A groundout would end the inning. Jesmuel Valentin hit a two out single to center for the IronPigs first hit of the game, but a groundout would end the inning. Dustin Fowler hit a two out single then Clint Frazier followed with a walk but a popout ended the top of the fourth. JP Crawford led off with a single to right but would be forced out at second on the next batter on a Jorge Alfaro grounder to third. Gary Sanchez would throw out Alfaro at second trying to steal second. Dylan Cozens would get hit by a pitch but a strikeout kept the IronPigs off the board. Mason Williams led off with a single to center and would steal second on the next batter. After a strikeout, Payton would reach on an error, but a flyout and a strikeout would end the top of the fifth. Nick Williams would lead off by drawing a walk. After a forceout and a flyout, Jesmuel Valentin would single to center but a flyout ended the fifth. Adam Morgan came in to pitch for the IronPigs. Sanchez would single to center but Morgan would get keep the Railirders off the boards by getting two forceouts and a strikeout. Dylan Cozens would draw a two out walk but a lineout to second would end the sixth inning. With one out, Cito Culver would hit his second home run to right for the 8-0 lead. Mark Payton would walk, but a forceout and a groundout would get the game towards the seventh inning stretch. Tyler Webb came in to pitch for the Railriders. Hector Gomez would hit a single to left, but a strikeout and a groundout got Webb out of the inning. Dustin Fowler would hit a one out single to left. Fowler would move to second on a balk, then Frazier hit a double to center to score Fowler for a 9-0 lead. Luis Garcia came in to pitch for the IronPigs. Frazier would move to third on a flyout to right then Williams singled home Frazier for a 10-0 lead. Payton brought Williams home on a single to center for the 11-0 advantage. Billy Fleming then followed to make it 12-0 on a single that scored Culver. Tyler Wade then followed with a walk to make the bases loaded. Eddy Rodriguez who started the game as a pinch hitter then singled home Payton for the 13-0 lead. A strikeout would end the inning but not after the Railriders batted around and scored 5 runs in the eighth. Rodriguez would stay in as the catcher. Webb would throw a 1-2-3 eighth for the Railriders. Pedro Beato came in to pitch for the IronPigs and threw a 1-2-3 ninth. Tyler Jones came in to pitch the ninth for the Railriders. Nick Williams would keep the game alive with a two out double to left but Jones got a groundout to end the game as the Railriders blew away the IronPigs 13-0.

Thoughts on the game: Possibly the best offensive game the Railriders have had in this early season. Cito Culver has been on fire in the last two weeks, hitting his five home runs within that time. You could argue that everyone on the Railriders had a great game tonight. Despite all the runs, Camarena pitched a very good six innings, striking out 5 and now has a 0.98 ERA in his three starts. Then Tyler Webb and Tyler Jones completed the shutout.

Railriders 0 4 3 0 0 0 1 5 0 13
IronPigs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Railriders
SS Wade 5 0 0 0
C Sanchez 4 0 1 0
C Rodriguez 2 0 1 1
LF Fowler 6 1 2 0
RF Frazier 4 3 2 2
3B Tejada 5 2 1 0
CF Williams 5 2 3 2
1B Culver 3 3 2 3
DH Payton 3 2 1 2
2B Fleming 5 0 2 3

2B: Fleming, Frazier
HR: Frazier, Culver (2)

IronPigs
CF Quinn 4 0 0 0
SS Crawford 4 0 1 0
C Alfaro 4 0 0 0
LF/RF Cozens 2 0 0 0
1B Hoskins 4 0 0 0
DH Williams 3 0 1 0
RF Perkins 2 0 0 0
3B Gomez 2 0 1 0
3B/LF Featherston 3 0 0 0
2B Valentin 3 0 2 0

2B: Williams

Railriders
Camarena (W) 6 IP 3 H 0 R 0 ER 2 BB 5 K
Webb 2 IP 1 H 0 R 0 ER 0 BB 3 K
Jones 1 IP 1 H 0 R 0 ER 0 BB 1 K

IronPigs
Ramos (L) 2 IP 4 H 4 R 4 ER 1 BB 1 K
Perez 3 IP 3 H 3 R 3 ER 4 BB 2 K
Morgan 2.1 IP 4 H 3 R 3 ER 1 BB 1 K
Garcia 0.2 IP 4 H 3 R 3 ER 2 BB 1 K
Beato 1 IP 0 H 0 R 0 ER 0 BB 1 K

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