The Rochester Red Wings used an early offensive surge and a seven-pitcher shutout to defeat the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders 9-0 Saturday at PNC Field.
Seaver King started the game with a home run. The Red Wings added two more runs in the third inning when Phillip Glasser tripled, bringing home Leandro Pineda and King for a 3-0 lead.
Cayden Wallace singled and scored on Leandro Pineda's sacrifice fly in the fourth inning. Trey Lipscomb doubled in the fifth and scored on Sam Petersen's RBI single to make it 5-0.
Pineda hit a solo home run in the sixth, followed by a King single and a two-run shot by Yohandy Morales, extending the lead to 8-0. Lipscomb added a solo homer in the ninth.
Seaver King leads the way
King finished 2-for-3 with three runs scored, a home run and
two walks. Glasser went 2-for-5 with two RBIs, while Lipscomb was 2-for-5 with two runs, a double, a home run and an RBI. Pineda had two hits and two RBIs, and Morales drove in two.
Shutout leads Red Wings to victory
The Red Wings' pitching staff limited the RailRiders to seven hits. Erik Tolman was credited with the win after a scoreless second inning. Cole Henry, Matt Krook, Connor Van Scoyoc, Kyle Nicolas, Eddy Yean and Justin Lawrence completed the seven-hit shutout.
The win improved the Red Wings' record to 67-44. They have won four in a row and are 2.5 games behind Worcester and Durham in the second half standings.
Red Wings slug four homers in win Friday
Cayden Wallace broke the game open with a first-inning grand slam, and the Rochester Red Wings rode a four-homer night to a 13-5 victory over the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders on Friday at PNC Field.
Rochester scored six runs in the first inning, getting bases-loaded walks from Riley Adams and Sam Petersen before Wallace launched a grand slam to left field. The RailRiders cut the deficit to 6-2 on Anthony Volpe's two-run homer in the third, but Seaver King's fourth-inning forceout scored Wallace to restore a five-run lead.
Yohandy Morales hit his 22nd homer of the season in the fifth inning in his first game back from the injured list, and Maxwell Romero Jr. added a solo homer in the sixth. Wallace finished 3-for-5 with four RBIs and three runs scored, while Romero went 3-for-4 with two RBIs and Morales drove in a run and scored twice.
The Red Wings added four more runs in the ninth, highlighted by Leandro Pineda's three-run homer. Matt Krook earned the win with a scoreless inning of relief.
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