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Shelley Duncan of the New York Yankees looks on before the game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Bay Care Ballpark on March 1, 202in Clearwater Thurman Munson Jersey, by New York Yankees Scott Walsh is a Long Island native and has written for The Scranton TimesTribune for over 35 flocked to see the TripleA ScrantonWilkesBarre RailRiders during their first home series of the season last week at PNC Field in northeastern attendance for five dates was 17, 043, the team's largest Opening Week attendance since saw the RailRiders split the sixgame series with the Durham the opener, the RailRiders overcame a sixrun deficit in theie final three atbats for a 7win.A wild pitch and RBI double by bigleague veteran Paul DeJong in the bottom of the sixth brought the RailRiders within wild pitch and a Yanquiel Fernndez sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh narrowed the margin to in the bottom of the eighth, two balks brought in the tying Yankees face Oswaldo Cabrera followed with a sacrifice fly to give the RailRiders the Shelley Duncan said it was the type of win that can define the character of a team.The energy these guys had a lot of teams would sometimes implode, give up, Duncan said.But these guys stayed locked in every went out there and continued to have good atbats, just chipping trying to do too much, not trying to force that big inning, not trying to force the comeback in one inning.Ali Snchez kept that special feeling going in the series' second the Bulls scored a run in the top of the ninth to tie the game https://www.newyorkfanoutlet.com/Giancarlo_Stanton_Jersey, the catcher homered with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to give the RailRiders a 54 triumph.They kept grinding and it ended up paying off, said Duncan of his team's spirit.They had trust in themselves that things would 's something special.Durham won the next two games, 102, and, 42, in the first game of a RailRiders used a sixrun fourth inning to take the second game of the twinbill, Bulls claimed the series finale, 43, to salvage a Domnguez and Spencer Jones led the way for the RailRiders against nguez batted.316for19 in the series with seven walks and five stolen bases in six games.The Martian has been batting in the leadoff spot this season and is tied for seventh in the International League in batting at.354 17forwith two home runs, eight RBIs and seven stolen , meanwhile, hit.278 in the series 5for18 with one home run, eight RBIs and two stolen bases in six walked five times and struck out five last number is interesting since in his first eight games and 33 atbats, he whiffed 19 eight RBIs gave him 17 for the season, which is tied for the International League Danny Watson picked up two of the three wins in the series and fellow reliever Yovanny Cruz had the is 30 with one three wins are tied for the league split in the Durham series left the RailRiders with a 9record, two games behind the Memphis Redbirds in the International League now head north up Interstate 81 for a sixgame series with the Syracuse Mets that was scheduled to begin 78 is coming off a series in which it lost four of six to the Buffalo Morabito leads the Mets at.295 13 for 44 with two home runs and five Pache has a teambest 10 RBIs while batting.233 10 for 43 with one home Jonah Tong, the Mets' No.2 prospect, was scheduled to start the opening game of the he nor the RailRiders' Brendan Beck fared on the Syracuse roster is veteran Jose Rojas, who played for the RailRiders last season and was selected to the International League AllStar led the league with 32 home runs and 105 RBIs and tied for the lead with 35 doubles while batting. tied the franchise record for home runs in a season set in 20 by Jorge Vasquez and was the second player in franchise history with 100 or more RBIs in a season https://www.newyorkfanoutlet.com/Joe_Pepitone_Jersey, falling one short of the mark of 10set by Torey Lovullo in 1999.