Scranton/Wilkes-Barre blanks the Syracuse Mets, 7-0

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Syracuse, NY – The Syracuse Mets ran into a buzzsaw on Thursday night, as the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders scored early and often on their way to a 7-0 win at NBT Bank Stadium. The week-long, six-game series is now knotted up at a game apiece. The RailRiders scored in four consecutive innings at one point on their way to the Thursday night victory.

For the second straight day, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (1-1) raced out to a big lead early in the ballgame. After jumping out to a 4-1 lead entering the bottom of the fifth inning in Wednesday night’s game, the RailRiders did even better in Thursday night’s game. The RailRiders jumped all over Tylor Megill, tagging the Mets starter for five runs allowed on six hits in four and two-thirds innings of work.

After Megill retired the first eight batters he faced in order and worked three scoreless innings to start the game, the wheels began to come off in the fourth inning. After Oswald Peraza struck out to start the inning, Ben Rortvedt walked to put a runner on base with one out. Andrés Chapparo then popped out to put Megill just an out away from escaping the inning without a scratch, but it wasn’t to be. Elijah Dunham doubled to extend the inning, followed by consecutive walks to Carlos Narvaez and Jamie Westbrook to plate one run and keep the bases loaded with two outs. The next batter, Jesús Bastidas, slapped a two-run single into right field to score two more runs and make it a 3-0 game.

In the fifth, the RailRiders scored another pair of runs to make it a 5-0 game and close the line on Megill in his first Triple-A start of the season. After an Estevan Florial single to start the inning, the next two batters were retired in order to once again to give Megill the hope of escaping the inning without damage. Once again, it wasn’t to be. Andrés Chapparo doubled home Florial to make it a 4-0, followed by an RBI single from Elijah Dunham to make it 5-0. Each of the five runs that Tylor Megill allowed in…