We completed our summer 2015 three game tour of area minor league baseball August 21 with a trip to the Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (formerly the Scranton Yankees) game and saw New York Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda go 4.2 innings in a rehab start.
We previously in the past couple months visited the Binghamton Mets (B-Mets) and the Hudson Valley Renegades at Dutchess Stadium in Fishkill and so were able to see games played at the three levels of minor league baseball, Single A, Double AA and Triple AAA.
Binghamton is a farm team of the New York Mets and the Renegades are a farm team of the Tampa Bay Rays.
The RailRiders (SWB) play in a new modern recently built (remodeled) (two years ago) PNC Field at Moosic, Pa just south of Scranton. A beautiful fan friendly facility.
Minor league baseball at all levels provide a venue that brings affordable family fun to area baseball fans....about an hour's drive to Binghamton, an hour to Fishkill and a just under two hours to Scranton.
Making the minor league tour with me was wife Shirley and grandson Rodney Taylor Jester who is aspiring to move his college level of baseball into the minor leagues.
In the August 21 game the SWB RailRiders and Rochester Red Wings went toe-to-toe for 14 innings before Austin Romaine forced a single up the middle to score the winning run in a 3-2 standoff with the victory allowing the RailRiders (71-55) a 5.5 game cushion over the Red Wings (66-61) in the International League North Division.
Pineda,
one of the top-level pitchers for the New York Yankees, fired 62
pitches, 45 for strikes, across 4.2 innings in the rehab start for SWB.
The right-hander is coming off a right forearm strain. He allowed a run
on three hits while striking
out three.
A fun night at the ball park near Scranton coupled with reasonably
priced food and drinks..... and of course a couple of Yankee souvenirs
for the grandson.........I just couldn't find any Mets souvenirs for
Shirley & I.......must have been a reason why.
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