Allentown, Pennsylvania (May 22, 2026)\u00a0\u2013 A Christian Cairo RBI infield single in the 10th\u00a0inning gave the \u00a0Lehigh Valley IronPigs (22-27) a 6-5 walk-off win over the Scranton\/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (25-22) slip on Friday night at Coca-Cola Park.<\/p>\n
The RailRiders opened the scoring by plating two in the second as Kenedy Corona scored on a groundout and George Lombard Jr. scampered home on a wild pitch.<\/p>\n
Held without a hit the first two frames, back-to-back singles with two outs in the third set the stage for Bryan De La Cruz as he walloped a three-run homer, his third straight game with a dinger and eighth of the season, to vault the \u2018Pigs in front.<\/p>\n
The lead was short lived as a Lombard two-run single in the top of the fourth put the RailRiders back in front.<\/p>\n
After loading the bases in the fifth, the \u2018Pigs scratched out two runs to grab the lead again as Carter Kieboom was hit by a pitch to tie the game and Cairo drew a walk to force in another, making it 5-4.<\/p>\n
Yanquiel Fernandez tied the game for the RailRiders leading off the seventh, his fourth homer of the week.<\/p>\n
Still deadlocked at 5-5 heading into extras, the \u2018Pigs escaped the top of the 10th\u00a0unscathed as Cairo pulled off a marvelous deke to draw a RailRiders baserunner off the third base bag, stealing an out, before Kirby Snead (W, 1-0) punched out Corona to end the threat. Snead punched out two in a scoreless 10th, his only inning of work.<\/p>\n
In the bottom half, Cairo stepped up with Dylan Carlson at third and two outs and hit a grounder into the hole at shortstop that he legged out, scoring Carlson, and giving the \u2018Pigs a 6-5 win.<\/p>\n
Danny Watson (L, 3-2) takes the loss for the RailRiders, allowing the winning run in the 10th\u00a0(unearned), as he worked 1.2 innings, allowing just one hit while striking out two.<\/p>\n
The IronPigs and RailRiders will tee off again on Saturday, May Elmer Rodriguez for the RailRiders.<\/p>\n
The IronPigs are presented by\u00a0Capital\u00a0Blue Cross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allentown, Pennsylvania (May 22, 2026)\u00a0\u2013 A Christian Cairo RBI infield single in the 10th\u00a0inning gave the \u00a0Lehigh Valley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21],"tags":[114994,1982,97228,97191],"class_list":["post-248483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-baseball","tag-egypt","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116622915473754879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}