Allentown, Pennsylvania (June 19, 2026)\u00a0\u2014 The Lehigh Valley IronPigs (34-39) evened the series at two games apiece against the Worcester Red Sox (35-34) with a 9-3 win on Juneteenth at Coca-Cola Park.<\/p>\n
The IronPigs scored first in their initial trip to the plate. Keaton Anthony drove in Christian Cairo and Otto Kemp with a double down the left-field line to make it 2-0. Cairo extended his on-base streak to 19 games with a leadoff single.<\/p>\n
In the fourth inning, the WooSox tied the game at 2-2 when Matt Thaiss sent a two-out single into center field to plate Anthony Seigler and Mikey Romero.<\/p>\n
Worcester took the lead in the fifth on a Tyler McDonough home run, 3-2.<\/p>\n
The IronPigs responded in the fifth when Felix Reyes singled, stole second base and scored on an Otto Kemp single to center field, tying the game at 3-3.<\/p>\n
Otto Kemp put the IronPigs ahead for good in the seventh inning with his sixth home run of the season, making it 4-3.<\/p>\n
The IronPigs\u2019 offense exploded for five runs in the eighth. Cairo singled to center to drive in Carter Kieboom, making it 5-3 with two on and two out for Felix Reyes. Reyes popped one up near the mound that fell and allowed Dylan Carlson and Christian Cairo to push the lead to 7-3. The IronPigs tacked on two more with singles from Anthony and Bryan De La Cruz.<\/p>\n
Chuck King (W, 4-3) earned the win with seven innings and four strikeouts, allowing three runs. Angel Bastardo (L, 2-1) took the loss, surrendering the home run to Kemp in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Lehigh Valley and Worcester continue the series Saturday, June 20, at Coca-Cola Park. First pitch is 6:35 p.m., with Drake Fellows on the mound for the IronPigs and a TBD starter for Worcester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allentown, Pennsylvania (June 19, 2026)\u00a0\u2014 The Lehigh Valley IronPigs (34-39) evened the series at two games apiece against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293035,"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-293034","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\/116780744216813803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293034","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=293034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}