Paul Sokoloski

Billy Burns races home on a wild pitch and the RailRiders are within 13-12

Breyvic Valera pops a sacrifice fly to short right field and Brandon Wagner scores as RailRiders creep within 13-11. They have runners on first and third, with two outs, and Kyle Higashioka looking to add to his two-homer and a double day

Mandy Alvarez knocks in a run with an infield single to chop the Syracuse lead to 13-10. And here comes Breyvic Valera, with the bases loaded and one out, after he nearly put the Railriders ahead while flying out to the wall for the final out of the seventh

Billy Burns draws a walk and the RailRiders have the bases loaded with one out. Don't look now, but the tying run is at the plate in Mandy Alvarez

Brandon Wagner rips a run-scoring single as the RailRiders pull within 13-9

Zach Zehner lifts a sacrifice fly to bring home Erik Kratz as the RailRiders close within 13-9

2-for-2. Kyle Higashioka crushes his second home run in as many innings, a shot halfway up the bank under the black in center field to start gthe RailRiders 8th

Ruben Tejada slams a two-run double of his own and the Mets have restored their six-run lead by matching the RailRiders' six-run seventh with six of their own in the eighth. It's 13-6

Jason Krizan strokes a bases-loaded, two-run double as Syracuse boosts its eighth-inning advantage to 11-6

Ali Sanchez scores on a wild pitch for Syracuse as the Mets boost their lead to 9-6

Gregor Blanco delivers and insurance run for Syracuse with a hit-and-run single in the 8th

Breyvic Valera takes Syracuse right fielder Aaron Altherr to the wall for the final out of the 7th, but the RailRiders are right back in this thing trailing 7-6 heading to the 8th

Mandy Alvarez hits a hopper to short for a doubleplay, but Zach Zehner scores to pull RailRiders within 7-6

No. 9 hitter Billy Burns draws a 4-pitch walk to force in another run. The RailRiders now have the tying run in scoring position, the go-ahead run on first base, the bags filled and nobody out with the top of the order coming up

Brandon Wagner drops a soft single into left field for another run that closes the RailRides gap to 7-4. Bases still loaded, still nobody out

Zach Zehner laces an RBI single to right as the RailRiders pull within 7-3 and still have the bases loaded with nobody out

Three straight singles by Erik Kratz, Gosuke Katoh and Wendell Rijo follow Higashioka's homer and fill the bases for the RailRiders with nobody out in the 7th. That also finishes Ervin Santana