Staten Island FerryHawks 6, Hagerstown Flying Boxcars 4
The Staten Island FerryHawks held on for a 6-4 victory over the Hagerstown Flying Boxcars Friday evening at SIUH Community Park.
Southpaw Rob Kaminsky turned in his best start as a member of the FerryHawks organization in the contest. The former St. Louis Cardinal tossed four innings and only allowed two earned runs- both came as a result of solo home runs. Cary Arbolida and Gary Mattis were the duo to tag the hurler for home runs in the early stages of the game.
Out of the bullpen, Clay Helvey pitched two innings of one-run baseball while striking out a trio of Flying Boxcars. Kirby Snead, James Meeker and Robbie Baker combined for the last 2.2 innings of the game on the rubber for Hawk City, surrendering only two hits altogether. When Baker closed out the game in the top of the 9th, the Georgia native solidified his 13th save of the 2025 campaign.
Offensively, Mark Contreras led the charge with a pair of extra-base hits. His two-run home run in the 5th inning sparked his three RBI evening, and now the centerfielder sits at 88 RBI on the year. Leadoff man Eddy Diaz got a hit in three of five tries while also plating a pair of runs, continuing his hot streak at the plate against Hagerstown. Outfielder Tyler Dearden collected his 11th RBI of the series with a single roped back up the middle in the earlier innings of the affair, but that was just half of his 2-4 day at the dish. Vaun Brown went 3-4 with two runs scored as well.
With the win on Friday, Staten Island has now emerged victorious in four straight games against the Boxcars. The series will wrap up this weekend with a 6:30PM start on Saturday, September 6th, and an afternoon game on Sunday, September 7th.
York Revolution 8, Lancaster Stormers 3
The York Revolution continued their weeklong domination of the Lancaster Stormers on Friday evening with an 8-3 win at WellSpan Park.
Lancaster was able to maintain its two-game lead over the Long Island Ducks, which fell at High Point, 3-2. York has closed to within three of the division-leading Stormers.
York, which had hit 13 homers in the three games at Penn Medicine Park earlier in the week, built the offense on doubles and triples in their own yard. With runners at first and second in the bottom of the first inning, Shayne Fontana double to left center off Matt Swarmer (1-4), the first of the seven doubles by the Revs on the night. Jeffrey Wehler followed with another as York raced ahead, 3-0.
Lancaster got two runs back in the top of the third. Nick Lucky led off with a walk from Chris Vallimont (9-4), and Alex Isola doubled him to third with a liner into the left field corner. Yeison Coca and Melvin Mercedes each picked up a run with a ground out as Lancaster closed within one.
However, York did not really allow the Stormers back in the game. Jalen Miller beat out an infield single to start the third. Newcomer Kyle Martin drove a deep double to right center, and Williams smashed a double inside the third base bag to stretch the lead to 5-2.
Again, the Stormers gave themselves some hope with a pair of walks and a two-out RBI single by Lucky in the fourth.
York would have none of it, though. The Revs used a double by Kyle Martin and single by Fontana in the fifth to add a run. Caleb McNeely tripled and scored on a sac fly by Frankie Tostado in the sixth. Williams and Elvis Peralta teamed up with doubles in the seventh for the final tally of the night.
Noah Skirrow (15-3) will take the mound for the Stormers on Saturday at 6:30 against Alex Valverde (1-2). Fans may tune into the game on FloBaseball beginning at 6:25.
NOTES: Lucky drove in his 80th run of the season…Mason Martin has hit safely in all four games of the series.
High Point Rockers 3, Long Island Ducks 2
HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point Rockers took an early 3-0 lead and held on to defeat the Long Island Ducks 3-2 on Friday night at Truist Point. D.J. Burt singled home a pair of runs and Rockers reliever Jameson McGrane set a club record with his 32nd career save.
The win raises the Rockers record to 69-76 on the season and 28-24 in the second half. Long Island is now 66-49 overall and 31-21 in the second half. The Rockers entered the day three games behind Gastonia which hosted Southern Maryland on Friday night.
Fin Del Bonta-Smith (W, 2-3) went seven innings and held the Ducks to two runs on six hits while walking none. Andre Scrubb made his Rockers debut and allowed a pair of hits in the eighth but escaped without allowing a run. McGrane struck out two in putting the Ducks down in order to earn his 15th save of the year and the 32nd of his High Point career. He passed the previous mark of 31 held by Ryan Dull.
The Rockers took a 2-0 lead in the first when Drew Mendoza and Alex Dickerso each singled off Ducks starter Ryan Sandberg (L, 5-5). With two outs, D.J. Burt lined a single to left to score both base runners.
High Point took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth when Aidan Brewer drew a one-out walk from Sandberg and scored from first on a double by Luis Gonzalez.
The Ducks slowly cut into the lead, using a lead-off homer from Aaron Antonini in the fifth and a solo shot from Taylor Kohlwey in the seventh to make it a 3-2 game.
Luis Gonzalez had a pair of doubles and extended his streak of consecutive games on-base to 21.Dickerson added two hits for the Rockers while Kole Kaler, Ivan Castillo and Aaron Antonini each had a pair of hits for the Ducks.
Game two of the three-game set is slated for a 6:35 p.m. first pitch on Saturday at Truist Point. The Rockers will send lefty Jonah Scolaro (9-5, 6.22) to the mound to face Long Island’s Juan Hillman (9-5, 4.80). Rocker fans can catch all the action on FLOBASEBALL.TV and on the MixLR app.
NOTES: The Rockers achieved a milestone on Friday, completing their third consecutive game without issuing a walk . . . The Rockers haven’t walked a batter since the fourth inning of Tuesday’s game vs. Southern Maryland, marking 32 consecutive innings without allowing a walk . . . Long Island’s pitchers retired the final 13 High Point batters . . . The Rockers have now won 10 straight from the ducks dating back to Long Island’s 3-1 win at Truist Point on June 6, 2024.
Southern Maryland Blue Crabs 7, Gastonia Ghost Peppers 6
Lexington Legends 6, Charleston Dirty Birds 2