Three home teams post shutouts
York Revolution 5, Long Island Ducks 2
(August 27, 2025 – Central Islip, NY): The York Revolution got an excellent six innings from starter Kevin Miranda as they evened their six-game series at one win apiece with a 5-2 victory over the Long Island Ducks on Wednesday night at Fairfield Properties Ballpark. The Revs have won seven of their last 10, and snap the Ducks’ five-game winning streak in a preview of a potential North Division series matchup.
The Revs grabbed an instant lead as Jalen Miller homered for the second straight night, this time a game-opening leadoff line shot to left center for his 18th of the year and his fourth to begin a game.
Chris Williams tagged almost a carbon copy drive to leadoff the second with his fifth homer, all in his last 11 games played. The blast sailed to nearly the same spot, just over the left center wall under the videoboard. Ryan Higgins followed with a double off the base of the wall in left center, and Jeffrey Wehler drove him in with a single up the middle as the Revs blitzed Ducks starter Tim Melville for a quick 3-0 lead.
With two runners on, Miller nearly ballooned the lead with a rocket to left but River Town left his feet to reel in the first out of the second, and Melville (5-3) allowed just two baserunners over the remainder of his outing, a Wehler single in the fourth and a Williams double in the sixth, as the Ducks righty logged a quality start, keeping the game close.
Miranda allowed only a run in the third on a two-out bloop single to right by Leobaldo Cabrera. Attempting to go first to third, Town was gunned down at third by right fielder Shayne Fontana to end the inning with the Revs leading 3-1.
Miranda worked around two singles, striking out two in the fourth including Troy Viola on what ended up being an inning-ending double play when Viola was called for interfering with Williams’ throwing attempt on an attempting base stealer.
Miranda (3-2) allowed just one run on five hits over six innings, striking out seven while walking three to earn the win.
Grayson Thurman tossed a scoreless seventh, stranding a pair of singles.
Nick Mikolajchak surrendered just an unearned run in the eighth when he was unable to squeeze Wehler’s throw to first while covering on an attempted 3-6-1 double play. Mikolajchak stranded the tying run at first base, retiring Taylor Kohlwey on a grounder to first to end the inning.
The Revs padded the lead with two insurance runs in the ninth. Taking advantage of an error that allowed Higgins to reach, Wehler (3-for-4) delivered his third hit on a liner to right for a single. Jaylin Davis battled reliever Sal Romano deep into a 2-2 count and pounded an RBI single up the middle to plate Higgins. Miller added a sac fly to right for the second run as the lead swelled to 5-2.
Brendan Cellucci retired the side in order in the bottom of the ninth for his sixth save.
Notes: Miller is two home runs away from securing the first 20-homer, 50-steal season in league history, as well as the first 20-homer, 40-steal, 100-run season. The homer was his 57th extra-base hit, second-most in the league, tying Scott Grimes (2010) for 10th on the Revs’ all-time single season list. The leadoff homer was his fourth of the year, becoming the fourth in Revs history with at least four leadoff homers in a season and just the fifth player in club history with at least four leadoff homers in a Revs career, one shy of the record of five. Jeremy Arocho singled in the first extending his hitting streak to a season-best eight games. Higgins now has a season-best 10-game streak. Wehler’s three-hit game tied a season-best for the fifth time (first since July 17 vs High Point). Fontana saw a 16-game hitting streak end, the Revs’ longest of the season and tied for the league’s sixth longest this year. Miranda’s six innings marked his most since going seven for Double-A New Hampshire in a win vs Portland on September 4, 2024. Mikolajchak has gone 11 of 12 outings without allowing an earned run; an infield single accounted for just his second hit allowed in his last eight innings. Cellucci has retired 34 of 39 total batters with York including 33 of his last 36; he has now worked 10 consecutive hitless outings spanning 10.1 innings. The Revs match a season-best at 19 games over .500 (63-44). York has won 12 of its last 17 games at Long Island dating back to the 2023 season.
Up Next: The Revs and Ducks will meet for the third game of their six-game series Thursday at 6:35 p.m. York fans can catch the action live on SportsRadio 98.9 FM & 1350 WOYK, 989woyk.com, The New WOYK app, and FloBaseball.TV beginning at 6:15 p.m.
Hagerstown Flying Boxcars 2, Lancaster Stormers 0
Five Hagerstown pitchers combined to shut out the Lancaster Stormers on Wednesday evening as the Flying Boxcars evened the series at Meritus Park with a 2-0 victory.
Long Island also lost, so the Stormers retained a one-game lead in the North over the Ducks.
It was a messy shutout for the Hagerstown staff, their second of the season. Lancaster accumulated seven hits, drew eight walks and had one batter hit by a pitch.
There were several close calls along the way. Following a leadoff single by Luis Castro in the fourth, Mason Martin flied to the wall in center. Two batters later, after Castro had stolen second, Joe Campagna singled to left, but the relay throw cut down Castro at home, prompting as vehement of an argument as one will see from Lancaster skipper Ross Peeples.
Joseph Carpenter barely missed the right field line with two runners on ahead of him in the sixth.
In the seventh, first baseman Bryce Cannon made a diving stop along the first base line against Nick Ward with two runners aboard on walks.
The Stormers left the bases loaded in the eighth before Rafael Kelly shut the side down in order in the ninth for his 12th save.
In addition to the 11 runners left on base, Andrew Semo, playing in his first game with Hagerstown after his release from Lancaster, threw out three potential base stealers.
Anthony Imhoff (2-6) picked up the win. The lefty fired the first 5 1/3 innings, yielding six hits and three walks.
Hagerstown’s offense was meager. In the first, Tyler Williams led off with a double against Michael McAvene (6-4). He took third on a deep fly to right and scored when McAvene miscalculated a throw to first on a dribbler by Aaron Takacs with Takacs beating the lob toss to first. Williams also scored in the third as Williams was hit by a pitch, stole second and scored on a ground single up the middle by Ozzie Abreu.
McAvene finished five innings, allowing six hits and the two runs. Kyle Johnson and Phil Diehl combined to throw three shutout innings.
Luke McCollough (0-2) will start on Thursday evening against right-hander Jack Weisenburger (1-7). Fans may follow the action on FloBaseball, starting at 6:25.
NOTES: Coca extended a hitting streak to eight with an infield single in the third…Castro had three of Lancaster’s seven hits with two singles and a double…Joe Campagna added two hits but lost for the first time in 15 games as Lancaster’s starting catcher.
High Point Rockers 5, Charleston Dirty Birds 0
HIGH POINT, N.C. – The High Point Rockers used outstanding pitching from Ben Wereski and Gabe Klobosits to hold the Charleston Dirty Birds to four hits in a 5-0 win on Wednesday night at Truist Point.
The win marked the eighth shutout of the season for the Rockers pitching staff.
The win gives the Rockers a 65-42 overall record and a 24-20 mark in the second half. Charleston fell to 48-59 and 18-26.
The game started as a pitcher’s duel between High Point’s Wereski (W, 2-3) and Charleston’s Jamison Hill (L, 2-14). Wereski did not yield a hit until the fourth while Hill held the Rockers to two hits until the bottom of the fourth.
Alex Dickerson started the fourth for the Rockers with a walk and came around to score when Aidan Brewer hammered his 13th homer of the season to stake the Rockers to a 2-0 advantage.
Evan Edwards hit a solo homer with two outs in the sixth to give the Rockers a 3-0 lead.
Wereski came out after six innings, having allowed just two hits with just one walk and eight strikeouts. Hill also exited after six frames, having held the Rockers to five hits and three runs while striking out 11.
High Point added a pair of insurance runs in the seventh when Ben Aklinski and Nolan Watson each hit sacrifice flies to give the Rockers a 5-0 advantage.
Klobosits (S, 1) pitched the final three innings and allowed just one hit while walking two and striking out three.
The final game of this three-game series is set for Thursday at 6:35 p.m. at Truist Point. The Rockers will send lefty Alex Barker (0—0, 1.80) to the mound to face Charleston righty Eddy Demurias (5-4, 4.24). Rocker fans can catch all the action on FLOBASEBALL.TV and on the MixLR app.
Southern Maryland Blue Crabs 3, Staten Island FerryHawks 0
Gastonia Ghost Peppers 11, Lexington Legends 5