(June 29th, 2023 – York, Pa.): Trey Martin blasted a pair of long balls but the York Revolution had their own comeback effort outdone by the Staten Island FerryHawks, dropping Thursday’s series finale, 8-7 at WellSpan Park. The Revs are denied the sweep as their four-game winning streak is halted, while their first place lead shrinks to half a game over Long Island with nine to play in the first half.
The Revs were going for the four-game home sweep against Staten Island as Tom Sutera toed the rubber for the Revs against Ofelky Cabrera with a low scoring game in the early innings.
The Revs took a 1-0 lead in the second when Martin clubbed his first homer of the night and fifth of the year on a line shot just over the digital board in left center. York had a chance for more but Trent Giambrone lined sharply into a double play with the bases loaded, as Martin’s homer was one of just two hits off of Peralta in the first four innings.
Sutera retired his first nine batters but surrendered two home runs in the fourth inning, as Angel Aguilar drilled one to deep left over the Arch Nemesis for a two-run shot, and Jack Elliot hit one to right field onto the clubhouse roof, a solo homer making it 3-1 Staten Island.
Sutera finished five innings and gave up four hits and three runs on no walks and one strikeout before giving way to new Revs righty Andrew Cabezas who pitched scoreless frames in the sixth and seventh in his debut.
Meanwhile, York began to come back as Tomo Otosaka smoked an RBI hit to right field in the bottom of the fifth, making it a 3-2 game before Peralta’s exit. The Revs bats came alive late again against the Staten Island bullpen.
Martin greeted Anthony Quattrocchi in the sixth inning with a bomb over the Nemesis for his first career multi-home run game, tying the score at 3-3.
The Revs erupted for four runs in the seventh off reliever Enrique Santana. Otosaka walked to start things and Troy Stokes Jr. rapped a single up the middle. That set up Drew Mendoza who hit a laser over Brandon Pugh’s head in center field, driving in a go-ahead run for a 4-3 lead. With runners at second and third, Martin added to his great night by launching one deep to center for a sac fly, making it 5-3, York. Jacob Rhinesmith ripped one on the ground down the first base line past a diving Deibinson Romero for an RBI double, extending the lead to 6-3. Jhon Nunez bounced one up the middle for an RBI single that plated Rhinesmith for some breathing room with a 7-3 lead after six unanswered runs.
Staten Island had an answer and finally got to Cabezas, scoring two runs in the eighth inning off of three singles and an error. The first run scored when Aguilar singled and the ball got past Rhinesmith in left. Jack Elliot later added a broken bat single to left plating the second run of the inning, cutting the York lead to 7-5. Andrew Gross came in to get the last out of the eighth, retiring Romero on a ground out to second.
Will McAffer came on to start the ninth but allowed a single and a hit by pitch after recording the first out. Tasker Strobel replaced him and surrendered an RBI pitch hit single by Drew Jemison cutting the lead to 7-6, and a two-run double in the right center gap by Garrett Kueber as Staten Island snatched the decisive 8-7 lead.
The Revs went down in order in the bottom of the ninth against Williams Ramirez who notched his second save.
York will look to rebound in a four-game series at High Point beginning Friday night at 6:35 p.m. Revs 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. with Darrell Henry on the call.
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