Riley McGinley vs. Scranton 3/29/18
Wyatt Eaton
3
Scranton SCR 7-6, 2-2 Landmark
5
Winner Elizabethtown ETOWN 5-9, 2-2 Landmark
Scranton SCR
7-6, 2-2 Landmark
3
Final
5
Elizabethtown ETOWN
5-9, 2-2 Landmark
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Scranton SCR 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 12 2
Elizabethtown ETOWN 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 X 5 9 0

W: Garvey, Mike (1-3) L: Brian Markowski (2-2) S: Lippy, Anthony (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Blue Jays make early lead stand up against Scranton

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. -- Elizabethtown never relinquished the three-run lead it built in the second inning on Thursday, evening its Landmark record with a 5-3 victory over Scranton at Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium.

The Royals outhit the Blue Jays 12-9, but stellar defense from the hosts throughout the afternoon kept Scranton from being able to build momentum.

E-town starting pitcher Mike Garvey allowed a lead-off single to Tommy Trotter, but snared a line drive from the very next batter, Justin Howell, and doubled off Trotter at first. Garvey also started a 1-6-3 double play in the third and clasped Chase Standen's comebacker to retire the Royals in the fifth.

A quick start to the second for the Blue Jays put them on top to stay. Anthony Knight worked a seven-pitch walk, Nick Lorenz followed with a single and James Kantner laid down a perfect bunt to load the bases with no outs.

Elizabethtown collected the game's first run on a Riley McGinley RBI groundout and Derek Manning's two-out, two-run single extended the Blue Jays' lead to 3-0.

Scranton (7-6, 2-2 Landmark) climbed within 3-2 in the third when Kevin Haag tagged the first pitch he saw from Garvey over the right field wall.

The Blue Jays (5-9, 2-2) answered with a run in the third on a Lorenz single that plated Knight, but the Royals made it a one-run game again in the fourth.

Elizabethtown went up a pair of runs on a wacky play in the eighth. Kantner hit a ball to first, but Royals reliever Bobby Hegarty seemed to pull his glove away too quickly on the toss from first baseman Ian McIntosh a split second before Hegarty and Kantner made contact. With the ball and Hegarty laying on the dirt, Knight raced home with his third run of the game.

Garvey turned the game over to E-town's bullpen in the sixth and it came through. Kelly Holdren pitched two scoreless innings with a strikeout and Anthony Lippy also fired two shutout frames for his first career save.

Scranton threatened with runners on the corners in the eighth, but Lippy got Patrick Mergel to ground to first baseman Brennan Snyder on the first pitch to end the inning.

Garvey struck out two and gave up three runs in five innings for his first win of the season.

Lorenz led the Jays' offense with three hits (3-for-4), while Kantner, Knight and Manning all had two hits. Manning, who was 2-for-2 with a double and twice hit by pitches, raised his Landmark-leading batting average to .463.

Haag matched E-town's Lorenz with a game-high three hits for Scranton. McIntosh, Mergel and Connor Harding totaled two hits each. Starting pitcher Brian Markowski took the loss by allowing four runs (two earned) on six hits and walking four in 4.1 innings.

E-town and Scranton will wrap up their Landmark series with a doubleheader on Monday, April 2, beginning at 12:30 p.m.

Before that, however, the Blue Jays will make up a game with Swarthmore that was originally scheduled for Feb. 24. The two teams will meet at Kevin Scott Boyd Stadium on Friday at 3 p.m.
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