Wagaman's two-out, two-run hit lifts Syracuse Mets past RailRiders 5-4
Wagaman’s two-out, two-run single in the eighth flipped a 5-4 road game at PNC Field and gave Syracuse a lift in a tight series with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
Eric Wagaman turned Syracuse’s toughest inning into its biggest swing, driving a go-ahead two-run single in the eighth as the Mets beat the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders 5-4 at PNC Field in Moosic, Pennsylvania. The hit came with two outs and finished a comeback that started with Syracuse absorbing an early first-inning push from the home club.
That one at-bat changed the tone of a game built on pressure. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre had jumped in front early and spent most of the night trying to protect that edge, but Syracuse kept the margin within reach long enough for the late rally to take shape. When Wagaman came up in the eighth, the Mets needed a clean swing more than a loud one, and he delivered the kind of contact that can quiet a home crowd and hand a road team control of a series game.
The final score mattered beyond one night in Moosic. Syracuse and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre had already spent the week trading extremes, with the Mets winning a 13-inning marathon Tuesday that lasted four hours and 11 minutes and another recent matchup turning into a 13-5 loss for Syracuse. This one was different because it came down to execution in the highest-leverage spot, and Wagaman delivered after the RailRiders had spent much of the night looking like the steadier club.
Wagaman, listed by Minor League Baseball as Syracuse’s No. 39, has bounced through the New York Mets system this season, including a recall to the majors on April 30. That movement is part of the Triple-A backdrop, but Wednesday’s result was about the present tense: a lineup that stayed close enough to keep the game alive and a hitter who ended it with one decisive swing.
For Syracuse, the 5-4 win was the kind of comeback that can travel. Against a Scranton/Wilkes-Barre club that sits on the Yankees’ Triple-A doorstep and can punish mistakes quickly, the Mets found the one late plate appearance that mattered most and walked away with traction in a series that had already veered from marathon to rout to one-run knife fight.
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