ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Interstat) — The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders pounded out 13 hits and defeated the Rochester Red Wings 4-2 in the first game of a doubleheader Friday afternoon at Frontier Field.

The RailRiders scored once in the first inning and added two more in the second, highlighted by Duke Ellis’s RBI single. They added a final run in the fifth. Rochester managed only two hits, scoring single runs in the third and fifth innings.

Zach Messinger earned the win for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, while Mitchell Parker took the loss. Yovanny Cruz secured the save. The RailRiders improved to 2-3, and the Red Wings fell to 3-2. The game took 2 hours, 27 minutes.