Let's hear it for the IronPigs, who last night finished off a rain-shortened sweep of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees up in Moosic. (Game 4 of the series will be made up later.) Brian Bass, coming off a complete game win his last outing, was solid for six, then ran into trouble in the 7th. Eddie Bonine, out of the 'pen, failed to pick him up and the Yankees turned the 4-0 lead into a 5-4 deficit. Michael Schwimmer held the Yanks there in the 8th, then in a most improbable 9th, Erik Kratz smacked a two-run homer through the falling rain for a 6-5 lead. Schwimmer came back to finish and he put the heart of the order down, 1-2-3.
These are the kinds of games the IronPigs could never win in their first three years. With last night's win, they are now 25-16, three games ahead of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in the Northern Division and second in all of the International League.
