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- Updated: September 21, 2016
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre won plenty of games this season, but it was the 98th victory that officially gave them the title of champions.
The RailRiders captured their first national championship with a 3-1 win over El Paso in the 2016 Gildan Triple-A National Championship Game at AutoZone Park on Tuesday night in Memphis, Tenn.
“Great year, we went through a lot of stuff,” Scranton/Wilkes-Barre manager Al Pedrique said on the broadcast after the win. “This is a normal Triple-A team, but we never gave up. We lost some key players and the team did a great job [to] keep playing. They believed in themselves.”
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Yankees’ No. 19 prospect Jordan Montgomery spun a gem from the mound, Chris Parmelee drove in three and the RailRiders concluded the campaign with an euphoric celebration on the pitcher’s mound.
The title comes after a 91-52 regular season, a sweep in the International League semifinals and a four-game series win over Gwinnett in the Finals, as the club won its second Governors’ …
