After a convincing win on Wednesday, the Worcester bats cooled off on Thursday against the Scranton Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, squandering another strong outing by Brandon Walter. The RailRiders went ahead 1-0 right away on Andres Chaparro’s 21st home run in the top of the first and WooSox manager Chad Tracy got ejected in the bottom of the inning for arguing that the opposing pitcher was not on the rubber. Outside of another two hits from the scorching Wilyer Abreu (.447, 8 HR, 21 RBI in the last 13 games), the game was quiet until the bottom of the eighth inning.
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