SEATTLE — The 2016 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders are well represented this weekend at Safeco Field as the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners prepare for Saturday’s third game of their four-game series.
And not just in the Yankees’ dugout.
The RailRiders, the Yankees’ Triple-A affiliate, went 91-52 in the regular season last year and 7-1 in the playoffs, winning not only the International League pennant but beating the Pacific Coast League’s El Paso Chihuahuas in the Triple-A National Championship.
“This is a special group,” RailRiders manager Al Pedrique told The Times Leader of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., last year after the team won the IL title.