Bates powers York past Lexington for first road series win

Austin Bates drove in three runs and York beat Lexington 8-4 at CommonSpirit Ballpark on Sunday afternoon, finishing a four-game winning streak and claiming its first road series victory of the 2026 season. After a 14-4 win Friday and a 6-5 comeback Saturday, the Revolution left Lexington with more than a series win. They left with evidence that their road form may finally be catching up to the record built at WellSpan Park.

York set the tone in the third inning, when Bates cracked a two-run homer for a 2-0 lead. Tomo Otosaka then reached base and swiped his 74th career steal, tying Travis Witherspoon for fourth on the Revolution’s all-time list, before Nick Dunn doubled off the left-field fence to bring in another run. Jacob Teter followed with a two-out RBI single, and a 4-0 lead had already turned the afternoon into a chase for Lexington.

The Legends did not fold. Damiano Palmegiani and Dylan Rock each homered for solo runs, and Curtis Terry added an RBI double to cut York’s lead to 4-3. But the Revolution answered in the sixth, when Bates singled to left for his third RBI of the day and Otosaka added a run-scoring groundout to stretch the margin back to 6-3. That sequence mattered as much as the final score: York did not just hit early, it kept producing after Lexington had shaved the deficit and threatened to swing the game back.

The pitching staff held that edge together. Brandon Peterson worked four innings in his second career start, Jason Bickford escaped trouble in the middle, Jose Lopez picked up the win with a scoreless seventh, and Ryan Shreve plus Josh Mollerus shut the door. Lexington put runners on throughout the game and stranded 12, including at least one in each of the final eight innings, but never got the one clean inning it needed to flip the pressure.

The win pushed York to 42-30, 12 games over .500 for the first time this season, and 7-2 in the second half. The Revolution have won 10 of their last 12 and 14 of their last 19, and the four-game road streak is their longest since a five-game run last July. It also marked the first time York had won four straight in the same road series since the Labor Day weekend sweep at High Point in 2023, a useful marker for a club that entered 2026 as the defending Atlantic League champion and still looks every bit like a North Division force.