Scott strikes out 12 as York routs Lancaster 12-1

Braden Scott gave York the kind of opening act that can reshape a second-half push, striking out 12 over eight innings as the Revolution rolled past Lancaster 12-1 at WellSpan Park. On a 100-degree night in York, Pennsylvania, Scott allowed one run on 10 hits, walked none and worked 119 pitches while tying the Revs’ single-game record for a left-handed pitcher.

The right-hander’s effort was more than just a power display. Scott reached 100 strikeouts for the season in his 13th start, a pace that placed him among the fastest pitchers in Atlantic League history to that benchmark. He has been piling up outs at a relentless rate, and York has now seen that command translate into a stretch that has the Revs looking more dangerous by the night.

The offense backed him with immediate force once it settled in. York did not score until the fourth, then Jacob Teter launched his 14th homer of the season and Devonte Brown followed with his ninth, both two-run shots to right-center that put the Revs in front 4-0. Lancaster answered only once, when Alan Alonso delivered a run-scoring groundout in the fifth, but that was the Stormers’ lone breakthrough against Scott and a York staff that never let the game drift.

York broke it open in the bottom of the fifth when Jackson Ross hit a three-run homer, turning a tight early game into a runaway. The Revs kept adding in the sixth as Austin Bates doubled in a run, Tomo Otosaka singled home another on a 3-0 green light, and Brian Rey extended his hitting streak to 18 games with a two-run single that pushed him to 60 RBI. York added one more on a wild pitch in the seventh, a fitting cap to an inning-by-inning collapse by Lancaster.

The win gave York a 1-0 start to the Atlantic League’s second half and a fourth straight victory overall, arriving one day after the club celebrated its 700th all-time win at WellSpan Park. That backdrop matters because York has not only been winning, it has been doing so with a formula that travels: frontline pitching that can bury a lineup early, and power bats capable of changing the scoreboard in one swing.