The Tri-City ValleyCats dipped a game under the .500 mark following a 7-1 loss to the host Aberdeen IronBirds on Tuesday in a New York-Penn League baseball contest in Aberdeen, Md.

Third baseman Willy Yahn was 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs and first baseman J.C. Escarra was 2-for-4 with a double and three RBIs to lead Aberdeen, which climbed to 2-3 on the young season.

Yahn put the IronBirds in front in the second inning with a two-run double to right field to bring home Robert Neustrom and Alexis Torres. Aberdeen added two more runs in the third when Escarra ripped a two-run double of his own to make it 4-0.

Luis Encarnacion put the ValleyCats on the board in the sixth with a sacrifice fly, but the IronBirds answered with three more runs in the bottom-half of the sixth to grab a 7-1 advantage and put the game away. Robbie Thorburn and Randolph Gassaway keyed the inning with RBI singles for Aberdeen.

Seth Beer was 2-for-3 for Tri-City (2-3), which will close out its three-game series against the IronBirds on Wednesday.

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IRONBIRDS 7, VALLEYCATS 1

TRI-CITY

ab r h rbi

Pena ss 4 1 1 0

Beer lf 3 0 2 0

Encrncion 1b 2 0 0 1

Carrillo 1b 1 0 1 0

Wielansky 2b 4 0 1 0

Rodriguez cf 4 0 1 0

Celestino rf 3 0 0 0

Costes dh 3 0 0 0

Pineda 3b 3 0 1 0

Holderbach c 3 0 0 0

Totals 30 1 7 1

ABERDEEN

ab r h rbi

Ring cf 4 0 0 0

Hall ss 4 1 0 0

Gassaway dh 4 1 2 1

Xu dh 1 0 0 0

Escarra 1b 4 0 2 3

Neustrom rf 3 1 0 0

Torres 2b 4 1 1 0

Yahn 3b 4 1 3 2

Gonzalez c 4 1 3 0

Thorburn lf 4 1 1 0

Totals 36 7 12 6

Tri-City 000 001 000 — 1 7 2

Aberdeen 022 003 00x — 7 12 0

E—Celestino (1), Encarnacion (1). DP—Aberdeen 2. LOB—Tri-City 5, Aberdeen 8. 2B—Yahn (1), Escarra (1). SF—Encarnacion.

Tri-City

IP H R ER BB SO

Tejada (L, 0-1) 3 5 4 4 1 2

Garcia 2 2 0 0 1 3

Cabral1/34 3 3 1 1

Castellanos 12/31 0 0 0 1

Hansen 1 0 0 0 0 3

Aberdeen

IP H R ER BB SO

Rios 4 2 0 0 0 2

Diaz (W, 1-0) 12/3 2 1 1 0 1

Matson 11/3 0 0 0 0 2

Vichio 2 3 0 0 0 1

HBP—by Rios 2 (Celestino, Beer). PB—Gonzalez (1). T—2:59. A—2,333.