As if things couldn’t have started worse for the New York Yankees, in addition to losing 2 of 3 to the Boston Red Sox to start the season, the Scranton/Wilkes Barre RailRiders have lost their first three games to the Boston Red Sox AAA Pawtucket squad and after tonight’s game, a significant grass fire was started after postgame fireworks outside PNC Stadium. New York Yankees minor league beat writer Nicole Sorce in a series of tweets (including photos):

Fireworks at the #RailRiders game started a forest fire behind PNC Field. Wow. #Scranton twitter.com/nicolesorce/st… — Nicole Sorce (@nicolesorce) April 7, 2013

The fire is out at PNC Field. Apparently this happened last night, too. Nobody was injured. #RailRiders #Scranton — Nicole Sorce (@nicolesorce) April 7, 2013

It just hasn’t been a good weekend for the #RailRiders… — Nicole Sorce (@nicolesorce) April 7, 2013

Her last tweet could not have summed it up better (as the big league New York Yankees have lost 2 more and are in the cellar of the AL East at 1-4)

-Dave (@lhd_on_sports)

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