Another day, another loss for the York Revolution.

The Newark Bears handed the Revs their 19th defeat of the Atlantic League season on Saturday afternoon, 7-2, at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium in Newark, N.J.

York fell to 7-19 and Newark improved to 17-10. Game 3 of the series is today at 4:05 p.m.

Keoni DeRenne led off the game with a home run to right field, the second first-inning leadoff homer in team history and DeRenne's first of the season.

Newark quickly answered back with three runs in the bottom half of the first.

Carl Everett drove in the tying run on a groundout, and Jay Gibbons smacked a two-run single down the first-base line with two outs to give Newark the lead for good.

The Bears added another run in the second on ex-Rev Ramon Nivar's RBI single to right, and would have scored two if not for Ryan Goleski throwing out Tike Redman -- another former Rev -- at home plate.

The Bears eventually would make it a 5-1 game, though, as Everett came across to score on a wild pitch an inning later.

Tom Collaro launched a long homer to left-center in the fourth inning, his second in as many days, and third of the season, cutting York's deficit to 5-2.

The Bears got that run back, though, in the bottom of the fourth on another RBI hit to right off Nivar's bat, chasing Revs starter Andy Shibilo.

Shibilo (0-1) suffered the loss in his first start, allowing six runs (four earned) on eight hits in 32/3 innings.

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Holliday retired the first eight that he faced in relief of Shibilo until Nivar reached on an error in the seventh inning. That led to an unearned run on Everett's RBI single to left.

Holliday allowed just the one unearned run on two hits in 31/3 innings of work.

Josh Sharpless worked a scoreless eighth for York. Newark's Shawn Chacon (1-1) allowed just two runs on five hits in seven innings for the win.

DeRenne and Collaro each homered and doubled, accounting for four of York's five hits. The only other base hit came on Josh Johnson's seventh inning single.

Oneli Perez and Armando Benitez worked scoreless innings of relief for the Bears to close it out.