The Sea Dogs end a five-game losing streak in style, erasing a 5-1 deficit in the seventh inning, scoring six times, en route to a 8-5 win over the New Britain Rock Cats on Saturday night at New Britain Stadium. Portland looks for the series victory in the rubber game of the series on Sunday afternoon.
Portland sent 12 men to the plate in the seventh, receiving the go-ahead RBI from Luis Exposito on a bases-loaded single. Nate Spears and Ray Chang drove in two runs apiece during the rally to tie the game at five. New Britain committed three errors in the innings, two by left-fielder Marc Dolenc.
Santo Luis (5-1) worked 2.1 innings on one hit and three strikeouts to pick up his team-leading fifth win. Cole Devries (1-4) yielded four hits and two runs over 2/3 of an inning to suffer the loss for New Britain.
Bryce Cox entered the game in the eighth inning and recorded the final five outs to notch his ninth save of the season.
Lin and Spears each had three hits for the Sea Dogs, who received a hit from eight of nine starters, but the entire lineup reach base safely. Anthony Rizzo knocked in two runs with a double and a sacrifice fly, and has hit safely in 10 of his last 11 starts.
For the second straight night, the Rock Cats scored first, plating three off Casey Kelly (ND, 5 IP, 6 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 0 BB, 6 SO) in the second inning. Joe Benson tripled with one out and scored on a wild pitch. Steve Singleton followed with a double, advanced to third base on Kelly’s second wild pitch of the inning, and scored on Dolenc’s RBI ground out. Yancarlos Ortiz knocked in his fifth run of the season with a two-out single to right field.
Portland grabbed a run in the third inning when Spears singled home Lin, who led off the inning with a double.
New Britain answered with a run in the fourth inning on a lead-off homer by Singleton, and Benson produced a run-scoring fielder’s choice in the fifth inning. The Sea Dogs committed two errors in the fifth, which made the run unearned. Rock Cats' starter Deolis Guerra took a no-decision, surrendering eight hits and five runs over 6.2 innings pitched.
The Sea Dogs and Rock Cats conclude their three-game series on Sunday afternoon beginning at 1:35.
--Courtesy Mike Antonellis via Sea Dogs Communications--
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