OFFICIAL SEA DOGS GAME WRAP
The Portland Sea Dogs outlasted the Trenton Thunder in a back-and-forth marathon, winning 7-6 in 11 innings Sunday afternoon at Hadlock Field in front of 6,656 fans. The Sea Dogs (60-66) salvage the final game of the three game series.
Jose Iglesias singled in the bottom of the 11th and Matt Sheely scored the game winning run when left-fielder Damon Sublett misplayed the ball. Sheely lead off the 11th inning with an infield single and advanced to second on a throwing error by Rene Rivera to set-up the game winning hit from Iglesias.
Chih-Hsien Chiang doubled in the eighth inning to score Nate Spears and Ryan Khoury and give the Sea Dogs a 5-4 lead entering the ninth inning.
The lead would be short lived as Matt Cusik blasted a home run off Ryne Lawson in the ninth inning to tie the game and send the contest into extra innings.
Trenton would take a 6-5 lead in the 10th inning on a RBI single by Rivera off Daniel Turpen scoring Sublett.
Wilkins Arias would come on to pitch for Trenton in the bottom half of the 10th inning. Arias was greeted by Nate Spears, who smashed his 15th home run of the season into the U.S. Cellular Pavilion to once again knot-up the game.
Daniel Turpen (7-5) pitched a 1-2-3 11th inning to earn the win. Turpen tossed two innings allowing one run on three hits.
Arias (3-2) stayed on in the 11th for Trenton and suffered the loss, yielding two runs on four hits.
Sea Dogs starter Alex Wilson struck out a career high eight batters in five strong innings of work. Wilson surrendered just one hit, a fourth inning lead-off home run to Daniel Brewer, his 10th of the season.
Anthony Rizzo collected his 26th RBI of the August with a RBI single in the seventh. He is just thee RBI’s shy of the franchise record for RBI’s in one month. He leads all Red Sox farm hands with 88 RBI’s this season between Single-A Salem and Double-A Portland.
The Sea Dogs embark on their final road trip of the 2010 season with stops in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Manchester, New Hampshire. The road trip kicks off with 7:00 PM contest Monday evening against the Harrisburg Senators from MetroBank Park in Harrisburg. Blake Maxwell (4-0, 1.69) will get the start for Portland, he’ll be opposed by Brad Peacock (1-1, 4.63). The Sea Dogs return to Hadlock Field for the final time in 2010 on August 30th for an eight game homestand.
Notes: The Sea Dogs tied a season high collecting 18 hits. Iglesias, Ray Chang, and Khoury all had three hit performances for the Sea Dogs.
HIGHLIGHTS COURTESY US CELLULAR SEA DOGS RADIO NETWORK
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