After finishing on the wrong end of a shutout last night, the Portland Sea Dogs blanked the New Hampshire Fisher Cats 3-0 Tuesday night. Stephen Fife (3-2) worked out of a first inning jam and recorded his second quality start of the year to earn the win. Ryan Lavarnway drove in two runs and threw out a couple of New Hampshire base runners to secure the victory.
While the final line for Fife looked solid, it had a rocky start. Anthony Gose led off by reaching on a catcher's interference call in the first inning. He stole second and moved to third on Adeiny Hechavarria's single. Then, Fife caught a break when Gose was nailed trying to score on a ground ball by Darin Mastroianni. The righty responded by getting the next two batters to ground out and end the inning.
Lavarnway helped shut down the next best Fisher Cats scoring threat in the third inning. The Yale product threw out both Gose and Hechavarria trying to steal second base. He then turned around and gave the Sea Dogs a 1-0 lead in the fourth with a sacrifice fly to score Che-Hsuan Lin. After Tim Federowicz added an RBI single to make it 2-0, Lavarnway added some more insurance with his team-leading sixth home run of the year leading off the ninth inning.
B.J. LaMura (2-2) went a season-high eight innings, allowing just seven hits and two runs, but it wasn't enough to top the efforts of Fife, along with Kyle Fernandes and Tommy Hottovy out of Portland's bullpen. Fernandes, threw two scoreless innings, benefiting from a base-running blunder by Moises Sierra to help end the seventh. Hottovy struck out two batters in a perfect ninth inning, to earn his first career save.
The Sea Dogs finish up their series with the Fisher Cats tomorrow with a special 10:35 AM start time. Thursday, the Sea Dogs head to New Britain for a five-game series over four days with the Rock Cats. The team returns to Hadlock Field Tuesday for a three-game series with the Reading Phillies. That night will be the 4th annual "All the Hair You Can Spare" event, allowing fans to donate their hair. For tickets, log on to www.seadogs.com or call 207-879-9500.
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