Dogs Rally For Fourth Straight Win
Published on May 27, 2007 under Eastern League (EL1)
Portland Sea Dogs News Release
Portland, ME -- Chris Smith tossed 3.1 scoreless innings of relief for his 19th career win in a Sea Dogs uniform and Zach Borowiak drove in two runs, including the go-ahead run with a sixth inning sacrifice fly, as the Portland Sea Dogs rallied for a 6-4 win over the Reading Phillies before a Sunday sellout crowd of 7,368 at Hadlock Field.
Smith (1-2) fanned four to become move into sixth place on the Sea Dogs franchise record book for career wins. He pitched around a bases loaded jam in the sixth inning, fanning Peeter Ramos to end the frame. Smith also worked around a leadoff triple in the seventh inning. The right-hander fanned Mike Costanzo, enduced Chris Coste to pop up and struck out Matt Padgett to end the inning.
Daniel Haigwood fanned eight in 3.2 innings, but was touched for four runs (three earned) on six hits and two walks. Beau Vaughan and Mike James worked scoreless innings of relief to finish the game with James earning his eighth save.
Former Major Leaguer Allan Simpson (0-1) allowed two runs in the sixth inning to suffer the loss. He entered with a 4-3 lead, but with one out, Jay Johnson singled. Simpson then walked Andrew Pinckney, Iggy Suarez and Salvador Paniagua in succession to force in a run, setting up Borowiak's go-ahead sacrifice fly.
Portland added an insurance run in the seventh inning when Jed Lowrie tripled and scored on Jeff Natale's RBI double.
Former Sea Dog Tim McClaskey allowed three runs (two earned) on six hits and two walks with four strikeouts in the start for the Phillies.
Lowrie extended his on-base streak to 26 straight games with a double, triple and walk. It is the longest on-base streak by a Sea Dog this season.
The Sea Dogs look for the four-game sweep on Memorial Day with Clay Buchholz (1-1) facing Heath Totten (2-4) at 1:05 p.m. The game can also be seen live throughout New England on NESN with Eric Frede and the Voice of the Sea Dogs Mike Antonellis with the call.
NOTES: The win was Portland's 499th all-time at Hadlock Field... Salvador Paniagua tripled in the third inning for his first Double-A hit -- it was the fifth career triple in more than 1,100 at-bats for the catcher... Reading pitchers walked seven in the game and have now walked 22 batters in the first three games of the series... Sea Dog relievers have now tossed nine consecutive scoreless innings.
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