'Dogs lose 6-5
Published on June 23, 2007 under Eastern League (EL1)
Portland Sea Dogs News Release
(Manchester, NH) - For the second time in three nights, the Sea Dogs lost a 5-0 lead, suffering a 6-5 loss to the Fisher Cats on Saturday night at Merchantsauto.com Stadium. Portland is now 3-3 on their 8-game roadtrip with all three losses decided by one run.
Portland led 5-0 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning but Ryan Patterson put the Fisher Cats on the board with a 2-run homer off Daniel Haigwood. Aaron Mathews followed with a walk, ending the night for Haigwood. Chip Cannon greeted Barry Hertzler with a 2-run homer over the centerfield wall on a 3-1 pitch.
In the eighth inning, Hertzler yielded a one-out single to Aaron Mathews and was relieved by Andrew Dobies (3-2) to face Cannon. On the second pitch, Cannon blasted a towering a two-run homer to right field.
Seth Overbey (1-0) worked two scoreless innings of relief to earn the win and Tracy Thorpe recorded his second save of the season with a perfect ninth.
Dobies took the loss, allowing two hits and one run in just 2/3 of an inning.
Portland took an early 1-0 lead on Andrew Pinckney's lead-off homer in the fourth inning off Orlando Trias. With two outs, Dusty Brown doubled and scored on Eric Crozier's 2-run blast to right-center field.
Crozier added a solo homer in the sixth inning and finished 3-for-3, 2 HR and 3 RBI. Jay Johnson had 3 hits and knocked in Portland's fourth run with a single in the fifth inning.
Haigwood worked 5 and 1/3 innings allowing four hits, three runs, four walks and five strikeouts. The lefty retired 12 of 14 batters to start the game before wiggling out of a bases loaded jam in the fifth.
Portland has lost 10 straight games when decided by a final at-bat on the road and their bullpen suffered their 12th loss away from Hadlock Field.
The series is tied at one game apiece and continues on Sunday afternoon with a 1:05 p.m. start at Merchantsauto.com Stadium. Knuckleballer Charlie Zink (6-2, 2.21) takes on Lefty Kurt Isenberg (2-3, 4.73) in game three of the series.
Allied Home Mortgage Big Dog of the Game - Eric Crozier.
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