EL1 Portland Sea Dogs

Wilson's Gem Leads Portland to 5-2 Win

Published on July 3, 2011 under Eastern League (EL1)
Portland Sea Dogs News Release


Portland, Maine- Alex Wilson tossed seven strong innings leading the Portland Sea Dogs (30-50) to a 5-2 victory over the first place New Hampshire Fisher Cats (47-33) before a sold out crowd of 7,368 fans at Hadlock Field on Sunday night.

The Sea Dogs take three out four games from the Fisher Cats, giving the Sea Dogs their first four game series win at home since the end of April when they took three of four from the Binghamton Mets April 25-28. Portland has now won five of their last six games.

Alex Wilson (7-4) tossed a career high seven innings holding the Fisher Cats to one run on five hits, he did not walk a batter and struck out three to earn his seventh win of the season, tying him for third in the Eastern League. Wilson tossed 6.2 innings of shutout ball before Travis d'Arnaud hit his tenth homer of the year to spoil the shutout. Wilson faced only three batters over the minimum, getting the Fisher Cats to ground into two double plays. He tossed 83 pitches, 55 for strikes. The Eastern League All-Star lowered his ERA to 2.70, fourth in the Eastern League.

d'Arnaud was the only player that seemed to have any success off Wilson, collecting three of the five hits surrendered by Wilson. d'Arnaud singled, doubled, and homered off Wilson.

Portland scored three unearned runs off Tyler Stewart in the second to provide all the offense Wilson would need. Oscar Tejeda singled and Jon Hee reached on an error setting up a RBI single by Mitch Dening to give Portland a 1-0 lead. Hee scored on a double play ball off the bat of Hassan. Chih-Hsien Chiang picked up his 56th RBI, tying him with New Hampshire's Mike McDade for the Eastern League lead, when he doubled to score Dening giving Portland a 3-0 lead.

Stewart (4-4) pitched well for the Fisher Cats but suffers the loss allowing three runs (none earned) on six hits in six innings of work. He retired 11 straight Sea Dogs after the costly second inning.

Portland added two more runs in the seventh with a Will Middlebrooks RBI double and Chiang would score from third on a wild pitch by Clint Everts extending the Portland lead to 5-1.

Kyle Fernandes relieved Wilson in the eighth and surrendered a run when Justin Jackson tripled to score Callix Crabbe. Blake Maxwell entered the game and threw one pitch to get out of the eighth inning jam.

Maxwell returned to pitch a perfect ninth earning his seventh save.

The Portland Sea Dogs head to Binghamton, New York for the start of a nine game/ eight day road trip on Monday, July 4th with a 6:35 PM contest with the Mets. Right-handed pitcher Chris Balcom-Miller (1-3, 3.58) will be on the mound for Portland. Binghamton will counter with righty Jeurys Familia (0-2, 3.35). The road trip will take the Sea Dogs up to the All-Star break. Portland will return home after the break on July 14th for a seven game homestand.

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