EL1 Portland Sea Dogs

Mickey Hall hits his 13th home run in the loss

Published on August 21, 2008 under Eastern League (EL1)
Portland Sea Dogs News Release


(Altoona, PA) - Kyle Bloom (5-7) retired 21 of 23 batters over seven scoreless innings, aiding the Altoona Curve (60-72) to a 4-3 victory over the Portland Sea Dogs (69-59) in the series finale on Thursday night at Blair County Ballpark. The Sea Dogs dropped two of three to the Curve and travel to Harrisburg on Friday night.

Bloom earned his first victory at home in 2008 and his third straight win overall. Portland had two hits off Bloom - both with two outs. Juan Apodaca (2-for-3, RS) singled in the third and Josh Reddick (2-for-3, RS) doubled in the fifth.

Ryne Lawson (1-1) gave up four hits and three runs over five innings to take his first loss of the year with Portland. The righty issued three walks, hit a batter and fanned four.

Portland rallied for three runs in the eighth inning off Altoona lefty Josh Shortslef. Reddick and Apodaca set the table with singles, giving Portland just their second at-bat with a runner-in-scoring position all night. Mickey Hall cracked a 3-run homer over the right-field wall, cutting the deficit to 4-3. Shortslef closed out the game by pitching a perfect ninth inning, retiring Zach Daeges, Aaron Bates and Lars Anderson (0-for-4, 3 SO).

Angel Gonzalez knocked in the first run of the game with a bloop-double down the left field line, scoring Jonel Pacheco in the second inning. In the third, Shelby Ford singled, Jose Tabata walked and Jim Negrych executed a sacrifice-bunt. Jamie Romak clubbed a 2-run double inside the third-base bag to give Altoona a 3-0 advantage. The Curve added the game's final run in the seventh inning on Negrych's run-scoring double off Miguel Asencio.

T.J. Large and Daniel Haigwood worked scoreless frames for Portland in relief. The Sea Dogs lost two 1-run games in the series and fall to 36-33 on the road.

Portland will travel to Harrisburg on Friday night to meet the Senators in game one of a weekend series. LHP Dustin Richardson (7-7, 7.03) takes on RHP Jordan Zimmermann (6-2, 3.32). Catch all the action on the U.S. Cellular Sea Dogs Radio Network beginning at 6:10 PM - first pitch is 6:35 PM.

Notes...Lars Anderson had his on-base streak snapped at 19 games...Mickey Hall ties Bubba Bell for the team lead in home runs...Clay Buchholz joined the Sea Dogs before the game but was not added to the active roster...Juan Apodaca picked up his first multi-hit game.

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