EL1 Portland Sea Dogs

Sea Dogs Game Notes

Published on July 16, 2007 under Eastern League (EL1)
Portland Sea Dogs News Release


Portland Sea Dogs (46-43) at New Hampshire Fisher Cats (49-43)

LHP Daniel Haigwood (3-4, 5.04) vs. LHP Kurt Isenberg (3-6, 5.25)

Game #90 - Monday, July 16, 2007 - Merchantsauto.com Stadium - Manchester, NH- 7:05 p.m.

WE MEET AGAIN: The Portland Sea Dogs open up an eight-game roadtrip in seven days, taking on the New Hampshire Fisher Cats in game one of a 3-game set...Portland has played 11 of their previous 22 games against the ‘Cats...The Sea Dogs trail the Fisher Cats by a game and ½ for the second playoff spot in the Eastern League's Northern Division.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE: Justin Masterson (2-0) earned his 2nd win in as many starts yesterday as the Dogs squeaked by the Rock Cats 3-1...Masterson fired 6 shutout innings, allowing 3 hits and striking out seven batters...The Sea Dogs took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the 3rd when Bubba Bell tripled and came home on a wild pitch to the next batter...The Dogs got two more in the 7th, including the game winning RBI by Byran Pritz. Chad Spann doubled to start the 7th inning, Jeff Natale walked, and then Cory Keylor put down a beautiful sacrifice bunt. After the RBI base hit by Pritz, John Otness lifted a sacrifice fly that scored Natale...The bullpen was once again spectacular as Hunter Jones fired two scoreless innings, and Mike James pitched the 9th to collec his 16th save of the year. For James, it was his 10th consecutive save.

NO, NOT THESE 'CATS...THE ROCK CATS: With Saturday's win, Portland is now 6-6 on the season against the Rock Cats...The Dogs took their first series of the season against New Britain and their first series sweep since May 25-28 against Reading at Hadlock Field...This season, Portland is 15-15 against both teams with the name ‘Cats (9-9 vs. NHF, 6-6 vs. NBR).

WE'RE STREAKING: Here's a list of the Sea Dogs winning and losing streaks this year.

3-game losing streak (3): 5/3 to 5/5, 5/21 to 5/23, and 7/6 (DH) to 7/7

4-game losing streak (2): 6/9 to 6/13, and 6/30 to 7/3

5-game losing streak (1): 5/10 to 5/15

3-game winning streak (1): 6/17 to 6/20

5-game winning streak (2): 5/6 to 5/9 and 7/8 to present

6-game winning streak (1): 5/24 to 5/29

WELL DESERVED: Right-hander Clay Buchholz was promoted to Pawtucket during the All- Star break and will get the start for the PawSox on Monday against the Ottawa Lynx at McCoy Stadium...Buchholz leaves the Eastern League as the leader in ERA (1.69) and strikeouts (115).

HADLOCK HAPPENINGS: Portland returns home on July 23 to host the Fisher Cats in a three-game series...The 'Dogs and Defenders play a day/night doubleheader on July 28.

Last Game R H E LOB

New Britain 1 6 1 6

Portland 3 4 0 7

W: Justin Masterson (2-0)

L: Anthony Swarzak (2-3)

SV: Mike James (16)

HR: None

GWRBI: Bryan Pritz

Top Dogs: Masterson (6 IP, 3 H, BB, 7 SO), Jones (2 IP, H, 4 SO), Pritz (1-3, RBI)

'DOGS AT-A-GLANCE

Current Streak: W5

Overall Record: 46-43

Standing: -11.5 GB/3rd

Past Past Series: 3-0

35-game stretch in New England:17-15

Last 5 Games: 5-0

Last 10 Games: 6-4

July Record: 6-6

Series Record H/R: 7-4-1/5-7-2

Series Sweeps by Dogs H/R: 3/0

Series Sweeps by Opp. H/R: 2/0

Series Finales H/R: 8-4/8-6

Rubber Games H/R: 2-0/4-4

Doubleheader Record W-L-S: 2-1-4

2007 Best Mark: 3x, Last, 39-35

2007 Worse Mark: 18-21

All-Time Record: 985-941

All-Time at Home: 511-449

All-Time on Road: 474-492

Red Sox Affiliate: 335-317

Transactions (DL): 39 (1)

Players Used: 38

Beyeler's Career: 406-390

Beyeler with Boston Org.: 189-186

SEA DOGS VS. FISHER CATS

2007 Record (H/R): 9-9 (3-5/6-4)

2006 Record: (H/R): 12-14 (6-6/6-8)

All-Time Record: 47-39

All-Time at Hadlock: 19-19

All-Time at Road: 28-20

All-Time Season Past Series: 1-2-0

*Portland clinched a playoff spot in 2006 by beating the Fisher Cats in Game 1 of a doubleheader on the final day of the season at Hadlock Field - Game 2 was not played...Sea Dogs are 57-35 All-Time against affiliates of the Blue Jays 2007: Portland has won the last two series at Merchantsauto.com Stadium, scoring 17 runs on June 22 and 16 runs on July 8...The 'Dogs are averaging 6.3 runs-per-game in Manchester.

UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS

Tuesday, July 17 at New Hampshire (7:05 p.m) - RHP Michael Bowden (3-4, 5.11) vs. LHP Ricky Romero (0-2, 4.33)

Wednesday, July 18 at New Hampshire (7:05 p.m) - RHP Chris Smith (3-4, 2.88) vs. RHP Ismael Ramirez (1-1, 4.87)

Thursday, July 19 at Binghamton (7:05 p.m) - RHP Charlie Zink (9-3, 2.89) vs. TBA

Friday, July 20 at Binghamton (5:35 p.m - Doubleheader) - RHP Justin Masterson (2-0, 0.00) vs. TBA (Game 1)

All Games Broadcast on AM-1490 WBAE/AM-1400 WVAE and the U.S. Cellular Sea Dogs Radio Network - online at www.seadogs.com Play-by-play: Mike Antonellis/Studio Host: Mike Snow (20-minute pre-game show at Hadlock/25 minute pre-game show on the road)

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