Spain’s Homer Not Enough in Friday Loss
MANCHESTER, NH — The New Hampshire Fisher Cats (21-39, 51-77) dropped their second consecutive contest to the Portland Sea Dogs (38-23, 74-56) at Delta Dental Stadium on Friday night, 3-1. Garrett Spain posted New Hampshire’s lone run in the bottom of the ninth with his 11th home run of the
MANCHESTER, NH — The New Hampshire Fisher Cats (21-39, 51-77) dropped their second consecutive contest to the Portland Sea Dogs (38-23, 74-56) at Delta Dental Stadium on Friday night, 3-1. Garrett Spain posted New Hampshire’s lone run in the bottom of the ninth with his 11th home run of the season, a solo fly.
Fisher Cats pitchers tallied 14 strikeouts against Sea Dogs batters in the Friday loss. Starter Abdiel Mendoza (L, 8-11) fell responsible for all three Portland runs behind four strikeouts in four innings. Sea Dogs southpaw Connelly Early (W, 2-2) shined with nine strikeouts in six scoreless innings.
Portland scored all their runs in the top of the fifth. Alex Binelas and Blaze Jordan worked in tandem with back-to-back doubles off Mendoza to score the game’s first run. Max Ferguson singled and an ensuing walk to Elih Marrero ended Mendoza’s night. Right-hander Hunter Gregory slung a wild pitch to plate Jordan and stretch the Sea Dogs lead to 2-0. Ferguson crossed home on a sacrifice fly from Mikey Romero to move the score to 3-0.
Gregory ended the inning with a strikeout and struck out the side in a scoreless sixth inning to finish with four punchouts. Reliever Anders Tolhurst fired a scoreless pair of innings and struck out five batters. Fellow righty Andrew Bechtold finished the effort with a strikeout in a scoreless ninth.
New Hampshire’s Dasan Brown finished the game 1-for-2 with a double, hit-by-pitch and a walk. Designated hitter Ryan McCarty singled twice in a 2-for-4 night.
Saturday, September 7 is the final 20th Anniversary Celebration of the season, which features a replica 2018 Eastern League championship ring giveaway, presented by Northeast Delta Dental. Fisher Cats RHP Michael Dominguez (2-6, 4.15 ERA) toes the rubber against Portland’s David Sandlin (0-2, 6.97 ERA) with a 6:35 PM EDT first pitch.
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The New Hampshire Fisher Cats are the Double-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays and play their games at Delta Dental Stadium in Manchester. Over 155 former Fisher Cats have reached the Major League level. The Fisher Cats have raised millions of dollars for various charities through the Fisher Cats Foundation and continuously strive to improve the quality of life for Granite State residents. The organization has been recognized as New Hampshire Business Review’s “Best Sporting Event to Take Clients to”, Parenting New Hampshire Magazine’s “New Hampshire’s Favorite Sporting Event for Families”, and New Hampshire Magazine’s “Best New Hampshire Sports Team”. For more information on the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, please visit NHFisherCats.com, call (603) 641-2005, or contact Chris Jared via email at [email protected].