Doubleheader Deja Vu: First-Place 'Cats Lose Twice On Walk-Off Walks
TRENTON, NJ - The New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Blue Jays) were swept by the Trenton Thunder (Yankees) in a doubleheader Saturday night at ARM & HAMMER Park, losing both games on walk-off walks to see their Eastern Division lead dwindle to 1.5 games. The silver lining: with a loss tonight
TRENTON, NJ - The New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Blue Jays) were swept by the Trenton Thunder (Yankees) in a doubleheader Saturday night at ARM & HAMMER Park, losing both games on walk-off walks to see their Eastern Division lead dwindle to 1.5 games. The silver lining: with a loss tonight by Reading, New Hampshire's postseason magic number has been reduced to eight.
GAME 1
After a scoreless four innings, the Fisher Cats got a solo home run from
New Hampshire tied it in the top of the seventh after Berti singled with two outs and
In extras, the teams traded single runs in the eighth and the 'Cats got one in the ninth, but after a Saez single brought home the placed runner to tie it in the home half, Trenton loaded the bases for
GAME 2
The second game ended just like the first. With the game tied 2-2 in the bottom of the 7th, the Fisher Cats walked the lead-off batter, hit the next guy, saw both runners advance on a sac bunt then intentionally walked the following batter to load the bases with one out.
New Hampshire scored both of their runs in the first, one of which scored on a Panas RBI single.
One of Trenton's two hits was a game-tying two run blast in the bottom of the third courtesy of Caldwell.
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The series concludes tomorrow evening at 5:00 p.m. RHP