Juan Carlos Linares Delivers Walk-Off Double for Sweep
Portland, Maine - The Portland Sea Dogs won a pair of games 4-3 Saturday afternoon at Hadlock Field against the first place New Britain Rock Cats. The Sea Dogs completed Friday's suspended game with a 4-3 win and went on to defeat the Rock Cats 4-3 in Saturday's regularly scheduled game. With the wins the Sea Dogs improve to 19-29, while the Rock Cats drop to 28-20 on the season. The Sea Dogs are 7-4 against New Britain this season.
In the completion of Friday's game, New Britain reliever Daniel Turpen walked Reynaldo Rodriguez with the bases loaded to force home Heiker Meneses in the eighth inning to break a 3-3 tie. Turpen (3-2) suffered the loss allowing two runs on five hits in one inning of relief.
The Sea Dogs were down 1-0 after four innings of play when fog suspended the game on Friday evening. Portland starter Chris Balcom-Miller pitched four solid innings allowing just one run on one hit.
When play resumed on Saturday, Shannon Wilkerson (3-for-5), ripped a double to left-centerfield scoring Meneses to tie the game at one.
The Sea Dogs took a 2-1 lead in the seventh when Rodriguez singled to left to score Hazelbaker.
Chris Colabello blasted a two run homer off Aaron Kurcz in the eighth to give the Rock Cats a 3-2 lead.
Portland responded with two runs in the eighth leading to their 18th win of the season. Kurcz (1-2) earned his first Double-A win in the effort.
In Saturday's regularly scheduled game, a seven inning contest, Juan Carlos Linares delivered a two out double in the bottom of the seventh to score Jeremy Hazelbaker off Luis Perdomo (3-3) to lift the Sea Dogs to a 4-3 walk-off win.
Red Sox top pitching prospect Anthony Ranaudo made his Hadlock Field debut in Saturday's regularly scheduled game. Ranaudo walked a batter and hit a batter in the first leading to a three run homer off the bat of Evan Bigley, his third of the year.
After the first inning Ranaudo fired five shutout innings. He held the Rock Cats to just two hits over six innings of work. He notched four strikeouts and walked five.
Jayson Hernandez plated three runs with a bases loaded double in the fourth off Steve Hirschfield to tie the game.
Josh Fields (1-1) earned his first win of the season tossing a perfect seventh frame.
Zach Gentile hit safely in both games to extend his hit streak to a team high ten games.
Hernandez who appeared in just his third and fourth games of the season, made the most of his playing time with a 2-for-4 performance in the completion of the suspended game and a three run double in the regularly scheduled affair.
The two clubs will continue the series Sunday afternoon at 1:00 PM. Portland will send lefty Chris Martin (3-3, 4.86) to the mound. New Britain will counter with south paw Logan Darnell (5-2, 4.53). Tickets are available and can be ordered by calling the Sea Dogs Ticket Office at 207-874-9300 or online at www.seadogs.com.
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