Sea Dogs Salvage Finale 5-4 in 10

PORTLAND, Maine - The Portland Sea Dogs (41-22) fell behind for the third game in a row, but battled back to salvage the finale of the three-game series with the 5-4 walk-off win over the Bowie Baysox (32-30) in 10 innings Sunday afternoon at Hadlock Field.

Both teams fought to a 2-2 tie after six in a pitcher's duel, but the Baysox plated a pair and took their second lead of the game. Mike Augliera began his seventh inning with a groundout to third, but gave up two singles to the next two hitters.

The righty battled back to get another out on a fly ball to right, but gave up a single to K.D. Kang that plated Chih-Hsien Chiang and ended his day on the mound. Michael Olmsted took over and was greeted by an RBI single off the bat of Niuman Romero and the lead elevated to 4-2 Bowie.

The Baysox's starter Eduardo Rodriguez along with Juan Morillo combined to pitch a scoreless seventh, but
the 'Dogs bounced back against the bullpen in the eighth. Bo Greenwell worked a one-out walk against Morillo, and scored on Derrik Gibson's double to right making it 4-3. Deven Marrero followed and singled home Gibson to tie it at four against the new pitcher Chris Petrini.

Both teams went quietly in the ninth and headed for extras in the Sunday matinee. Olmsted and Miguel Celestino combined to retire the final 10 men in a row before the Sea Dogs hit in the bottom of the 10th.

Jonathan Roof worked a leadoff walk and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Heiker Meneses. Bo Greenwell flied out to center before the Baysox dipped to the bullpen one last time. Fabio Castillo was called upon to retire Gibson, but the centerfielder smacked a single into left field, which scored Roof and sent the Sea Dogs to the 5-4 win.

Celestino (1-2) earned his first win of the season with two perfect innings of relief. Petrini (2-2) took the loss for the Baysox allowing the one run in two and one-third innings.

Bowie followed suit in the series and jumped out to an early lead against Augliera and the Sea Dogs. Dariel Alvarez began the inning with a single and David Adams followed with a two-run homer over the Maine Monster, which gave the Sox the 2-0 lead.

Portland began chipping away with run in the bottom half of the inning, thanks to Sean Coyle. The second baseman took a 91 MPH fastball from Eduardo Rodriguez and put it over the centerfield wall to make it 2-1. Jonathan Roof and Heiker Meneses hit back-to-back doubles with two down in the fifth to tie it at 2-2.

The Sea Dogs have a scheduled off day Monday and open up a nine-game road trip Tuesday night at 7:00PM against the Altoona Curve from People's Natural Gas Field. Portland is slated to send LHP Brian Johnson (3-1, 2.04) to the hill and he will face LHP Joely Rodriguez (3-4, 4.08) of the Curve. Radio coverage begins at 6:40 PM on the WPEI U.S. Cellular Sea Dogs Radio Network.