Sea Dogs win in Reading 3-0, 1st shutout of the season

Portland, Maine - The Portland Sea Dogs (8-13) snapped a four-game losing streak, defeating the Reading Fightin Phils (12-7) 3-0 on Friday night at First Energy Stadium, the game lasted just 2 hours and 5 minutes. Portland's pitchers tied a season-high with 14 strikeouts and earned their first shutout of the season.


William Cuevas (3-1) earned his team-leading third win, giving up just 3 hits on one walk and 6 strikeouts over 5 innings. Pat Light earned his second hold with 2 hitless innings and 5 strikeouts.  Dayan Diaz worked around a one-out ripple in the eighth and pitched the final two innings for his second save of the year.


Zach Eflin (2-1) worked a season-high 8 innings, allowing his first 3 runs in Double-A, taking the loss for Reading.


Portland ended Eflin's scoreless streak at 16.2 innings with two runs in the second inning. Oscar Tejeda led off with a single and David Chester followed with a long homer to left. For Chester, it was his second homer of the season, but just the sixth for the team.


The 'Dogs add the final run in the eighth inning off Eflin. Jonathan Roof tripled to center and scored on a sacrifice fly by Luis Martinez.


The Sea Dogs and Reading Fightin Phils play game two of their series tonight, Saturday night at FirstEnergy Stadium in Reading, PA.  First pitch Friday night is scheduled for 6:05 PM.  Justin Haley (0-3, 9.42) is the scheduled starter for Portland, while Tom Windle (0-1, 5.00) gets the nod for the Fightin Phils.  Pre-game coverage begins live at 5:45 PM on the WPEI U.S. Cellular Sea Dogs Radio Network.