The Result
Senators - 6 to 5

Sea Dogs - Year-to-Date
10 wins - 15 losses

Brett's Position and the Batting Order
Playing rightfield
Batting #3

At the end of the Game
1 hit from 5 at-bats - home run, 3 x RBI's, 1 x run scored, 1 x strike out

Brett's at-bats
First at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runner at second base - one down
Foul ball
(radio then stopped and when it re-connected the count was '1 ball-2 strikes')
Foul ball
Ball - low - "and Brett checked his swing"
Ground ball towards second base
Out 4-to-3
......and the runner advanced to third base
Second at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runners at first and second base - two down
Ball - curve ball - high
Drove the ball into leftfield - "and the fielder is going back, back, back......and it's gone!!! - Roneberg hits a three-run opposite-field shot which just cleared the fence in leftfield"
HOME RUN
......and 3 x RBI's!!! (click here for all the home run details)
Third at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runner at first base - two down
Ball - fast ball - low
Ball - high
Hit towards second base - "...and he might have broken his bat on that one"
Out 4-to-3
Fourth at-bat
Lefthanded pitcher
Runner at second base - one down
Ball - outside
Ground ball towards first base
Out PO3
......and the runner advanced to third base
Fifth at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runner at third base - one down
Top of the ninth innings, and the Sea Dogs were trailing 6-to-5 with the tying run at third base!!!
Swing&miss - breaking ball
Ball - breaking ball - low
Ball - breaking ball - high - "...and that looked pretty close"
Called strike - "on the outside corner and it appeared to be off the plate"
Swing&miss - "Roneberg chased a fast ball which was up and out of the zone"
Strike out

Heard during the game
(1) As Brett came in for his first at-bat, the commentator said that "Brett has a eight game hitting streak and this is the longest by a Sea Dog this season and during the streak he has gone 11-from-33 for a 0.333 average"

(2) Coming in for his second at-bat with a runner at second base and two down for the Sea Dogs, the commentator said that "Brett has done well in these situations with an average of 0.321 when batting with runners in scoring position"
He then hit his three-run shot!!!

Email from Brett
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Game Reports
Sea Dogs give away the sweep

He talked of making the routine plays, which the Sea Dogs did not do Wednesday.
Then he talked of failing to create opportunities on offense, which the Sea Dogs again did not do.

And after all of that, Portland Manager Ron Johnson smiled and talked about moving on to Akron, leaving behind a 6-5 loss to the Harrisburg Senators in the finale of a three-game series in which the Sea Dogs received three solid starts and came away with two victories.

Had they managed to hold leads of 3-0 and 5-4 Wednesday, the Sea Dogs would have swept the Senators for the first time since 1995.
As it was, the Sea Dogs (10-15) left here for a four-game series in Akron having won six of their last nine games.

"We made some mistakes today," Johnson said.
"We made some errors and they cost us. We just didn't defend the routine play very well.
"(Harrisburg) is not going to continue to hit .200. If you open the door and give them a little momentum . . . they took advantage of it.
"You have to be happy you took two out of three and move on to the next series."

The Sea Dogs appeared headed toward another victory for much of Wednesday's game.
Brett Roneberg's three-run homer in the third inning off Justin Echols gave them a 3-0 lead, and starter Josh Stevens cruised through five innings, allowing just one hit.

"We had momentum early, but we really couldn't create anything offensively," Johnson said.
"We had the three runs off Roneberg's home run, but we only had three hits (after six innings)."

The Senators (10-15) rallied for four runs in the sixth, starting with Salomon Manriquez's leadoff homer that ended Portland's shutout streak at 22 1/3 innings against Harrisburg.
"He threw me two change-ups that I swung at," Manriquez said. "After that, I thought he'd throw me a fastball."
Instead, Stevens hung an 0-2 curveball and Manriquez lined it over the left-field wall near the foul pole.
Danny Rombley followed with a single and Josh Labandeira reached on a throwing error by third baseman John Hattig.
Both scored when Melvin Dorta lined a double to left-center, and Dorta scored on Dominick Ambrosini's ground single to left.

Mike Campo's sacrifice fly in the seventh tied the score at 4 before Hattig's leadoff homer in the eighth off David Maust (1-0) gave Portland a brief 5-4 lead.

The Senators rallied in the bottom of the eighth to regain the lead off Jason Howell (1-2), the second of three Portland pitchers.
Larry Broadway tied the score when he launched Howell's first pitch of the inning over the wall in right-center.
Eric Storey then reached base on a grounder that handcuffed shortstop Raul Nieves, jamming his right index finger and forcing him from the game.
Juan Camilo, a pinch runner for Storey, moved to second on Rich Lane's sacrifice, which led to Howell's exit.
Charley Weatherby then retired Pedro Liriano on a grounder to second baseman Jesus Medrano for the second out, but left a 2-2 slider over the outside corner to Manriquez, who lined the pitch into right field to score Camilo with the go-ahead run.

"It's a game of momentum, and we couldn't control it today," Johnson said.
"We opened the floodgates in the sixth. If we defended the routine play, we win the ballgame 5-2, but we couldn't do that today."

NOTES
Stevens threw first-pitch strikes to 21 of the 23 batters he faced.
Medrano had his second three-hit game of the series and sixth of the season.

Catcher's blast ends Senators' 22-1/3 inning scoreless streak

The baseball season is all of 4 weeks old and Salomon Manriquez already has made stops in Savannah, Ga.; Viera, Fla.; and Harrisburg.
And those have been just for the home games.
The 21-year-old catcher has been moved around as much as any player in the Montreal Expos' minor-league system through the first month of the season.
He joined the Senators last week only because backup catcher Jason Brown went on the disabled list.
Through five games, he had only two at-bats in Class AA.
Yesterday brought four more at-bats and two of them were critical to the Senators' 6-5 victory over the Portland Sea Dogs before 3,373 at Commerce Bank Park.

Manriquez, the newest Senator, conquered the team's oldest problem -- hitting.
He accounted for Harrisburg's first run with a homer in the sixth inning and its final, game-winning run with a single in the eighth.
Both two-strike hits came with the Senators, desperate for a victory, trailing.

And both led the Senators (10-15) to their fourth victory in 15 games, moving them past Reading and out of last place in the Eastern League's Southern Division.

The Sea Dogs (10-15) were easing their way to their first sweep of the Senators since 1995.
Brett Roneberg's three-run homer off Justin Echols in the third inning gave them a 3-0 lead and Josh Stevens gave the Senators a string of zeros through the fifth.

That changed in the sixth.
After Stevens retired 14 straight batters, Manriquez started the sixth by hooking an 0-2 curveball over the left-field wall for the Senators' first run in 22-1/3 innings.
"He threw me two change-ups that I swung at," Manriquez said. "After that, I thought he'd throw a fastball."
Instead, Stevens threw a curveball and Manriquez drilled it.

Three more runs followed.
Danny Rombley followed Manriquez's homer with a single to right, promptly stealing second and moving to third when third baseman John Hattig threw high to first on Josh Labandeira's grounder.
Both scored two pitches later as Melvin Dorta doubled to left-center, tying the score at 3.
The score stayed tied for two pitches before Dominick Ambrosini grounded a single into left field to score Dorta.

Portland tied the score at 4 in the seventh inning on Mike Campo's sacrifice fly off David Maust (1-0) and untied it in the eighth on Hattig's leadoff homer to left-center off Maust.

Then the Senators did something they had not done on 12 previous occasions - They won a game when trailing after seven innings.
Larry Broadway started the eighth by pulverizing the first pitch from Jason Howell (1-2), an arcing drive that easily cleared the wall in right-center to tie the score at 5.
Eric Storey then reached safely as Raul Nieves could not handle a grounder to short.
Pinch-runner Juan Camilo moved to second on Rich Lane's sacrifice bunt and Charley Weatherby replaced Howell.
Weatherby retired Pedro Liriano on a grounder that moved Camilo to third before Manriquez lined a 2-2 slider into right field to score Camilo with the go-ahead run.

"I was thinking, 'Put the ball in play,'" Manriquez said.
Manriquez also left manager Dave Machemer thinking he needs to find ways to keep him into the lineup.
"He opened up some eyes," Machemer said.
"We were looking for a spark and today it was [Manriquez] and Dorta.
"This was a big one to win after we went down [3-0]. ... We're busting our tails every day and we needed something good to happen -- and it did."

NOTES
The sixth-inning rally came moments after hitting coach Rob Ducey was ejected for arguing balls and strikes with umpires Brandon Cooper and Art Stewart, with whom the Senators had problems throughout the series.
Manriquez's homer was the Senators' first run since Broadway's two-out, first-inning homer in Monday's series opener. The scoreless streak was the third longest since Harrisburg rejoined the EL in 1987.
Manriquez is batting .333 with two homers and three RBIs between Harrisburg and the Expos' Class A affiliates in Savannah and Brevard County, Fla.
He also threw out two runners trying to steal second base yesterday with those throws being timed in a Brian Schneider-like 2.04 and 1.99 seconds.
Chris Schroder dodged Jesus Medrano's leadoff double in the ninth before finishing with his third save.
Two of those saves came in the only victories during the Senators' seven-game homestand.
Echols' eight strikeouts tied him with Shawn Hill for the most by a Senators pitcher this season.

SEA DOGS FALL SHORT IN HARRISBURG

Solomon Manriquez stroked a single that plated Juan Camilo with the winning run in the eighth inning as the Harrisburg Senators rallied to beat the Portland Sea Dogs, 6-5, on Wednesday.

Manriquez finished 2-for-4, including his first homer, and two RBI to lead Harrisburg.

Camilo pinch ran for Eric Storey who reached first on an error by the shortstop.

David Maust (1-0) picked up his first victory after throwing two innings in relief.
He allowed one earned run on two hits and struck out one batter.

Chris Schroder gave up one hit and struck out one to pick up his third save of the year.

Jason Howell (1-2) was touched up for two hits and two runs, one earned, in two innings to take the loss for Portland.

Larry Broadway hit his fourth homer on the year, a solo shot that tied the game at five in the eighth.

Melvin Dorta knocked in two runs for Harrisburg on two hits, including a double.

Brett Roneberg got the scoring started for Portland with a three-run blast in the third inning.
It was his third on the year.

Harrisburg (10-15) travels to Erie tomorrow while Portland (10-15) will head to Akron.

Senators Comeback and Win

The Harrisburg Senators came from behind twice and escaped with a 6-5 win over the Portland Sea Dogs.

The Senators were trailing 3-0 in the sixth when the bats came alive.

Sea Dogs' starter Josh Stevens retired 14 Harrisburg hitters in a row before catcher Salomon Manriquez homered to left.
Three batters later Melvin Dorta tied the game at 3-3 with a two-run double.
Dominick Ambrosini continued the rally with a single to left scoring Dorta and giving Harrisburg a 4-3 lead.

Portland came back with single runs in the seventh and eighth for a 5-4 advantage.

Harrisburg responded in the bottom of the eighth.
Leading off, Larry Broadway connected for his fourth homer of the season.
Later in the inning, Manriquez singled to right bringing home pinch-runner Juan Camilo from third.

Chris Schroder gave up a lead-off double in the top of the ninth, but Jesus Madrano was stranded on third when the game ended.