The Result
Sea Dogs - 4 to 3

Sea Dogs - Year-to-Date
24 wins - 28 losses

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

At the end of the Game
1 hit from 4 at-bats - single, 1 x RBI, 1 x walk

Brett's at-bats
First at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Bases empty - two down
(did not hear the pitch sequence)
Ground ball to second base
Out 4-to-3
Second at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runner at first base - two down
(did not hear the pitch sequence)
Walk
Out at second base on a fielder's-choice hit by the next Sea Dogs batter
Third at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runners at first and second base - one down
(did not hear the pitch sequence)
Fly ball into leftfield
Out F7
Fourth at-bat
Lefthanded pitcher
Runner at third base - two down - during the top of the seventh innings, and the runner was the tying run in a 2-to-1 ballgame
Called strike - fast ball - on the outside corner
Foul ball - fast ball - back
Ball - fast ball - "ten inches outside"
"A base hit into rightfield passed the diving second-baseman and the tying run comes in to score"
Single
......and 1 x RBI
Left stranded at the end of the innings
Fifth at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Bases empty - one down
Called strike - mid 90's fast ball - "a generous strike call on the outside corner"
Called strike - breaking ball
Foul ball - "and that is crushed down the rightfield line and it had the distance but was foul by about ten feet"
Ball - breaking ball - below the knees
Line drive but caught by the third-baseman - "Roneberg 'hit that on the screws' but the Mets fielder took one step to his right to make the second out of the innings"
Out F5

Heard during the game
(1) During the bottom of the second innings the Mets had two runners on base with two down - the next batter hit a "looper" into shallow rightfield - Brett came in and "made a run-saving feet-first diving catch to end the inning"
At the end of the game the commentator said that this had been judged "The Catch/Play of the Day"

Email from Brett
N/A

Game Reports
SEA DOGS COME FROM BEHIND TO DEFEAT FIRST PLACE BINGHAMTON
Portland Completes 5-1 Road Trip

Mike O'Keefe homered in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game, then Kenny Perez scored on a David Wright error to give the Portland Sea Dogs a 4-3 come-from-behind victory over the Binghamton Mets.

Perez doubled following O'Keefe's sixth home run of the season in the eighth.
With two outs in the inning, Eric Johnson reached on the Wright error and Perez scored from second base.

All nine Sea Dogs starters hit safely and all 10 Sea Dogs who played reached base safely.

Jesus Medrano and Brett Roneberg knocked in a run each for Portland (24-28).

Joe Nelson recorded the final five outs for his league-leading 11th save.

Ryan Larson, who was called up from Single-A Sarasota on Monday, earned the win in relief.

The Sea Dogs concluded a 5-1 road trip with the win and snapped Binghamton's string of seven consecutive series won.

Mets Drop Portland Series Finale 4-3

The Mets left 14 runners on base and failed to hold a pair of leads in a 4-3 loss to Portland Thursday.

David Wright's throwing error from third base on Eric Johnson's ground ball in the eighth inning allowed Kenny Perez to score the go-ahead run.

Porland had tied the game 3-3 on Mike O'Keefe's solo homer, also in the eighth.

Mets reliever Blake McGinley (4-1) took the loss after allowing three runs in two innings.
He allowed the Sea Dogs to tie the game on a two-out single scoring Johnson, who had walked, in the seventh.

Mets starter Jason Scobie gave up just one run in six innings.

The Mets scored twice in the first as both Wayne Lydon and Angel Pagan walked and scored on hits by Wright and Prentice Redman.

After surrendering a 2-1 lead in the seventh, the Mets went back in front when Wright led bottom of the inning with a double and scored on a two-out infield single by David Bacani.

The Mets had baserunners on in every inning but the last.

Every starter on each team, except Mets DH Ron Acuna, had at least one hit.

The Mets (33-19) split the rain-shortened two-game series with Portland.

Eastern League Game Summary - Portland at Binghamton

Mike O'Keefe homered in the bottom of the eighth to tie the game, then Kenny Perez scored on a David Wright error to give the Portland Sea Dogs a 4-3 come-from-behind victory over the Binghamton Mets.

Perez doubled following O'Keefe's sixth home run of the season in the eighth.
With two outs in the inning, Eric Johnson reached on the Wright error and Perez scored from second base.

Nine of the ten batters for Portland recorded at least one hit.

Jesus Medrano and Brett Roneberg knocked in a run apiece for Portland (24-28).

Ryan Larson earned his first win of the season.
Larson (1-0) allowed two hits and struck out one in 2/3rds of an inning pitched.

Joe Nelson recorded his 11th save of the year by pitching 1 2/3rd scoreless innings.

Binghamton's Blake McGinley lost his first game of the season.
McGinley (4-1) surrendered three runs, two earned, on three hits, a walk, and struck out one in two innings of work.

Wright went 2-for-4 with a run scored, a double, and an RBI for Binghamton (33-19).

Sea Dogs end N.Y. trip with a win

The Portland Sea Dogs start Friday night's three-game home stand coming off a win against the division-leading Binghamton Mets.
The Sea Dogs came from behind to beat the Mets 4-to-3 Thursday night.

Mike O'Keefe homered in the bottom of the eighth inning to tie the game.
Kenny Perez followed O'Keefe's shot with a double, then scored from second base on an error by David Wright.

Nine of the ten Sea Dog batters had at least one hit, including Jesus Medrano and Brett Roneberg, who both had one run-driven-in apiece.

Portland has won five out of their last six games.

The Sea Dogs take on the New Hampshire Fisher Cats Friday night at Hadlock Field.

Sea Dogs' patience rewarded

For Portland Sea Dogs Manager Ron Johnson, Thursday morning's game against the Binghamton Mets was an exercise in patience.

First, Johnson had to wait for knuckleballer Charlie Zink to settle down after a rough first inning in which the fleet-footed Mets stole two bases, scored twice and seemed to be on their way to a fifth straight victory over the Sea Dogs.

Then, Johnson had to endure six innings before his hitters finally sustained any offense against a pitching staff that had allowed them just three runs in the previous four games.

After all that waiting, Johnson was rewarded with a 4-3 victory before 4,672 paying customers in a 10:30 a.m. game at NYSEG Stadium.

"Any time you match up against a team like that, you've got to get good pitching," Johnson said of the first-place Mets, who have lost only five of their last 23 games.
"Their pitching staff has totally shut us down. Charlie was able to maintain (a 2-1 deficit) until we finally got some runs."

Trailing 3-2 in the eighth inning, the Sea Dogs scored the eventual winning runs against lefty reliever Blake McGinley.
The rally started when left fielder Mike O'Keefe smashed a 1-2 pitch over the right-field fence for his sixth homer of the season.
Kenny Perez followed with a double to right, but the Mets should have been out of the inning two batters later when Eric Johnson hit a bouncer to third base.
Mets top prospect David Wright short-hopped a throw that first baseman Brett Harper couldn't scoop, and Perez scored from second with the go-ahead run.

"I fielded it cleanly, but I just didn't make a good enough throw," Wright said after committing just his fifth error in 50 starts at third base.
"For some reason, I didn't feel too comfortable in the field all day, and when you don't feel comfortable, the ball finds you."

After scoring twice in the first inning, Binghamton left 14 runners on base and was 1 for 12 with runners in scoring position.

"I felt we weren't ready to play," Mets Manager Ken Oberkfell said.
"Before these early games, we don't hit, we don't take infield, and it's like you've almost got to do something to get these guys ready to play."

The Mets found Zink, in the words of Australian catcher Justin Huber, "bloody frustrating."

They took a 2-0 lead in the first inning mainly because Zink couldn't get his knuckleball in the strike zone.
Wayne Lydon and Angel Pagan each drew a walk, and they were driven home by Wright's single and Prentice Redman's double to left field.

From there, the Mets were thrown off by Zink's deliberate manner.

"With Charlie, you've just got to sit back and watch," Johnson said.
"You don't sweat it. It was an outstanding job by him.
He's given us two great starts on this road trip."