The Result
Sea Dogs - 9 to 5

Sea Dogs - Year-to-Date
40 wins - 45 losses

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

Following a player ejection, Brett moved to first base from the bottom of the seventh innings

At the end of the Game
2 hits from 6 at-bats - single, double, 1 x RBI, 1 x run scored, 2 x strike outs

Brett's at-bats
First at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runner at second base - one down
Called strike - fast ball
Swing&miss - change-up - "and Roneberg was out in front ...... a good pitch"
Ball - fast ball - low
Swing&miss - fast ball
Strike out
Second at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runner at first base - one down
"And that is ripped into right-centrefield and goes all the way to the wall"
Double
......and 1 x RBI
Advanced to third base on a wild pitch
Left stranded at the end of the innings
Third at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Bases empty - one down
Called strike - curve ball - on the outside corner
Foul ball - on the first base side
Swing&miss - change-up
The commentator said that was a great pitching sequence - "an unhittable curve, then a high strike which Roneberg fouled off, followed by a perfect change-up"
Strike out
Fourth at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runners at first and second base - two down
Ball - low - and the runner at first stole to second base
Called strike - fast ball
Called strike - fast ball - on the outside corner
Ball - low and away
Foul ball - change-up - down the first base line
"And that is absolutely crushed to deep centrefield ...... but the wind is holding it up and it will stay in the yard ...... Brett hit that about as far as you can and it's caught in front of the 407' sign ...... that is a home run in any ballpark in the League"
Out F8
Fifth at-bat
Lefthanded pitcher
Bases empty - two down
Ball - breaking ball - "a little bit low"
Swing&miss - fast ball
Called strike
Ball - "and Roneberg checked his swing on a breaking ball which looked very good ...... maybe a little bit low"
Ball - breaking ball - low and away
A "three hopper" to the Thunder shortstop
Out 6-to-3
Sixth at-bat
Top of the eleventh inning!!!
Score tied at 5-all!!!
???handed pitcher
Bases empty - one down
Ball - down and in
Called strike
Called strike - change-up
Foul ball - breaking ball - into the ground
Ball - high and away
Grounded through the rightside for a base hit - "and that was a soft-grounder and with the first-baseman guarding the line it snuck through but with a normal fielding alignment it would have been an out"
Single
Went to third base on a hit
Scored on a hit

Heard during the game
(1) When Brett came in for his first at-bat, there was a runner at second base - the commentator said "Brett is currently batting 0.310 with runners in scoring position"

(2) When Brett was at second base during his second at-bat, one of the following Sea Dogs batters hit a deep fly - the commentator said "Brett is halfway between second and third and now has to retreat to second base ...... 'maybe' if he tagged he would have been able to advance to third base"

Email from Brett
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Game Reports
Sea Dogs blow three leads before rallying in the 11th

Joe Kilburg delivered a bases-loaded double into the right-field corner off Trenton closer David Shepard with one out in the top of the 11th inning Wednesday night to lift the Portland Sea Dogs to a 9-5 victory over the Trenton Thunder in front of 5,411 at Waterfront Park.

Inserted into the game after starting first baseman Mike O'Keefe was ejected by home-plate umpire Steve Fritzoni for arguing balls and strikes in the seventh inning, Kilburg drilled a hanging change-up from Shepard (2-4) for the go-ahead runs after Portland pitchers had coughed up leads of 1-0, 4-1 and 5-3.

"I don't really like days off anyway," Kilburg said.
"Coming off the bench is my job, and I'll do whatever these guys need me to do. I just have to be ready."

Eastern League All-Star shortstop Kenny Perez continued his torrid hitting on the road with four RBI and three of Portland's 15 hits off four Trenton pitchers.
Perez, 2 for his last 27 at Hadlock Field, now has 18 hits over his last 34 at-bats (.529) on the road.

Eric Glaser (1-3) allowed no runs in the final two innings for his first victory of the season.

Portland gave starter Josh Stevens to a 1-0 lead in the third inning when Brett Roneberg's double off Ramon Ramirez chased home Sheldon Fulse.

The Thunder (40-43) tied the game in the fifth when Jake Weber singled, stole second and scored on a David Parrish single.
Stevens walked the next two batters to load the bases with one out, but he got Craig Wilson to bounce into a double play to end the threat.

The Sea Dogs (40-45) capitalized on three walks by a tiring Ramirez in the sixth inning when Perez bounced a double past first base and into the right-field corner to score John Hattig and O'Keefe.
Mike Lockwood drove in the Sea Dogs' third run of the inning with a sacrifice fly to center field and Portland led, 4-1.

Trenton rallied to within 4-3 in the sixth.
Bronson Sardinha ended up with a leadoff triple when Fulse slipped trying to field his fly ball to center.
Sardinha scored on a sacrifice fly by Rifkin.
Parrish later singled home Mitch Jones for the second run.

Perez singled in a run in the seventh to give the Sea Dogs a 5-3 lead, but the Thunder tied it in the eighth when Mitch Jones hit his 22nd home run of the season, off James Johnson.

Mistakes plague Thunder

After the Thunder took another giant leap toward last place with a 9-5 loss to Portland in 11 innings last night at Waterfront Park, outfielder Mitch Jones compared his team's inability to get over the hump this season with constantly being kicked in the head.

Manager Stump Merrill, on the other hand, will save everyone the trouble by just banging his against the cinder block wall in the first-base dugout after two more costly mistakes in the late innings and eight runners left stranded in scoring position dropped the Thunder (40-43) three games under .500 and within two games of the Eastern League Northern Division cellar.

"These are the type of games that hurt," said Jones, who blasted his 22nd home run and the 100th of his career to help tie the game at 5-5 in the bottom of the eighth inning.
"When you keep coming back and coming back and then give it away.
It's tough to keep saying we are better than we've played and then not show it by always finding ways to give games away."

Catcher David Parrish made a costly base-running blunder on Kevin Thompson's bases-loaded fly ball to right field in the eighth, which suddenly turned into a 9-3 double play when Parrish, tagging at second base, took off for third thinking Jake Weber was going to tag and score.
When Weber held up, Parrish was caught off second for the second out.

The Thunder sent eight hitters to the plate in the eighth inning, but scored only two runs.

In the top of the 11th, third baseman Bronson Sardinha misplayed Jeff Bailey's grounder into a one-out double to set the table for Joe Kilburg's bases-clearing two-bagger into the right field corner off Thunder closer David Shepard (2-4).

"It was either come up and get it on the short hop or stay back on it," Sardinha said.
"Either way it's a ball I should have had.
We battled out there and we had our chances. I just feel bad I didn't make that play. I feel like I let the team down."

Inserted into the game only after starting first baseman Mike O'Keefe was ejected by home plate umpire Steve Fritzoni in the seventh inning for arguing balls and strikes, Kilburg drilled a hanging changeup from Shepard in his second at-bat to provide the difference in a game which saw the Sea Dogs (40-45) cough up leads of 1-0, 4-1 and 5-3.

EL All-Star shortstop Kenny Perez continued his torrid hitting on the road with four RBIs and three of Portland's 15 hits off four Thunder pitchers.
Perez has 18 hits over his last 34 at bats (.529) on the road.

Former Thunder pitcher Eric Glaser (1-3) worked the final two (scoreless) innings for his first victory of the season.

"This was a matter of not knowing how to play," a frustrated Merrill said after his team's fourth loss in five games.
"There were other mistakes, but (the one by Parrish on the bases) was the most glaring.
It never should have even come to (Shepard in the 11th inning).
Play the game the way it is supposed to be played, fundamental baseball, and if you don't it will come back and bite you on the (rear)."

Jones, as expected, was added to the Eastern League Northern Division All-Star Team yesterday.
Jones, 26, replaces former teammate Kevin Reese, who was promoted to Triple-A Columbus Sunday, and will join teammates Aaron Rifkin, Shepard and Javier Ortiz at the July 14 event at Bowie's Prince George's Stadium.
With home runs in three consecutive games, including last night's solo shot in the eighth, Jones reached the 20-homer landmark for the fourth consecutive campaign.
"It's nice to be recognized," Jones said. "I was getting close to making other plans for those two days."

Eastern League Game Summary - Portland at Trenton

Joe Kilburg delivered a three-run double in the tenth inning to lift the Portland Sea Dogs over the Trenton Thunder, 9-5.

The Sea Dogs (40-45) have taken two straight from the Thunder (40-43).

Kilburg's double plated John Hattig, Jeff Bailey and Brett Roneberg to put Portland up 8-5.
Kilburg scored on a Kenny Perez single to cap the inning.

Perez went 3-for-6 with four RBI in the win.

Eric Glaser (1-3) earned the win for the Sea Dogs.
He tossed two scoreless innings and walked one.

Trenton's David Shepard fell to 2-4.
He was rocked in 2-2/3rd innings where he allowed four earned runs on four hits and one walk.

Trenton's Mitch Jones knocked his 22nd home run of the season in loss, while David Parrish drove in two runs.

SEA DOGS TAKE EXTRA INNING MARATHON IN TRENTON
Kilburg Snaps Tie with 3-Run Double in 11th - Dogs Win 9-5

Joe Kilburg's three-run double snapped an 11th inning tie and lifted the Portland Sea Dogs to a 9-5 win over the Trenton Thunder Wednesday night.

The game took 3 hours and 32 minutes to play after a 32-minute rain delay.

Kenny Perez added three hits and four RBI for the Sea Dogs, who clinched a series win for the first time since mid-June.

Jeff Bailey extended his streak of reaching base at least twice by hit or walk to 11 consecutive games with a single, double and two runs scored.

Perez delivered a tie-breaking two-run double in the sixth inning and added an insurance run with a two-out RBI single in the seventh frame.

Trenton tied the contest with two runs in the eighth inning on a home run from Mitch Jones and a two-out, run-scoring single from Andy Cannizaro.

In extra innings, the Sea Dogs loaded the bases with one out off All-Star closer David Shepard in the 11th (after Shepard threw two scoreless innings).
Kilburg then ripped a bases-clearing double into the right field corner and scored on a two-out single by Perez.

Eric Glaser threw two scoreless innings to earn his first win of the season.

Portland will try to sweep a series for the first time since May on Thursday.

TRENTON FALLS TO PORTLAND IN 11 INNINGS, 9-5
Parrish Collects Three Hits In Loss

Joe Kilburg had a bases-clearing double in the top of the 11th to help Portland outlast Trenton 9-5 in Eastern League play on Wednesday night.

The Sea Dogs have won the first two games of the series.

Portland (40-45) loaded the bases off Trenton reliever David Shepard (2-4) in the 11th Inning with the game knotted at 5-5.
Killburg knocked home three runs on a double with the infield playing in.
Kenny Perez added an RBI single in the four-run eleventh.

Shepard was charged with four runs in two innings.

Trenton (40-43) had tied the game at 5-5 with two runs in the 8th.
Mitch Jones led off the inning with a solo home run, his 22nd of the season.
Jones, who was named to the Eastern League All-Star Game on Wednesday, has now homered in three consecutive games.
Jake Weber followed the Jones blast with a double.
With runners at the corners and two outs, Andy Cannizaro hit a game-tying single scoring Weber.

Trenton had to play catch-up against the Sea Dogs for the second straight night.
Trenton made up 1-0 and 4-1 deficits earlier in the game.

Thunder starter Ramon Ramirez went six innings while scattering eight hits and four earned runs to pick up the no-decision.
He also struck out six and walked four.

Portland starter Josh Stevens threw 5-2/3 innings and gave up eight hits and three runs.

Eric Glaser (1-3) went two shutout innings in the 10th and 11th innings to pick up the victory.

The series will wrap-up on Wednesday afternoon at 12:05 p.m. as Matt DeSalvo (1-2) will take on Portland's knuckleballer Charlie Zink (1-7).