The Result
Fisher Cats - 3 to 1

Sea Dogs - Year-to-Date
49 wins - 56 losses

Brett's Position and the Batting Order
Playing rightfield
Batting #4

At the end of the Game
1 hit from 3 at-bats - single, 1 x run scored, 1 x walk, 1 x strike out

Brett's at-bats
First at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Led off the innings
Foul ball
Ball - well outside
Called strike - "tried to check his swing but it was a breaking ball for a strike"
Foul ball - off to the left
Foul ball
Ball - outside
"A 'little blooper' over third base and that will drop in for a base hit ...... and that was a good seven pitch at-bat by Brett"
Single
Went to second base on a hit
To third base on a ground-out
Scored on a wild pitch
Second at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Bases empty - one down
Ball - high and away
Foul ball - "slashed to the left side"
Foul ball - "in the air down the leftfield line and dropped foul by about three feet"
Swing&miss - "a breaking ball near the dirt"
Strike out
Third at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Led off the innings
Ball - off the outside corner
Foul ball - at the plate
"Hit into the hole at shortstop but out on a fine play by the Fisher Cats fielder"
Out 6-to-3
Fourth at-bat
Righthanded pitcher
Runner at first base - two down
Ball - low
Ball - "Roneberg is pushed back by an up-and-in pitch"
Ball - low
Ball - high
Walk
Out at second base on a fielder's-choice hit by the next Sea Dogs batter

Heard during the game
N/A

Email from Brett
N/A

Game Reports
FISHER CATS WIN FRIDAY ON WALKOFF HOMER
Singleton's Ninth Inning HR Downs Dogs, 3-1

Tyrell Godwin hit a game-tying home run in the eighth inning and Justin Singleton hit a walkoff two-run home run with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats rallied for a 3-1 win Friday night over the Portland Sea Dogs.

Kason Gabbard (4 IP, 3 H, 6 K) and Juan Perez (3 IP, 1 H, 2 K) combined to shut out the Fishers over the first seven innings before reliever Colin Young allowed the two home runs.

The Sea Dogs were limited to four hits by Chris Baker and Canadian Olympian John Ogiltree (2-4) and did not move a runner past second base after the second inning.

Portland's Brett Roneberg scored the Sea Dogs only run on a second inning wild pitch after leading off the inning with a single.

Great effort submarined by pair of late home runs

Home runs happened.
And they buried the Sea Dogs Friday night at Gill Stadium.

Portland lefty reliever Colin Young gave up a pair of homers in the last two innings and the Sea Dogs fell to the New Hampshire Fisher Cats 3-1 in the opener of a three-game series.

The teams meet again today at 5:05 p.m.

"You've got to hand it to the pitchers until the end," said Portland Manager Ron Johnson.
"We kind of fell apart late, obviously.
But it's tough to win 1-0 against a first-place team."

The Fisher Cats, who started the night tied with the Binghamton Mets atop the Eastern League's Northern Division, moved to 60-45.
The Sea Dogs, who are trying to escape the cellar, fell to 49-56.

The Sea Dogs came in off a 2-1 series win over Binghamton and owned a 1-0 lead going into the bottom of the eighth.
But Young, who had allowed only one run all month, couldn't nail this one down.
Tyrell Godwin tied the game with a leadoff homer in the eighth on a 3-2 breaking ball.

The Sea Dogs threatened on Mike Lockwood's two-out infield single and a Brett Roneberg walk off John Ogiltree in the top of the ninth.
But Stefan Bailie hit into a fielder's choice to end the inning.

Young struck out John Hattig, who a week ago was a Sea Dog, to open the ninth.
But Maikel Jova singled to right-center.
Young then got ahead of Justin Singleton.
But on a 1-2 pitch, Singleton drove the ball over the fence in right center.

It was Portland's first walkoff loss of the year.

"It was unfortunate," Johnson said.
"He had two strikes on him and he fouled a breaking ball off.
Then he tried to sneak a fastball by him. It didn't work."

Johnson was pleased with the four innings he got from starter Kason Gaddard, who is coming back from a sprained ankle.
Gaddard gave up four singles, walked no one and struck out six.
He had not gotten out of the third inning in his three previous starts.

Juan Perez followed Gaddard and pretty much matched his numbers.
He allowed one hit in three innings.

The Sea Dogs scraped together a run in the second inning to take the lead.
Roneberg led off with a single to left.
After Bailie flied out to right, Mike O'Keefe singled to left.
The runners moved up on a fielder's choice and then Roneberg scored on a wild pitch by Chris Baker.

The Dogs got little else off Baker.
He went a Fisher Cat-best eight innings and allowed the one run and four hits.

Singleton homer wins it for Fisher Cats

Newcomer Chris Baker established a franchise record by pitching eight innings, and Justin Singleton’s homer completed a dramatic comeback by the Fisher Cats in a 3-1 victory over Portland last night.

With the game on the verge of extra innings, Singleton crushed a two-run walk-off homer, stunning the Sea Dogs and electrifying a sellout crowd of 4,250 at Gill Stadium.
At home plate the Fisher Cats mobbed Singleton, who made winner of Olympics-bound reliever John Ogiltree (2-4).

Singleton’s 12th homer, a bullet over the advertising wall in right-center, kept the Fisher Cats in a tie for first place with Binghamton.

“I think we’re definitely playing like a first-place team right now,” said Singleton, who redeemed himself from three earlier strikeouts.

Facing Portland reliever Colin Young (1-1) in the ninth, New Hampshire got things started with a Maikel Jova single.
Until last night, Jova had accounted for the only walk-off homer in team history.
Singleton joined the club after crushing a one-out, middle-in fastball by Young.

“I had a tough night, and I was pretty frustrated,” he said.
“I was just trying to stay focused and put the ball in play.
I never go up there looking to hit a home run.”

Portland scratched for a run in the second inning, taking an early lead as Brett Roneberg scored on a wild pitch.

The Sea Dogs proceeded to quiet the Fishers on solid pitching from starter Kason Gabbard and Juan Perez, who combined to pitch seven innings of four-hit ball.

Baker, meanwhile, allowed just four hits through eight innings.
The right-hander won his first three starts after joining the team from Triple-A Syracuse.
Last night, he settled for a productive no-decision, striking out four.

New Hampshire was in danger of its first shutout since July 4 until Tyrell Godwin clubbed a solo homer in the eighth inning, knotting the contest at 1-apiece.

Ogiltree picked up the win after working a scoreless ninth.
At that point, he owed it to New Hampshire’s starter.
“(Baker) pitched awesome tonight. He deserved the win, obviously. If I could give him the win, I would,” Ogiltree said.

New Hampshire’s Gustavo Chacin, an Eastern League leader with 11 wins, takes the mound today against Portland’s Ryan Cameron.

Eastern League Game Summary - Portland at New Hampshire

Justin Singleton's two-run home in the ninth inning capped a late-inning rally as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats defeated the Portland Sea Dogs, 3-1 in an Eastern League contest.

Tyrell Godwin started the rally in the eighth when he smacked his sixth home run of the year to tie the game at one.

John Hattig struck out to start the ninth frame and was followed by Maikel Jova who reached base with a single.
Singleton delivered his round tripper to make a loser out of Sea Dogs reliever Colin Young.

Jova went 2-for-4 in the win.

John Ogiltree (2-4) earned the win in an inning of relief for New Hampshire.

Starter Chris Baker lasted eight innings and yielded only one earned run.
Baker scattered four hits, walked one and struck out four in the no decision.

Young fell to 1-1 with the loss.
In 1-1/3rd innings he surrendered three earned runs on three hits and one walk.

Brett Roneberg scored the only run of the game for the Sea Dogs.