Portland, Maine- Luis Reyes fired 7.0 innings of shutout baseball on Thursday night, and the Harrisburg Senators ended a 15 game win streak by the Portland Sea Dogs with a 1-0 win at Hadlock Field.
Cole Freeman singled in Jackson Cluff with one out in the ninth inning for the only run of the game. Pedro Castellanos walked to start the bottom half of the ninth for Portland (42-24), but Devlin Granberg lined into an unassisted double play and Ryan Fitzgerald popped out to end it. The Sea Dogs best scoring chance was in the fourth when Granberg and Fitzgerald walked to start the inning, and moved up to second and third on a wild pitch. Hudson Potts then flied out to short center. Granberg was tagged out at home trying to score on a wild pitch with Jhonny Pereda batting, and Pereda then lined out to end the threat as the hosts were 0-6 on the night with runners in scoring position.
Frank German went the first 5.0 innings in the loss for Portland allowing no runs on four hits with no walks and two strikeouts. Victor Santos (1-2) would take the loss allowing the lone run in the ninth. Castellanos had two of the Sea Dogs four hits. Reyes allowed four hits with three walks and four strikeouts, and Pierson McMahan (4-2) pitched the final 2.0 innings to pick up the win for Harrisburg (25-43). Jake Alu and Cluff had two hits each for the Senators. The series continues Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with games four, five, and six with Chris Sale expected to start in another rehab outing on Sunday afternoon.
