Triston Casas extended his hitting streak to eight games on Friday night, and the Portland Sea Dogs made it two wins of the first three in a six game series with a 5-1 victory over the Binghamton Rumble Ponies at Hadlock Field.
The teams traded runs in the bottom of the third and top of the fourth. Hudson Potts RBI groundout made it 1-0 Portland, before Carlos Rincon tied it with a solo homerun. The ‘Dogs took the lead for good in the home half of the fourth when Grant Williams reached on an error by the Rumble Ponies second baseman that allowed two runs to score to make it 3-1. The hosts padded the lead and finished the scoring on a Jeisson Rosario two-run single in the seventh. Casas, Ronaldo Baldwin, and Rosario each had two hits. Casas reached three times, also on a walk and scored a run. Victor Santos (4-2) got the win on the mound allowing one run on five hits with one walk and five strikeouts in 5.0 innings. Rio Gomez got a hold out of the bullpen firing 2.0 innings, extending his scoreless streak to 11 appearances not allowing any runs over the last 15.2 innings pitched. Brett Baty and Hayden Senger had two hits each for Binghamton (41-50), and Justin Lasko (1-1) took the pitching loss allowing two earned runs on six hits over 4.0 innings.
Portland (55-36) extends their lead in the Double A Northeast Division to a pair of games over the second place Somerset Patriots (NY Yankees). The Sea Dogs and Rumble Ponies after a Thursday postponement due to rain, will play a single admission doubleheader (7 innings each) beginning at 5 p.m. Saturday.
