PORTLAND, Maine — Sunday’s Eastern League baseball contest between the Portland Sea Dogs and Reading Fightin Phils at Hadlock Field has been postponed due to rain.
The game will be made up as part of a single-admission doubleheader at 5 p.m. Monday. Two seven-inning games will be played.
Tickets for Sunday’s postponed game may exchanged for tickets of equal or lesser value to any remaining 2015 Sea Dogs home game, subject to availability. Tickets for the Monday game are good for both games of the doubleheader.
The postponement is the Sea Dogs third at Hadlock Field this season.
On Saturday night, Reading’s Brian Pointer hit three home runs and spoiled the opener of a seven-game homestand at Hadlock Field as the Fightin Phils beat the Sea Dogs 8-5.
Ryan Hanigan, on rehab assignment for the Red Sox, played all nine innings at catcher for the Sea Dogs and went 0 for 2 with two walks and a strikeout.
It was the first career three-homer game for Pointer and the first time a player hit three home runs in a game against the Sea Dogs since Derrick Gibson of the New Haven Ravens hit three on July 15, 1997.
Reading got off to a quick start with back-to-back doubles by KC Serna and Kelly Dugan to take a 1-0 lead after one. The Phils doubled up their lead in the second on a solo home run by Brian Pointer.
The Sea Dogs struck in the fourth thanks to a leadoff double by Jantzen Witte who went to third triple on an error by center fielder Ethan Chapman. Sam Travis would follow with a sacrifice fly to pick up his first Double-A RBI and cut the lead to 2-1. Portland then tied the game at two in the third when Carlos Asuaje grounded into a 4-6-3 double play, with Cole Sturgeon scoring.
Portland starter Heri Quevedo allowed two earned runs on five hits in five innings, walking two and striking out five to receive a no-decision. Mike McCarthy entered the game in the sixth and allowed a two-run homer to Pointer to give Reading a 4-2 advantage.
The Sea Dogs rallied in the fifth on Manuel Margot’s three-run homer, his first career Double-A homer, to give the Sea Dogs a 5-4 lead.
The Phils answered with a two-run homer by Pointer, an RBI triple by JP Crawford and an RBI single by KC Serna for an 8-5 lead.