PORTLAND, Maine — The Portland Sea Dogs scored four runs in the bottom of the ninth after trailing 3-0 to stun the New Hampshire Fisher Cats with a 4-3 walk-off win Thursday night in front of a sellout crowd at Hadlock Field in Double-A baseball action.
Tzu-Wei Lin delivered the game-winning RBI single with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the ninth to give the Sea Dogs their sixth straight home win via walk-off.
NH’s Colt Hynes (2-1) issued a one-out walk in the ninth to Reed Gragnani and allowed a single to Aneury Tavarez to bring the tying run to the plate. Manuel Margot then lined a base hit to center field that skipped over the head of Roemon Fields and rolled all the way to the wall in center field, allowing two runs to score and Margot to wind up at third base with a triple.
Carlos Asuaje followed up with a bloop double down the line to tie the game at three. Danny Barnes entered the game and walked two before allowing the game-winning hit to Lin.
Jorge Marban (2-0) was the winning pitcher for Portland, pitching a scoreless, hitless ninth while issuing one walk.
New Hampshire got on the board in the third inning when Martin Medina hit a lead-off solo home run, his first since 2013. New Hampshire added two more runs off of Luis Diaz in the fifth inning on a sacrifice fly by Medina and a balk by Diaz that scored Emilio Guerrero.
Diaz worked his fifth straight quality start and sixth in his last seven outings, going 6 ⅓ innings and allowing three earned runs on five hits, walking one and striking out one.
Jeff Hoffman, making his second career Double-A start, threw 5 ⅓ scoreless innings for New Hampshire. Hoffman walked two and struck out five.