NEW BRITAIN, Connecticut — New Britain Rock Cats left-hander Hunter Musgrave fired six hitless innings in a 6-2 Eastern League baseball win over the Portland Sea Dogs Thursday night at New Britain Stadium.
Musgrave walked Manuel Margot to lead off the game, but picked him off, and went on to retire the final 17 batters he faced. He earned his second Double-A win and recorded seven strikeouts.
Mike McCarthy (6-8) suffered his fourth straight loss with Portland, yielding three runs in the first inning.
Mike Tauchman knocked in the game’s first run with a single. Pat Valaika added a sacrifice fly and Will Swanner nailed a two-out RBI single.
McCarthy yielded a two-run double to Joey Wong in the fourth, giving the Cats a 5-0 lead. McCarthy gave up five runs and six hits in five innings.
The Sea Dogs finally got in the hit column in the seventh inning when Margot began the frame with a single off Sam Moll. Tzu-Wei Lin then singled, Sam Travis walked and Oscar Tejeda put the Sea Dogs on the board with a run-scoring double-play ball.
Carlos Asuaje cut the deficit to 5-2 with an RBI single.
New Britain added the final run in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by Tyler Massey.