HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — The Harrisburg Senators won their seventh straight game, beating the Portland Sea Dogs 6-5 on Monday night in an Eastern League baseball series opener at FNB Field.
Portland had two leads and 11 hits, but lost their third straight game.
With the Sea Dogs leading 5-4 entering the bottom of the eighth, Luis Ysla (1-2) could not hold the lead, taking the loss. Chris Bostick led off the eighth with a triple and scored the tying run on a triple by Zach Collier.
Harrisburg had four triples. The game-winning run scored on a sacrifice fly by Adrian Sanchez.
In the ninth, Koda Glover pitched a perfect inning to earn his second save of the year. Portland took a 5-4 lead over winning pitcher Derek Self (2-1) on Rainel Rosario’s RBI single in the eighth. Rosario finished 3-for-4 with a double and run scored.
Portland trailed 1-0, but scored four runs off starter Tyler Mapes in the third. Tzu-Wei Lin tied the game with a triple and scored on a single by Henry Ramos. Sean Coyle blasted a two-run homer to right field, his 17th Double-A home run.
Harrisburg added a run off Aaron Wilkerson in the fourth inning on Shawn Pleffner’s RBI single. Wilkerson had his scoreless streak snapped at 21 innings in the second inning, and worked five innings on six hits and three runs.
The Senators tied the game in the sixth inning on Spencer Kieboom’s two-run homer off Williams Jerez.
Portland catcher Jake Romanski added two hits, picking up his team-leading 12th multi-hit game of the season. Portland is 13 games under .500 for the second time this season, and 4-18 on the road.