PORTLAND, Maine — Teddy Stankiewicz worked his team-leading 11th quality start and the Portland Sea Dogs cruised to a 9-3 Eastern League baseball win over the Binghamton Mets Friday night at Hadlock Field.
Stankiewicz (3-7) allowed three runs on five hits in six innings with no walks and a season-high tying six strikeouts. Austin Maddox worked two perfect innings of relief.
Portland’s Jake Romanski singled with two outs in the second inning to score Ryan Court and plate the game’s first run.
Portland struck again in the third, scoring four runs on five consecutive hits. Mauricio Dubon hit an RBI double to make it 2-0, then Andrew Benintendi hit a two-run bloop single to score Yoan Moncada and Dubon. Nate Freiman followed with an RBI single and the Sea Dogs led 5-0 after three.
Benintendi started the game as the left fielder, the first time he played a position other than center field as a professional.
Binghamton starter Mickey Jannis (L, 3-9) allowed five runs on seven hits in 3 ⅓ innings, walking three and striking out one.
The Mets climbed back into the ballgame beginning in the fifth. Jayce Boyd drilled a two-out homer to left-center to cut the Sea Dogs lead to 5-2. The next inning Amed Rosario hit a two-out, RBI single to score Derrik Gibson and make it 5-3.
The Sea Dogs padded the lead with four runs in the seventh inning, including a two-out, two-run double by Cole Sturgeon down the right-field line off of Luis Mateo.