PORTLAND, Maine — Yoan Moncada ignited the Portland offense with a three-run homer and the Sea Dogs defeated the New Hampshire Fisher Cats 8-2 on Tuesday night in an Eastern League baseball contest at Hadlock Field.
Moncada reached base five times with a homer and four walks. The homer is his 10th in Double-A while four walks are the most he has drawn in a single game as a pro. He’s now reached base in eight consecutive plate appearances.
The Fisher Cats struck first on back-to-back, two-out doubles by Rowdy Tellez and Ryan Lavarnway for a 2-0 lead, but were held scoreless thereafter.
Portland’s Jalen Beeks (W, 5-3) picked up his fourth win in his past five starts, allowing two earned runs on five hits while walking four and striking out one in five innings.
The Sea Dogs scored eight unanswered runs after trailing 2-0. Nate Freiman had an RBI double in the first to cut the deficit to 2-1, then Moncada gave Portland the lead for good with his homer in the second off of Fisher Cats’ starter Jeremy Gabryszwski (L, 7-11).
The Sea Dogs clubbed 11 hits and had four hitters with multi-hit games. Jake Romanski went 3-for-5 with a double and two RBIs, Cole Sturgeon finished 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored, Tzu-Wei Lin was 2-for-4 with an RBI and run scored, and Aneury Tavarez went 2-for-3 to raise his league-leading average to .334.
Portland’s Williams Jerez worked two hitless innings in relief and struck out a season-high four. Ty Buttrey pitched a scoreless eighth and Luis Ysla closed things out with a perfect ninth.