NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — Portland Sea Dogs’ catcher Tim Roberson must love hitting in New Britain Stadium.

Roberson followed up Friday’s cycle with his second straight four-hit game on Saturday as the Sea Dogs defeated the New Britain Rock Cats 9-4 before 4,456 fans for their second straight victory over the top team in the Eastern League.

On Friday, Portland snapped the Rock Cats’ franchise record 13-game winning streak by rallying from a six-run deficit for a 13-11 victory in 10 innings.

The Sea Dogs started Saturday’s game with four straight extra-base hits and the first six batters reached safely before New Britain starter Ryan Carpenter (3-3) recorded an out.

That was part of a 16-hit attack for Portland, which has handed New Britain its only three home losses of the season.

Roberson went 4 for 5 with two singles and two doubles and is 8 for 11 with seven RBI in the series. He did not play Thursday.

“It’s just seeing the ball well, not trying to do too much, and putting good swings on baseballs,” Roberson said. “Once you get the barrel on it, you can’t control it from there.”

Mike Miller and Carlos Asuaje doubled, Jantzen Witte tripled, Oscar Tejeda doubled and Keury De La Cruz and Roberson singled before Carpenter finally retired a batter.

Blake Tekotte added an RBI single to cap Portland’s five-run first and the Sea Dogs tacked on two runs in the second and one in the third and fourth before their bats cooled off.

Roberson was asked if he thought hitting was contagious.

“It absolutely is,” Roberson said. “I’m a firm believer in it. When one guy gets going, hits start rolling, more guys start hopping in and the line keeps moving. That’s what we’ve been able to do the last couple nights.”

Every Portland starter had at least one hit by the fourth. By then, Witte, Roberson and Tekotte were each 3 for 3.

“I don’t know if (hitting) is contagious or we’re having better at-bats and finding holes,” Portland Manager Billy McMillon said. “I don’t know if our approach has changed much. We’ve just been getting hits.”

Witte followed his triple in the first with a solo homer in the second and an RBI double in the third, giving him a chance for the Sea Dogs’ second cycle in as many nights.

However, he struck out in the fifth and flied out to deep right field in the eighth, finishing the night 3-for-5 with three RBI.

“That one was kind of obvious because it was through three innings and having gotten rid of the quote-unquote hard ones (triple and homer) early,” said Witte, who admitted he was thinking cycle. “We all noticed.”

Lost amid the offensive onslaught was another solid outing by Portland starter William Cuevas (5-1), who allowed two runs and four hits over five innings with a walk and five strikeouts.

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