PORTLAND — The Trenton Thunder tied the Eastern League baseball game in the eighth inning and plated the winning run in the ninth inning to defeat the Portland Sea Dogs, 4-3 Wednesday night at Hadlock Field.

The Yankees’ affiliate tied the game when Dan Brewer scooted home from third base on a Charle Rosario (2-1) wild pitch.

Brewer led-off the top of the ninth with a triple and scored the game’s winning run on a Kevin Mahoney double off the Maine Monster.

Portland threatened in the bottom half of the ninth, but Trenton right-fielder Abraham Almonte threw out Ryan Dent at the plate on Kolbrin Vitek’s single.

Preston Claiborne (1-1) earned the win tossing 1.2 innings of relief allowing one hit. Ryan Flannery notched his third save of the season.

The Sea Dogs jumped on the scoreboard first when Dan Butler doubled home Reynaldo Rodriguez to take a 1-0 lead. The Sea Dogs strung together three straight hits in the third inning, including an RBI single off the bat of Juan Carlos Linares.

Rodriguez swatted a solo home run to center off Trenton starter Craig Heyer in the sixth to break the 2-2 tie.

Portland starter Chris Balcom Miller tossed five innings, allowing two runs on five hits. He walked one and struck out a season high five batters. Brock Huntzinger pitched two hitless innings of relief for the Sea Dogs.

The two clubs will conclude the series tonight at 6 p.m. Stolmy Pimentel (0-0, 3.60) starts for the Sea Dogs against Trenton’s Shaeffer Hall (2-3, 3.72).