HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Portland Sea Dogs (21-31) and Harrisburg Senators (28-24) battled in an Eastern League baseball doubleheader, with the Sea Dogs taking the opener, 3-2, while the Senators came away with a 5-2 victory in game two.
In the first game, Portland plated two runs in the seventh inning for a come-frombehind victory.
Bryce Brentz tied the game with a home run, and Zach Gentile brought home the winning run with an RBI single, scoring Derrik Gibson, who had walked and stolen second.
Billy Buckner earned the mound win, going the distance on four hits, one walk and four strikeouts to improve to 4-3.
Harrisburg came away with the split, scoring all five of its runs in the fourth inning.
Down 1-0, the Senators sent nine men to the plate and scored five runs to take the lead for good. Chris McConnel delivered the big blow, knocking in three runs with a bases-clearing triple for a 4-1 lead.
Juan Carlos Linares singled in a run in the second and homered in the sixth to account for Portland’s two runs.
The series was to conclude today, with Chris Balcom- Miller (2-4) going for Portland against Harrisburg’s Paul Demny (4-2).
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