The New Hampshire Fisher Cats (41-49) took advantage of a costly Sea Dogs (32- 58) error in the 10th inning and took the Eastern League series opener, 6-4 in a game that started Thursday night and ended Friday morning.
The game was delayed in the bottom of the ninth inning for 99 minutes by rain and resumed at 11:45 p.m.
Roemon Fields laid down a sacrifice bunt and Danny Bethea threw the ball into foul territory to allow Christian Lopes to score from first base and plate the go-ahead run in the 10th inning. Jason Leblebijian added a sacrifice fly.
New Hampshire took an early lead on a two-out, solo homer by Leblebijian off of Mitch Atkins. Rowdy Tellez followed with a single and stole second base before being driven in by Dwight Smith Jr., to make it 2-0 Cats.
Tim Roberson hit a solo homer in the fourth off of Taylor Cole to cut the deficit in half and make it a 2-1 game, but New Hampshire responded in the top of the fifth on an RBI double by Christian Lopes. Three batters later Tellez doubled into the gap in right-center field to score Lopes and extend the lead to 4-1.
Cody Decker made it a one-run game with a two-run homer to right-center field off of Brady Dragmire in the sixth inning. Portland tied it in the ninth on an RBI ground ball by Andrew Benintendi, but stranded two runners on base.
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