The Portland Sea Dogs took advantage of wild Bowie Baysox pitching and rallied for an 8-5 win Friday night at Hadlock Field.
Down 5-4, Portland scored four runs in the eighth – on four walks, a hit batter, and Jeremy Barfield’s two-run single.
Josh Ockimey and Jordan Procyshen homered for the Sea Dogs. Ockimey, a first-base prospect, also doubled in a run.
Ryan Flaherty, a Portland native on a rehab assignment from the Baltimore Orioles, played shortstop for Bowie and went 2 for 4 with two singles and a walk. He also made a throwing error.
Portland’s Jordan Procyshen celebrates after scoring a run.
D.J. Stewart homered for the Baysox.
Dedgar Jimenez, making his third Double-A start for the Sea Dogs, gave up four runs on 10 hits and two walks over six innings. He struck out two and left with the score 4-4.
Sea Dogs reliever Jake Cosart (5-2) gave up a Garabez Rosa triple and an RBI double by Stewart in the seventh. Rosa finished 3 for 5.
Portland’s Chad De La Guerra turns a double play for the Sea Dogs as D.J. Stewart tries to break up the play for the Bowie Baysox.
The Sea Dogs rallied in the eighth when reliever Tim Berry (4-1) walked the bases loaded with one out. Reliever Scott McGough hit Joseph Monge and walked Chad De La Guerra to give Portland a 6-5 lead. Barfield added insurance.
Bobby Poyner, now 6 for 6 in save chances, pitched a 1-2-3 ninth with a strikeout to lower his ERA to 0.31. He has 38 strikeouts and five walks in 29 innings.
NOTES: The announced paid attendance was 7,368. … Barfield was named the Eastern League Player of the Month for July, the first Sea Dogs player to receive the honor since two got it in 2014 (Sean Coyle and Mookie Betts). Barfield batted .336 in July with 12 home runs and 33 RBI. … Bowie center fielder Cedric Mullins ran down deep balls from Barfield and Michael Chavis to the warning track. … Ockimey hit 11 home runs for Class A Salem before his promotion this week. … Procyshen has four homers. … Flaherty is one of two rehab major leaguers with Bowie. Outfielder Anthony Santander served as the DH, going 0 for 5. Santander, taken from the Indians in the Rule 5 draft last December, is recovering from a forearm strain. … A third rehab player, Red Sox reliever Carson Smith, is expected to pitch Saturday for Portland. Boston Manager John Farrell indicated that Smith will pitch at Hadlock and Smith tweeted that he’ll be here.
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