Coming back from Tommy John surgery, Portland Sea Dogs pitcher Danny Rosenbaum continues to be held to a limited pitch count. 

Unfortunately, on Saturday, that pitch count rose very quickly.

Rosenbaum surrendered just two hits but walked six, lasting just 3+ innings and giving up three runs (2 earned). The Sea Dogs bullpen when six scoreless innings but the three runs were enough for the Harrisburg Senators to defeat the Portland Sea Dogs 3-2 on Saturday night. 

The Senators struck twice in the first inning after Rosenbaum walked the first two batters. Cutter Dykstra sliced a single to right field. Wilmer Difo was held at third base but a throwing error from right fielder Aneury Tavarez allowed him to score. Chirs Bostick advanced to third on the play and came around to score on a double-play ground out, staking Harrisburg starter John Simms to a 2-0 advantage. Portland halved the lead in the bottom half of the inning thanks to an RBI double from designated hitter Tim Roberson, scoring first baseman Sam Travis. 

Harrisburg regained their two-run lead in the second inning when Rosenbaum walked two batters sandwiched around a strikeout. Derrick Robinson doubled to score a run but Rosenbaum, a former Senator himself, escaped the inning without further damage. 

The Sea Dogs loaded the bases in the bottom half of the inning on a single, walk, and hit batsman but didn't score. They halved the lead yet again in the fourth inning when Keury De La Cruz ripped a one-out triple down the right field line. He scored on an RBI groundout from Luis Martinez. 

The Sea Dogs bullpen gave their offense a chance to tie the game. Converted reliever Mike Augliera fired four perfect innings, striking out four. Williams Jerez pitched the eighth and part of the ninth before John Cornely finished the bullpen's shutout effort in the ninth. 

Portland wasted multiple scoring chances. In the fifth inning, they put runners on first and second with nobody out but Simms struck out Tim Roberson, induced a popout off the bat of Henry Ramos, and got Tzu-Wei Lin to fly out. In the seventh inning, against reliever Paul Demny, Carlos Asuaje doubled to lead off the inning and advanced to third on a Tavarez sacrifice bunt. However, Demny struck out Travis and Roberson to end the last Portland threat. Demny fired a 1-2-3 eighth inning before handing the game over to Erik Davis. Davis got two fly outs from De La Cruz and Martinez before striking out Asuaje on three pitches to end a tight ballgame.

Neither team had a hitter with a multi-hit day.  

The Sea Dogs fall to 40-68 with loss while the Senators improve to 52-56. 

VAVEL Logo
About the author