The wind blowin' to right

August 24, 2011
Well it back in Portland. The Sea Dogs took on the Harrisburg Senators. Harrisburg is the Eastern League affiliate of the Washington Nationals. Going into this game the hype was Nationals top prospect and top prospect overall in baseball Bryce Harper was suppose to play. Harper who was the number one pick in the 2011 draft advanced to "AA" after he tore through "A" ball. Unfortanitly it was not ment to be. He hurt is hamstring a week earlier and of corse the Nationals shut him down for the remainder of the season. But the game goes on. It was a beautiful sunny but breezy day at Hadlock. Pitching for the Sea Dogs Jeremy Kehrt. Kehrt going into the game was 2-0, 4.52 era, 19 apperances with just 3 starts. Pitching for the Senators was southpaw Oliver Perez. Perez has a full major league career with the Pirates and Mets. He ended up getting realised by the Mets was picked up by Washington and they sent him to "AA" to pitch his way back to the bigs. After a scoreless 1st Tyler Moore of the Senators hit a homer give the Senators a 1-0 lead. With the wind blowing a gale to right field Tim Puhuta clobberd a 2 run homer that almost cleared the US Cellular Pavillion sign in right field. Probley one of the longest homers I've ever seen hit at Hadlock Field. That shot made the score 3-0. Sea Dogs catcher Jeff Howell hit a homer of his own in the 4th to cut the lead 3-1. Kehrt after 5 2/3 innings was lifted for right Chris Martin. So really Kehrt pitched pretty good. His only mistake was the homer to Puhuta. In the top of the 7th with one out Chris Rahl of Harrisburg hit a solo homer to make it 4-1. But the Senators would pull away in the top of the 8th. 10 batters hit, 5 scored. The score now stood at 9-1. Not looking good for the Sea Dogs. However they would score 2 in the bottom half on a 2 run homer by Ryan Dent. That would be how the game stood the final score Senators 9, Sea Dogs 3. Player of the game for Portland was catcher Jeff Howell, he went 4-5. Including 2 doubles and a homer. Oliver Perez pitched only 4 2/3 innings giving up 5 hits on 1 run.
Next up: Possibly Sept 2 in Portland...(hopefully)