READING, PA. –\u00a0The Reading Fightin Phils (55-59, 25-20) lost to the Portland Sea Dogs (59-55, 24-22) by a score of 7-5 at Hadlock Field. This is the first of six games this week between the Eastern League-Northeast foes.<\/p>\n
Portland got on the board in the first, as Jack Winnay hit a line drive single to right field to score Justin Gonzalez. This gave the Sea Dogs an early 1-0 nod.<\/p>\n
The Red Sox Double-A affiliate doubled up its lead in the fourth stanza. Henry Godbout (1) swatted a solo home run to left center field, bolstering Portland\u2019s advantage to 2-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roman Anthony (1) was rehabbing with the Sea Dogs, marking a return after he tore a ligament in his finger back in May. The 2022 2nd round (Competitive Balance C) pick crushed a two-run home run to right field in the fifth inning, plating Max Ferguson.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brooks Brannon followed up by smacking his 25th double of the season, sending Winnay trotting home to make the game 5-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reading got on the board in the sixth inning, as Raylin Heredia (21) homered on a fly ball to left field, scoring Pedro Le\u00f3n. Heredia\u2019s 21st homer of the season is the second most of any R-Phils player (behind Alex Binelas).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carson DeMartini (6) followed up with a solo home run later in the frame. It\u2019s the Phillies No. 24 prospect\u2019s second round-tripper since returning from the IL. This made the game 5-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Portland fought back in the bottom half of the inning. Brannon punched a single through the infield to score Ahbram Liendo before a Ronald Rosario fielder\u2019s choice sent Winnay home for the seventh run.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Fightins entered the ninth inning down four runs, but they found some late fight. Heredia kept his impressive night going, singling to right field to score Phillies No. 5 prospect Bryan Rincon and Luke Ritter. Binelas stepped up with runners on second and third and two outs, and he hit a hard lineout to center field to end the ball game.<\/p>\n
Portland starter Dalton Rogers (2-4) got the win, going 5.1 innings of two-run ball with a walk and eight strikeouts in the evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reading hurler Luke Russo (9-8) took the loss, relinquishing five runs over five innings with three walks and three strikeouts.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heredia stood out the most of any R-Phils hitter, going 3-for-5 with a home run and a team-best four runs batted in.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite the loss, the Fightin Phils still hold a 1.5 game lead over the Sea Dogs for the division lead.<\/p>\n
Reading returns to the field on Wednesday against the Portland Sea Dogs at 6 p.m. LHP Adam Seminaris will start for Reading, and he will go opposite RHP Steven Brooks for Portland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, PA. –\u00a0The Reading Fightin Phils (55-59, 25-20) lost to the Portland Sea Dogs (59-55, 24-22) by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4773,51245,128,130,129,44158,726],"class_list":["post-268274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_sports_top_stories","tag-milb","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-fightin-phils","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}