PRESS RELEASE: - Portland 6, Binghamton 0

Portland right-handers Stephen Fife and Ryne Lawson combined on a three-hit shutout of Binghamton last night, leading the Sea Dogs to a 6-0 victory at Hadlock Field Tuesday night. Fife carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning before Raul Reyes broke it up with a one-out single.



Binghamton (64-71), for the second straight night, fell behind early. Eric Beaulac, who was making his second Double-A start, gave up a leadoff single to Nate Spears. Che-Hsuan Lin followed and drew a walk to put two on and nobody out. Anthony Rizzo drove both men home with a double into the right-field corner. Rizzo advanced to third on a wild pitch and would score when the next hitter, Ryan Lavarnway, lofted a sacrifice fly to center, making it 3-0 Sea Dogs.

Emotions ran high in the second inning as Fife hit Sean Ratliff with the first pitch of the inning, causing home plate umpire Andy Dudones to warn both benches. Ratliff was erased a pitch later on a 6-4-3 double play hit into by Zach Lutz. It proved to be the B-Mets lone baserunner until the sixth inning.

Portland (65-70) was back at it in the second against a new pitcher, though. Beaulac exited to the loss after one inning due to injury. Roy Merritt replaced him and retired the first two hitters of the frame before giving up a disputed solo homer to Will Vazquez, his first of the year, upping the Sea Dogs lead to 4-0.


Merritt took the game into the fifth where Elvin Ramirez took over. After Ramirez got Rizzo to pop out to second, Lavarnway and Luis Exposito cranked back-to-back homers, increasing the lead to 6-0.



Reyes snapped Fife’s no-hit bid in the sixth on a hanging 2-2 breaking ball, sending the ball into center for a clean single. Luke Montz followed and was ejected by Dudones after arguing a called third strike. Manager Tim Teufel was subsequently ejected for supporting Montz.

Fife exited to the win after hurling the sixth. He limited the B-Mets to a pair of hits and struck out five to pick up his seventh win of the season.



Lawson relieved Fife in the seventh and took it the rest of the way. He gave up just one hit, a Marshall Hubbard double leading off the eighth. Lawson was credited with his second save of the season.

The two Portland hurlers faced three over the minimum in the gem. It was the Sea Dogs seventh shutout of the season.