PRESS RELEASE: - Portland 5, Binghamton 3

Raul Reyes enjoyed a 2-for-4 night with a double and a homer, but Binghamton fell 5-3 to Portland in a back-and-forth affair Thursday night at Hadlock Field to drop the four-game set 3-1. The game wrapped up the B-Mets 71-game road slate for 2010.



Binghamton (65-72) was first to tally with a run in the second inning. Brahiam Maldonado hit a seeing-eye single to left with one out off starter Blake Maxwell. Reyes pushed the runner up to third with a ground-rule double to right-center. Luke Montz brought Maldonado home to score on a soft groundout to third.



Portland (66-71) rallied to take the lead in the last of the third. Nate Spears started the frame with a double off the glove of Josh Satin at first. After Eddie Kunz got the next two hitters to fly out, Luis Exposito reached on catcher’s interference. Kunz then balked the runners up to second and third on a botched pickoff attempt to second. From there, the runners scored on Jorge Padron’s double to right-center, vaulting the Sea Dogs into the lead, 2-1.



Reyes got the lead back for the B-Mets in the fourth. Eric Campbell reached on an infield single to third leading off the stanza. After Maxwell struck out Maldonado, Reyes crushed a 2-2 fastball from the right-hander out to right-center for a two-run homer. The rightfielder’s eighth homer of the season gave the lead back to Binghamton, 3-2.



Two pitches into the bottom of the fourth inning, the Sea Dogs had tied the score. Juan Carlos Linares tattooed a 1-0 fastball from Kunz for his first Double-A homer, tying the game at three. Che-Hsuan Lin followed and reached on an infield single to second and took second base when Jordany Valdespin threw the ball away. Jose Iglesias joined Lin aboard when he reached on a bunt single to third. With runners at the corners, Spears gave the Sea Dogs the lead for good with a sacrifice fly to center, making it 4-3.



Portland knocked Kunz out of the game in the fifth after an RBI double by Linares. Kunz endured his seventh loss. He allowed five runs — three earned — on eight hits over 4 1/3 innings.



Maxwell, who entered an undefeated 6-0 on the year with the Sea Dogs, earned his seventh win with 5 2/3 innings of three-run work. Daniel Turpen relieved him in the sixth and hurled 2 1/3 innings scoreless to hold it for Jason Rice, who saved the game with a 1-2-3 ninth.



Edgar Ramirez spelled Kunz in the fifth and tossed 2 2/3 innings in scoreless fashion. He has now strung together 8 2/3 consecutive scoreless frames of work.