Curse of the SeaBlog, redux.

As predicted in this space, Stefan Bailie suffered the COTSB after being hyped in yesterday's blog entry. Bailie went 0-4 with a walk and three K's in Portland's 7-3 loss to Trenton. Fortunately, Hanley Ramirez bounced back by going 2-3 with a home run, two walks and two steals in a losing effort. The bullpen was shaky again, giving up back-to-back home runs to Aaron Rifkin (a tremendous shot) and Mitch Jones (#31 on the year for him) in the 8th to seal the loss.

At least the Famous Chicken was entertaining, giving Slugger most of the game off. And it didn't rain. That was cool, too. The Dogs are tied for 4th in the AL East with New Britain, a game ahead of the last-place, Yankee affiliated Thunder.