D-Rays Nightmare

Sunday's game between the Sea Dogs and the Binghamton Mets featured a matchup of the two pitchers who were rumored to be heading to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the Manny Ramirez trade last weekend. Bingamton's Yusmiero Petit was just a bit better than Portland's Anibal Sanchez, resulting in a 4-1 Mets victory. The two pitchers posted a combined line of 13.2 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 1 BB and 16 K's in the game, which is quite dominating. Sanchez tired during a 15-pitch at bat by Binghamton 3B Jay Caligiuri in the 7th, eventually allowing the winning home run. The Sea Dogs lost 4 of 5 games to the last-place Mets over the weekend. The series featured two double headers as the teams were forced to make up two games of the four-game series that was rained out in its entirety in Portland in May. The schedule didn't allow the teams to make up all the games in Portland.

Binghamton was aided by two rehabbing major leaguers over the weekend. Pitcher Steve Trachsel outdueled Jon Lester in Saturday's opener, allowing just one run in a seven-inning complete game. Second baseman Kaz Matsui played in three games and was 4-9 in the series. Saturday's second game also featured the Sea Dogs debut of pitcher Scott Shoemaker, who has spent most of the season in Wilmington, with a couple starts at Pawtucket thrown in. Shoemaker didn't pitch well allowed five runs in just 3.2 innings. He had good numbers in Wilmington, pitching 79.2 innings with a 3.50 ERA, 1.28 WHIP and 69/36 K/BB ratio.