PORTLAND — Jantzen Witte considers himself to be more of a “gap-to-gap hitter” rather than a raw-power guy, but that didn’t stop him from participating in the Home Run Derby on Wednesday in front of his hometown fans at Hadlock Field. The 6-foot-2, 195-pound entered the contest with just four home runs on the season, his […]
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Double-A Baseball: Six Sea Dogs highlight All-Star Classic’s return to Portland
The top talent in the Eastern League will converge at Hadlock Field on Wednesday for the latest installment of the Double-A All-Star Classic. The hometown Sea Dogs will be well-represented as the annual event shifts back to Portland for the first time since 2005. “The Sea Dogs are honored to have been selected by the Eastern […]
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Notices Sabattus Rec plans two running events The Sabattus Rec Club Running Program will hold two running events in July. The first will be a free Kids’ Fun Run to be held during the Town Fun Day, Thursday, July 9, at 6 p.m. The Town Fun Day is an annual barbeque event for all Sabattus […]
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Area roundup: Bates’ men claim first NESCAC rowing title
WORCESTER, Mass. — The Bates men’s rowing team claimed its first New England Small College Athletic Conference Championship on Sunday at the ECAC National Invitational Rowing Championships, as the first varsity eight from a NESCAC school to finish the men’s varsity eight grand final. Bates’ MV8 claimed the bronze medal in the grand final. The […]
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Sea Dogs play twinbill to start season
PORTLAND — The Portland Sea Dogs kicked off their 22nd season with an Opening Day split of a doubleheader with the Reading Fightin Phils, winning Game 1 4-2 and dropping Game 2 9-0. The Sea Dogs offense got off to a quick start, with Keury De La Cruz hitting a three-run home run off of […]
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Home opener postponed: Mother Nature throws Sea Dogs a curve
The Sea Dogs have made the call: Opening Day has been cancelled due to snow. pic.twitter.com/ivjde04Pz8 — Danielle Waugh (@DanielleWaugh) April 9, 2015 PORTLAND — The Portland Sea Dogs are getting shut out by Mother Nature after all. Officials with the minor league team say conditions at Hadlock Field are “unplayable” and they will postpone the […]
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Portland Sea Dogs: Getting used to the cold, each other
PORTLAND — The long-standing appeal of clutching an April ticket to a Portland Sea Dogs game in your frostbitten fingers is the knowledge that you are bound to observe a blue-chip prospect on the fast track to Boston. In fact, you’d better catch them while they’re hot and before the weather gets warm. Jacoby Ellsbury (2007) […]
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RubberDucks squeak by struggling Sea Dogs for sweep
PORTLAND — These are not last spring’s Portland Sea Dogs. They’re barely last month’s Portland Sea Dogs. Thursday’s doubleheader sweep at the hands of Akron provided more evidence that the Sea Dogs are suffering from the talent drain that inevitably occurs whenever a minor league team piles up wins at a historic clip as Portland […]
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Fear didn’t strike out Sea Dogs pitcher
PORTLAND — Brian Johnson isn’t just willing to return to the scene of his worst nightmare. He’s doing everything in his power to make it happen. If he continues pitching as well he has been this season, including since his May 2 promotion to the Portland Sea Dogs, he may be back on the Fenway […]
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Eastern League: Baysox walk over Sea Dogs
PORTLAND — For anyone needing a break from the trials, tribulations and overall impotence of their parent club, the Portland Sea Dogs have presented a much more frisky and entertaining alternative through the first two months of the 2014 season. The Boston Red Sox’ Double-A affiliate spent those first two months of the season running […]