Fisher Cats make it three straight

July 03, 2009 02:24 am

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BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Al Quintana went 4 for 5 with three doubles and four RBIs and Brian Dopirak hit his Eastern League-leading 19th home run as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats beat the Binghamton Mets 12-1 last night for their third straight win.

Luis Perez (5-6) worked 6.1 innings, allowing one earned run on nine hits to pick up the win. He walked two and strike out four. Leon Boyd worked 2.2 scoreless innings in relief.

The Fisher Cats (35-44) opened the scoring in the top of the second inning. David Cooper (2 for 5) led off with a single and Brad Emaus (3 for 4, 3 runs) followed with a walk. Quintana drove them both in with the first of his three doubles to make it 2-0.

The Fisher Cats put the game away with eight consecutive hits, scoring five times, in the top of the seventh inning.

Spinners win on Garcia's single

LOWELL — Joantoni Garcia laced a single into center field that scored Chris McGuiness, capping a two-run rally in the ninth inning as the Lowell Spinners picked up their third win in a row, a 6-5 thriller over the Staten Island Yankees.

Staten Island (5-8) broke up a Spinners club record scoreless streak in the fourth inning, scoring two runs to take an early lead. Lowell had not allowed a run in 21 innings, a span that started on Monday night in Oneonta.

The Yankees added to their lead in the fifth inning on a "Little League" home run. Shortstop Kelvin Castro hit a dribbler in front of the plate that Spinners catcher Sean Killeen threw away, and the ball bounced into the right-field bullpen for a rare four-base error.

Lowell (7-6) got on the board in the fifth, loading the bases with two outs and scoring three runs on three errors by Castro.

Staten Island left fielder Neil Medchill quieted the Spinners momentum with a two-run homer in the sixth, but the Spinners slowly chipped away at the deficit.

In the seventh inning, Ryan Westmoreland (3 hits) roped an RBI double down the left-field and scored on a McGuiness double in the ninth.

After a strikeout and a groundout, Garcia singled into center and sent the team into a celebration frenzy behind second base.