Season-High 14 Hits Not Enough on Saturday
Manchester, NH - Even with a season-high 14 hits, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Blue Jays Double-A affiliate) were overpowered by the Hartford Yard Goats (Colorado Rockies), 12-4, on Saturday night at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium. Nash Knight finished a triple shy of the cycle for New Hampshire, and Santiago Espinal collected three
Manchester, NH - Even with a season-high 14 hits, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Blue Jays Double-A affiliate) were overpowered by the Hartford Yard Goats (Colorado Rockies), 12-4, on Saturday night at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium.
The Yard Goats (8-9) took the lead in the top of the second inning on a single by
The Yard Goats hit a pair of consecutive solo homers to start the third inning -- one by
The first run for the Fisher Cats (7-9) came in the bottom of the third inning. They put together three singles for the run. Knight opened the inning with a single to center and moved to third on a single by
Hartford extended the lead to 7-1 with two outs in the top of the fifth inning. Abreu tripled and scored on a single by Metzler.
Knight led off the bottom of the fifth with his first home run of the season, a long fly to left to make it 7-2. The Yard Goats responded with homers by
Espinal singled to start the bottom of the sixth inning and Knight doubled home a run as
Notes: Murphy left after 2.2 innings in which he allowed seven hits, six runs (five earned). It was his shortest outing of the season.
Winning pitcher
Five New Hampshire players had multiple hit games. In addition to Knight and Espinal,