Fisher Cats sweep doubleheader from Reading
Aug. 9—The New Hampshire Fisher Cats used solid starting pitching and the longball to sweep a doubleheader from the Reading Fightin Phils in a Wednesday doubleheader at Delta Dental Stadium in Manchester.
New Hampshire won the opener, 3-2, then rallied to take the second game, 5-3, before a crowd of 5,303.
Starters Chad Dallas and Luis Quinones (4-2) each worked five innings for New Hampshire. In the opener, Dallas allowed two runs on four hits, walking none and fanning 10. Juan Nunez (2-3) picked up the victory by pitching a scoreless sixth and seventh. (Doubleheader games in the Eastern League are seven innings.)
In the second game, Quinones allowed three runs on three hits, walking one and fanned seven.
Offensively, Trevor Schwecke homered for New Hampshire's first run, in the second inning of the opener. Riley Tirotta's one-out sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh scored Schwecke from third with the winning run. In the second game, Rainier Nunez and Miguel Hiraldo connected for two-run homers in the fourth inning to erase a 3-0 deficit.
The New Hampshire-Reading series continues Thursday night (7:05) and runs through the weekend.
