Sea Dogs brave the elements for home opener
When starting pitcher Yordanny Monegro left the game in the 4th inning, the Apple weather app read as it being 38 degrees out with a feels like of 26 degrees. Monegro, a Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic native, had never experienced cold like this before when toeing the slab.
“Yeah it was weird,” Monegro said. “This is my first start in the cold.”
The cold may have played a factor in allowing the right hander’s only run of the game, as he admitted he had trouble griping the ball. In the 2nd inning, a hanging breaking ball was hit into the home bullpen by a New Hampshire Fishercat, just to the left of the Giffords Pavilion located in right field.
3.1 IP | 2 H | 1 ER | 6 K | 1 BB | 1 HR | 47 Pitches |31 Strikes
With players sporting everything from hoodies to the handwarms around their waist that are common with quarterbacks in a December divisional matchup, players were doing their best to stay warm.
The chill in the air likely played a factor in the lack of offense, as it often does early in the season. The game entered the 10th inning knotted up with one run a piece. After Wyatt Olds worked around a wild pitch in the first at-bat of the 10th, which allowed the ghost-runner to advance to third base, he created three straight strikeouts.
Come the bottom of the inning, with the snow returning and wind whipping, Max Ferguson snuck a base hit through the right side of the infield which scored Corey Rosier. The walk-off single was just out of the reach of Eddinson Paulino, the former Red Sox prospect who was dealt at the 2024 trade deadline for catcher Danny Jansen.
The Sea Dogs will carry on with battling the Maine cold, as they continue the series with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats Wednesday night.
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