Jon Harris can’t seem to catch a break this season. Despite another strong performance, his efforts weren’t enough as the New Hampshire Fisher Cats fell to the Hartford Yard Goats 5-0 on Monday night.
Harris (1-3) allowed only one run in his seven-inning outing and it wasn’t an earned run. That run came in the first. Harris began that inning with by allowing a pair of singles, but bounced back with a pair of outs. Then, Omar Carrizales came home on a double steal that saw Drew Weeks eventually make it to third.
Over the next six innings, Harris would allow just five more hits and strike out six, but he couldn’t get any offensive support.
Four Hartford pitchers combined to limit New Hampshire to just four hits, although starter Konner Wade was one out short of the five innings he needed to earn the win.
That honor went to Troy Neiman (1-1), who recorded five outs in relief of Wade.
This marks the fifth time New Hampshire has been shut out this season, compared to seven shutouts all of last year.
Jose Fernandez allowed four more Hartford runs in the eighth, leaving after getting out only two Yard Goat batters.
In addition to Carrizales’ steal, he went 4-for-4 at the plate, adding another run off Fernandez in the eighth.
Dom Nuñez and Ashley Graeter also had multi-hit days for Hartford, both getting two hits apiece off New Hampshire pitching.
The two teams will meet again on Tuesday for a 7:05 p.m. contest. Shane Dawson (1-3, 4.97 ERA) will take the mound for New Hampshire while Hartford’s Parker French (1-2, 4.10 ERA) will look for a better result against the Fisher Cats than his outings against them on April 14 and 21.
