MANCHESTER, NH – The New Hampshire Fisher Cats have never been swept by the Hartford Yard Goats and that fact remains true following New Hampshire’s 9-2 victory on Memorial Day.
Forest Wall went deep on New Hampshire’s second at-bat, bringing himself and Vinny Capra home, followed by an RBI single in the second.
Wall’s RBI was the first of three in the second for New Hampshire, answering an RBI double from Hartford’s Vince Vizcaino in the top of the second.
Hector Perez shut down Hartford for the rest of his outing, with Tyler Saucedo coming in to grab the final out in the sixth after Perez left with two men on.
Meanwhile, New Hampshire continued to add more insurance runs. Patrick Kivelhan went deep in the seventh, also grabbing RBI singles in the fifth and eighth. Wall also took another RBI from a single in the sixth.
In the ninth, Tyler Nevin provided Hartford its second run as a consolation to what proved to be a rare difficult day for Hartford against the Fisher Cats.
Perez (4-2) gave up two walks and six hits in his 5 2/3 inning appearance to get the win. Ty Culbreth (3-4) threw over 100 pitches in his loss, giving up four earned runs off 10 hits and two walks, striking out four. Three unearned runs also occurred on his watch.
Kivlehan went 5-for-5 for New Hampshire, the first Fisher Cat with five hits in a game since KC Hobson in 2015. Wall went 4-for-5 and Nash Knight also adding two hits.
The Fisher Cats now head to Pennsylvania for a three-game set against the Harrisburg Senators. Patrick Murphy (3-4, 3.14 ERA) is New Hampshire’s starting pitcher against Harrisburg’s Jackson Tetreault (2-2, 4.68 ERA).