Triston Casas hit a home run and drove in another run with a sacrifice fly as the Portland Sea Dogs won their ninth straight game, 5-2 over the Fightin Phils at Reading, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday night.
The franchise record for most consecutive wins is 12, set from April 20 to May 7 in 1997.
Pedro Castellanos broke a 2-2 tie with a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning, scoring Grant Williams, who led off the inning with a double.
Casas then hit his sixth homer.
Portland scored twice in the second to take a 2-0 lead on an RBI double by Ronaldo Hernandez and an RBI groundout by Ryan Fitzgerald.
Portland’s final run scored on Casas’ sacrifice fly in the seventh.
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