Advance Tech’s Tyler Laverriere, left, slides in safely for a run while Fayette-Staples catcher Cody Petit, right, can’t hang on to the ball in the second inning of their Zone 5 American Legion baseball game, Tuesday, at St. Louis Field in Biddeford. (CHRIS BROCKMAN/Journal Tribune)

PORTLAND — There’s not much middle ground with the Portland Sea Dogs, these days, or so it seems. On the heels of one of their most lopsided losses of the season, the Dogs regrouped and hung a hefty 9-2 blasting on the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, before a sold out Hadlock Field crowd numbering 7,368. […]

PORTLAND — Jason Place has spent all of three days in New England, but he’s already figured out one very important thing. He’s smack dab in the thick of Red Sox Country. Place, a right fielder who was promoted to the Portland Sea Dogs late last week from Single-A Salem, could tell right off that […]

Above, a young Sea Dogs fan slaps hands with Portland mascot Slugger as they round second base in between innings during Sunday’s Eastern League game against New Hampshire at Hadlock Field. The Fisher Cats won the game, 11-3. (CHRIS BROCKMAN/Journal Tribune)

PORTLAND — Minor league baseball wears dual faces. Winning, and player development. The Portland Sea Dogs fell just short in the first part, Thursday, dropping a 2-1 squeaker to the Binghamton Mets before a gathering of 6,575 at Hadlock Field. That result aside, the night would have to be considered one more positive step in […]

PORTLAND — The Portland Sea Dogs swept their second straight doubleheader at Hadlock Field, taking two from the Binghamton Mets by 3-1 and 6-2 scores on Wednesday in front of 5,070 fans. In the opener, the Sea Dogs scored all three runs in the first inning when the home team got a run on an […]

SANFORD — The Sanford Mainers limped into the midway point of the New England Collegiate Baseball League season with a double-header sweep at the hands of the Newport Gulls on Monday, and that’s an understatement. The Mainers, currently 9-12 with 21 games to go, more like fell down a la Mary Decker in the 1984 […]

BOSTON — It was a game of firsts for big names John Smoltz and Nomar Garciaparra ”“ and Oakland rookie Brett Anderson. On a night when the 21-year veteran Smoltz made his Red Sox debut at Fenway Park and Garciaparra played there for the first time as an opponent, the 21-year-old Athletics left-hander threw a […]

Roger Federer holds the trophy after defeating Andy Roddick to win the men’s singles championship on the Centre Court at Wimbledon, Sunday. It was his 15th major championship victory, setting a new all-time record. (AP WIREPHOTO)

WIMBLEDON, England — Roger Federer was playing for history. Andy Roddick was playing the match of his life. On and on they dueled, Federer trying for a record-breaking 15th major championship, Roddick striving for his second, in a Wimbledon final that required more games than any Grand Slam title match in the considerable annals of […]