After playing Friday night's game in just two hours and one minute, the Portland Sea Dogs and New Britain Rock Cats decided to make up for the quick game by playing a slow, messy, drawn out game on Saturday night. 

In a game that lasted three hours and 55 minutes, had 24 hits, and 20 runs, as well as 10 errors, New Britain topped Portland 11-9 in the second game of a season-ending four-game set. 

Neither starting pitcher made it out of the fifth inning. New Britain starter Ryan Carpenter's struggles against Portland continued as he was knocked out of the game in the second inning during the Sea Dogs' seven-run inning. This comes after shutting the Sea Dogs out in April, firing a complete game. Since then, Carpenter has hurled just 8.1 innings over three starts, pitching to the tune of a 19.44 ERA.

However, handed an 8-3 lead after two innings, Portland starter Luis Diaz continued to struggle as he left after 4.2 innings, still leading 8-5. Reliever Heri Quevedo surrendered a pair of runs in the sixth inning, making Portland's formerly comfortable lead just one run. Quevedo lasted into the eighth inning but surrendered a lead-off double and left the game. 

Portland brought the usually reliable Kyle Martin into the game but Martin could not hold the lead, surrendering four runs in the inning and taking the loss. He left the game, trailing 11-9. The Sea Dogs brought the tying run to the plate in the following two innings but could not knot the score. 

The Rock Cats started the scoring in the first inning when Tyler Massey walked, advanced to third and finally scored on a throwing error. 

Portland tied the score in the bottom of the inning. Manuel Margot walked and stole second, coming around to score on Sam Travis' RBI double. New Britain jumped back into the lead on RBI singles from Jan Vazquez and Massey, pushing their advantage to 3-1. 

Portland responded, and in a big way. 

Two ground outs began the inning, and it appeared that Carpenter would work his way through an economical 1-2-3 inning. However, Forrestt Allday walked and Margot blasted a 427-foot home run over the left field wall to tie the game.

A single and three consecutive walks scored the take-the-lead run for Portland and ended Carpenter's outing. Reliever Chad Zurat took over and promptly gave up a two-run single to Keury De La Cruz, an RBI single to Dustin Lawley, and then issued walks to the next two batters, including Forrestt Allday which scored the seventh run of the inning. 

However, Portland's subpar pitching and messy defense could not hold the lead. New Britain chipped away with single runs in the fourth and fifth inning. Massey recored another RBI single in the fourth and Will Swanner knocked in New Britain's fifth run of the night with a double that ended Diaz's night.

Quevedo surrendered two unearned runs in the sixth inning. Juan Ciriaco reached first on an error by the shortstop and advanced to second on a wild pick-off attempt. An out later, Noel Cuevas sent a ball soaring over the left field wall, cutting the deficit to 8-7. The two errors in the inning were just a couple of the eight errors made by Portland in the game, including three by shortstop Tzu-Wei Lin. The eight errors shattered the franchise record of six in a game. 

Portland struck back for a run in the sixth to push their lead to two runs on a Margot RBI single. However, in the eighth inning, the floodgates opened. A double and a walk began the inning. He scored on a single and an error by the left fielder. They also got RBI from Cuevas and the other runs scored on errors, giving New Britain an 11-9 advantage. 

New Britain finally held the lead and the game ended after almost four hours of sloppy baseball. 

Portland and New Britain will finish the season with two more games on Sunday and Monday. Portland is 7-12 versus the Rock Cats in 2015.