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In the bottom of the ninth, Dave Krynzel singled and advanced to third base with the potential tying run, but he was left stranded when Jonathan Tucker popped up to end the game.

Tucker walked to lead off the eighth inning, and Daniel Figueroa was hit by a pitch before Josh Bell drove them both home with a double. But Bell was thrown out trying to take third base on the play.

Each team scored twice in the first inning. After tossing eight hitless innings in his last outing, Bowie starting pitcher Brandon Erbe surrendered run-scoring doubles to Cooper and Adam Calderone in the first inning on Wednesday. Bell and Eric Crozier hit back-to-back homers in the bottom of the first off New Hampshire starter Adrian Martin.

Erbe had a rough outing, walking five in four innings. New Hampshire got a run in the fifth off reliever Zach Clark. Darin Mastroianni gave the Fisher Cats a 3-2 lead with an RBI single. Ryan Rodriguez tossed two shutout innings for Bowie, before New Hampshire got the tying and winning runs in the ninth off Jim Hoey.

The Baysox (61-55) are 11 1/2 games behind first-place Akron and 2 1/2 games behind second-place Reading in the Eastern League's Southern Division. The top two teams in the division will make the playoffs when the season ends on Sept. 7. Bowie and New Hampshire have split the first two games of their three-game series, which wraps up with a 7:05 p.m. game on Thursday.