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Nearly 6,000 fans were treated to an entertaining evening of pro baseball Monday, July 4 at Waldorf’s Regency Furniture Stadium. The end result was not pleasant for the home team. The Southern Maryland Blue Crabs squandered an early 3-0 lead, failed to capitalize on a chance to add more runs in the fifth and wound up losing to the Bridgeport Bluefish 5-3. The loss knocked the ‘Crabs out of the first half of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball’s Liberty Division title race.

The ‘Fish third baseman Luis Lopez and first baseman Wes Bankston belted back-to-back home runs during the top of the eighth inning to provide Bridgeport with its winning margin. The eighth inning blast was Lopez’ second of the game. Earlier, in the sixth inning, he hit his fifth homer of the season to make the score 3-2 in favor of the Blue Crabs.

All of the Blue Crabs’ runs were scored on Ben Harrison’s three-run homer in the bottom of the second.

Just about every Blue Crabs’ weekend evening home game is like the Fourth of July. Those games are followed by fireworks shows.