Watch enough baseball and you will see something that’s never happened. Once those who attended the Portland Sea Dogs home opener Tuesday at Delta Dental Park at Hadlock Field thaw out, they’ll be able to say they witnessed history.

The New Hampshire Fisher Cats secured a 12-7 victory in a game that started 45 minutes late due to a quick-moving snowstorm that hit Portland. The first 10 runs were all scored without either team managing a base hit. The Sea Dogs scored two runs in the first inning without a hit. The Fisher Cats then set the bar absurdly high with eight runs in the top of the second without so much as a slow roller up the third base line that somehow managed to stay fair.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the official statisticians for Major League Baseball, since 1961 no major league team has scored more than four runs without the benefit of a base hit. As of Wednesday afternoon, research into if it had happened at the minor league level was ongoing.

What makes all of this even more bizarre is that none of the runs were the result of an error. No infielders kicked a grounder in the dugout, and no outfielders dropped a routine fly ball.

Sea Dogs manager Chad Epperson has spent his entire adult life in pro baseball. He’s never seen anything close to what happened in the early innings of Tuesday’s game.

“One of those things. Baseball is a crazy game,” Epperson said. “Me being me, it’s Tuesday night and I’m going, I’ve got five more games left this week, and here I am going to the bullpen (in the second inning). In my mind, I’m not only managing this game, but looking at the bullpen so it’s not as taxed.”

It started in the bottom of the first inning, when the Sea Dogs pushed two runs across without a hit.

New Hampshire pitcher Fernando Perez plunked Portland leadoff batter Franklin Arias. After Marvin Alcantara grounded into a force out, Perez hit Nate Baez. Alcantara and Baez executed a double steal, with Alcantara going to third base and Baez to second. A wild pitch scored Alcantara, and after Miguel Bleis walked, Nelly Taylor hit a sacrifice fly to center field that plated Baez for a 2-0 lead.

Sea Dogs starting pitcher Hayden Mullins was sharp in the top of the first, striking out the side. In the second inning, Mullins’ control abandoned him. He walked Sean Keys and Aaron Parker to open the inning, then wild pitch advanced them to second and third. After Mullins struck out Je’Von Ward, Ismael Munguia’s sacrifice fly to left scored Keys for the Fisher Cats’ first run.

Consecutive walks from Mullins loaded the bases, and when Eddie Micheletti Jr. walked, Parker scored the tying run, and Mullins was pulled for Jorge Juan.

Juan hit the first batter he faced, Jace Bohrofen, to force in another run and give New Hampshire a 3-2 lead. A wild pitch scored Nick Goodwin to make it 4-2. Another walk, and another hit batter, plated Micheletti for a 5-2 Fisher Cats lead. Another wild pitch scored Bohrofen, and walks to Parker and Ward scored another run and ended Juan’s outing.

Cade Feeney was Portland’s third pitcher of the inning, and he threw a wild pitch for another Fisher Cats run and an 8-2 lead.

Finally, Munguia hit a single, the first base hit of the game after 10 runs had scored, giving New Hampshire a 10-2 lead.

It was a chilly 35 degrees at first pitch Tuesday. It was just the third game of the season, and the players just came north from Florida a week ago. Trying to get a feel for your pitches when your fingers are cold and getting colder is as mentally tough as it is physically. Epperson saw his guys throw a lot of offspeed pitches without conviction, and that leads to balls in the dirt and wild pitches. You start aiming and stop pitching.

“I’m not making excuses, because it shouldn’t be to that extreme. Unfortunately it was. … We’ve got to figure it out,” Epperson said.

Sea Dogs pitchers struck out 19 batters, but they walked 11 and threw four wild pitches. That’s how 19 strikeouts gets lost in the ether, and that’s how you become a piece of weird baseball history.