Walker stole second to get into scoring position. Pearson got John Curl to fly out to center for the second out. Pearson worked out of a jam in the eighth when Walker drew a one-out walk. Jacob Walker followed with an RBI single to right just past diving second baseman Cayden Walker to tie the game and chase Mock, who allowed three runs (two earned) on five hits, one walk and one hit by pitch, striking out three in 4 2/3 innings.ĭylan Pearson relieved and the junior right-hander proceeded to pitch 4 1/3 hitless innings of relief, walking two and striking out two. Mock then made an errant throw to first on a pickoff attempt to allow the second run to score and the tying run to move into scoring position. He got Chad Washburn to hit a slow bouncer to short where the Berries got the out at second but were unable to turn a double play to end the inning and the Wildkats got to within 3-1. But he ran into trouble in the fifth when a leadoff single was followed by a hit by pitch and a walk to load the bases with no outs. Izak Mock drew the start and had a three-hit shutout going through the first four innings.

The Berries (22-9) jumped out to a 3-0 lead before the Wildkats (11-17) came back to tie the game in the fifth and eventually force extras. 'I knew once he got on second I was thinking 'just get a base hit, don't do too much, don't do too much, nice smooth swing, base hit.' I just came up, a ball outside, I kind of took it that way a little bit, nothing too hard, nothing off the barrel, but found a little opening.' 'I was going up there, I knew Shamari was on first, I was trying to get him over to second on a passed ball or something,' Long said.

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