Magnolia played it best game of the year Saturday beating the Rainier's 5-3. Magnolia fell behind early (again, too big of a trend) and nibbled back and finally took the lead in the sixth inning.
Chris Luttinen took the mound and was impressive for four innings. Stuart Fairchild came on the pitch the last three innings, holding the Rainier's scoreless. Stuart was helped by fantastic defense behind him.
Ben Thomson led off the game with a single and was driven home by Tino Peleti. In the second Andrew Kennedy lead off with a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jimmy “I’m Back” Sheldrup. Mitchell Smith lead off the fourth inning with a double, stole third and scored on Sam Deane’s ground out to second.
Magnolia took the lead for good in the sixth. Campy Queen led off with a double and scored on Mitchell Smith’s second hit of the night. After a pair of walks, Mitchell score a big insurance run on a passed ball.
Finally with the lead, MBC went out in the seventh to get three outs and a win, but those are the hardest three outs in baseball. After a lead-off walk (the ONLY walk our pitchers gave up) and two flair hits, MBC was in big time trouble. The infield came in to close it off and the Rainier batter blasted a bullet ground ball to first that was snagged by Ben Thomson who fired a strike to Campy Queen who returned a strike to Ben for the double play. The next hitter (with runners now on second and third) hit a swinging bunt to third that a hard charging Spencer Hogger grabbed and fired to a stretching Ben Thomson for the final out!
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