Box Score MENLO, Calif. -- A walk-off solo home run in the bottom of the 10th inning gave The Master's baseball team a 13-12 loss to the Menlo Oaks Friday in Atherton, Calif.
The Mustangs (15-8, 4-6) put up crooked numbers in five of the first nine innings, banging out 12 hits, but it was the one hit in the bottom of the 10th by Menlo's Jake Koeper that was the difference-maker.
TMU got the scoring started in the top of the second when an error by the Oaks shortstop allowed
Kobe Katayama to score. That was followed by
Ryan Mathiesen's sac fly to center that scored both
Conor Christiansen and
Tommy Gwinn to make it 3-0.
After Menlo scored two in the bottom of the second, The Master's added two more in the top of the fifth when
Ty Beck's single scored
Austin Young and
Cason Brownell's fielder's choice plated Mathiesen.
An Oaks grand slam in the bottom of the fifth made it 6-5. They added three more in the sixth from a 2-run triple and a single to go up 9-5
But the Mustangs answered in the top of the seventh when
Davis Beavers hit a single that scored both Beck and Brownell to cut the difference to 9-7.
After an Oaks sacrifice fly made it 10-7, Beck stepped up and hit a 2-run home run to make it a 1-run game 10-9.
The Oaks put another run on the board in the bottom of the eighth to go up by two, but in the top of the ninth, Christiansen blasted a 3-run home run to put The Master's on top 12-11.
An RBI single to right tied the game in the bottom of the ninth to set up Koeper's heroics in the extra frame.
Beck finished the game 4 for 6 with the home run and three RBI, while Christiansen went 2 for 4 with his dinger and three RBI.
Both of these teams will square off for a doubleheader Saturday, with the game one first pitch happening at 11 a.m.
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