POMONA, N.Y. --
Frankie Marinelli, have yourself a day. Marinelli was the cog in the Manhattan baseball team's 14-13 walk-off comeback win over the Stony Brook Seawolves, 14-13, at Clover Stadium Tuesday afternoon.
Manhattan (11-24) earned their first win at Clover this year and will stay there for a weekend series with Marist which is set to begin Friday.
It was a rocky start for the Jaspers, who were down by as much as seven runs, 9-2, in the top of the fifth inning but kept fighting. Marinelli and
Daniel Perez drew back-to-back bases-loaded walks to close the gap to five, 9-4.
In the sixth inning,
Trevor Santos and
Ryan Eaton clubbed a pair of doubles to make the score 9-6, and from there Marinelli took care of the rest. With Eaton and
Ryan Ash, who drew a walk to reach first, on base, Marinelli took 1-0 pitch to center field for his first career home run, and tied the game at 9-9.
Both teams were off the scoreboard until the final inning. Stony Brook stepped up first and plated four runs in the top on the ninth, off three singles, but the Jasper bats were ready.
Marinelli once again drew a walk and during Perez's at-bat, he advanced on a wild pitch before Perez once again, was given first on ball four, bringing
Pete Durocher up. Durocher reached on an infield single, which also brought around Marinelli, making the score 13-10. The lead was cut to two on an RBI double to deep left field by
Trevor Hansen, who has now provided clutch ninth inning hits in the last two games.
The game was deadlocked at 13-13 when
Trevor Santos hit a soft grinder to the Seawolves' second basemen who misplayed the ball and it went into the outfield, scoring
Alfredo Delgado and Hansen. A
Jacob Radziewicz single moved Santos to second, with both moving over on wild pitch during
Ryan Eaton's at-bat, who flew out.
Due up was Ash, but Head Coach
Dave Miller elected to pinch-hit him for
Jack Lynch, who was making his first appearance since the series opener at Texas in early March. Lynch drew a full count walk to set the table for Marinelli. Marinelli saw a pitch he liked and took a 1-2 pitch to left field to bring Santos the final 90 feet and walk off.
Marinelli finished the day with five RBI, a new career-high.
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