UH rallies for extra-inning win
Pinch hitter Alex Sawelson singled home Marcus Doi with the winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning and Hawaii evened its series against New Mexico with a 4-3 victory tonight.
What was left of a Les Murakami Stadium crowd of 2,376 saw Hawaii rally after giving up two runs in the ninth inning to send the game into extra innings.
Doi, who was 2-for-3 with a walk, led off the 11th with a double and moved to third on Johnny Weeks’ grounder to second.
Sawelson fouled off two tough two-strike pitches before singling into left field to end the game after 3 hours, 55 minutes.
Matt Valencia (1-0) struck out two in two shutout innings of relief to earn the win for the Rainbow Warriors (2-2).
Victor Sanchez (0-1), who got the save in Friday night’s win, took the loss for the Lobos (1-1).
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I still don’t like Traps move in the 9th inning to replace the reliever with two outs. I thought he should have left that pitcher in until he faultered but that’s Trap. If he had a proven closer than that might have been a good move.
Completely agree. Fortunately, Valencia stopped the bleeding and saved the game. The Bows showed a lot of character coming back to win in 10 innings against a New Mexico team that’s a lot better than many people, including me, expected.
it was well reported that new mexico was the real deal you werent paying attention as usual