7th Inning Walk-Off Sends Boneyard To Championship Series

Regulation play was not enough to settle the Bracket B finals matchup between All Runs Are Bombs and Boneyard Wiffle. Each team pushed one run across in regulation play. Boneyard struck first with a Ty Zadrozny homer to lead off the bottom of the third inning. All Runs Are Bombs answered in the fourth with three singles to lead off the inning and scored on a sac fly by Greyden Piechnick. Each team went down in order in the sixth inning. Rob Licht led off the top of the seventh, for ARAB, with a triple and scored on Piechnick's ground out the next at bat. ARAB took the one run lead (2-1) into the bottom of the seventh looking to force the if necessary game, but Boneyard had different plans. After a lead off flyout, Eric Diffendal bombed a game tying homer to left field to keep Boneyard alive. Cole Lanni followed with a single. Then, Chris Sarnowski belted a long shot to center field that was headed for a home run, ARAB's outfielder batted the ball back in play and scrambled to throw it back into the pitchers circle, but they could not get it in before Lanni raced around the bases to score the winning run from first base. Lanni was the winning pitcher, as well. He threw all seven innings, gave up five hits, struck out five and walked one. Brett Carosone got tabbed with the loss for ARAB, he too threw a complete game, gave up five hits, but walked three and struck out two.

Date: July 12, 2021     Time: 8:30pm      Venue: Cecil Park