Calallen outlasts rival G-P in 14-inning baseball game
By George Vondracek, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Texas | |
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services |
Second-ranked Calallen needed a little longer Tuesday night to ensure that wouldn't happen again after a trip across the Harbor Bridge.
Make that a whole lot longer.
In what can rightly be called an epic battle, Calallen pushed across three runs in the top of the 14th inning, two coming on
Arevalo's booming homer,
But Calallen finally got to G-P reliever
That made a winner out of Calallen's
Duarte and Busse waged a grueling battle with double-digit inning efforts.
The Calallen southpaw, who was the losing pitcher in Calallen's 2013 3-2 loss toG-P, exited after 10 innings. He struck out 12 with three walks and one of the three G-P runs were earned. He threw 147 pitches, 94 for strikes.
Although the sidearmer Busse was close with a lot of his offerings, he wound up throwing a whopping 169 pitches, 100 for strikes in 11 innings. He fanned seven, walked six (one intentionally) hit two batters and was charged with three of Calallen's runs.
Duarte and Calallen had the upper hand through six-plus innings. That all changed in the seventh.
Calallen took a 1-0 lead in the first when
Duarte retired the first 10 G-P batters before Martinez one-out single in the fourth. He scored on Sturgeon's single to right, cutting Calallen's lead in half.
But Calallen got the run back in the sixth, with Duarte giving himself some insurance with an RBI double, driving in Barrett, who singled with an out.
Calallen 6, G-P 3 (14)
Cal 110 001 000 000 03 -- 6 11 3
G-P 000 100 200 000 00 -- 3 6 4
W --
Records -- Calallen 26-2 overall, 8-0 district; G-P 15-10-1, 4-5.
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