Fort Myers Miracle Game Highlights and Box Score - Adv A, Florida State League

MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com - Tampa - 5  Fort Myers -6  Box Score attached. - FORT MYERS, F.L. (May 15, 2008) –  Johnny Woodard’s walk-off triple in the bottom of the tenth inning sent the Fort Myers Miracle to a 6-5 come-from-behind win over the Tampa Yankees on Thursday night at Hammond Stadium. After the Yankees scored the two go ahead runs in the top of the ninth, the Miracle responded with the tying run in their ninth followed by the winning run in the tenth. With the victory, the Miracle increase their western division lead to three heading into game two on Friday.

The Tampa ninth began with a bunt single by Andres Perez and single to center by Seth Fortenberry . After a failed sacrifice-bunt attempt by pinch-hitter Damon Sublett , a Kyle Anson strike out by Miracle closer Rob Delaney put the Miracle one-out away from a 4-3 win. Delaney uncorked a wild pitch during Luis Nunez’s at-bat that put both runners in scoring position with Perez at third, Fortenberry at second. With two outs and a 3-2 count, Nunez blooped a go-ahead two-run single to right putting the Yanks up one.

Tampa closer Jose Valdez entered the bottom of the ninth and gave up three-straight singles to Juan Portes , Yancarlos Ortiz and Brian Dinkelman to load the bases for Rene Tosoni . All with one out, Tosoni softly rolled a groundball to second which forced Dinkelman to stop his progress towards second, forcing a throw to first by Chris Kunda , allowing Portes to score the game-tying run. Danny Berg led off the Miracle tenth with a hard hit single to center, coming around moments later on Woodard’s game-winner.

The first of three Miracle leads on Thursday night occurred in the bottom of the third. A two-out walk by Dinkelman kept the inning alive for a Tosoni RBI-single to left and Danny Valencia RBI-single to right putting the Miracle up a pair. Tampa responded with a run-scoring single by Nunez in the fifth, followed by a two-run blast to left off the bat of Tim Battle, for a 3-2 Yanks lead.

The second Miracle advantage came on a two-out, two-run single by Whit Robbins in the sixth. Robbins’ base hit brought in Berg and Woodard after Berg reached with a single and Woodard moved him to third with a double.

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