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

MLN Newswire - www.mlntherawfeed.com - Clearwater - 10  Fort Myers - 11  Box Score attached. - FORT MYERS , F.L. ( May 2, 2008 ) – The Fort Myers Miracle saw a 9-1 lead evaporate on Friday afternoon before a late-comeback sealed the deal in a wild 11-10 victory over the Clearwater Threshers. Thousands of area Lee, Collier and Hendry county students at Hammond Stadium on Education Day were treated to a combined 21 runs and 32 hits in the afternoon matinee. Both teams also combined for 14 doubles with each team slapping seven. With the win, the Miracle pick up their fourth-straight win, ninth-straight at home and remain unbeaten against Clearwater this season at 9-0.

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A sacrifice-fly from Matt Spencer in the Thresher first began the runs fest on Friday afternoon. The Miracle bounced back with a pair of tallies in the second before their biggest inning of the day, a seven-run third, put them up 9-1 on Clearwater . Eight of the Miracle 17 hits came in the third inning alone as Danny Valencia and Danny Berg each picked up two-run doubles, Edward Ovalle spanked a RBI-triple, Wilson Ramos snagged a run-scoring single to right while Yancarlos Ortiz capped off the frame with an RBI-double to center.

Clearwater picked up the pace with their doubles on the day with a pair of them in the fourth cutting the deficit to 9-4. John Urick capitalized with his RBI-double to center while Welinson Baez connected on his two-base hit plating two more. Ovalle , who finished a double shy of the cycle, connected on a solo home run in the Miracle fifth sending the lead back to a half-dozen.

A five-run fifth inning quickly brought the Threshers to within one as Gus Milner’s RBI-single to right, Tuffy Gosewisch’s two-run single and Baez’s second two-run double of the day reduced the Miracle advantage to 10-9. After a Urick groundout evened things up in the sixth, a bases-loaded walk by Whit Robbins would bring in Portes from third with the eventual game-deciding run.

Ovalle led all hitters on the day with a 4-for-5 afternoon. Ramos and Milner each registered three hits respectively, while eight other Miracle and Threshers had at-least two hits on the day. The 17 Miracle hits on the afternoon also eclipse the season-high of 16 set last night against Clearwater .

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