DAYTON – The Greenville Green Wave traveled to Dayton for a MVL Monday night baseball matchup with the Stebbins Indians only to have the game suspended at 3-3 in the top of the 10th inning of play with darkness setting in and no lights at the baseball field. The game resumed Tuesday at Greenville’s Sater Heights Park with the Green Wave plating 5-runs in the top of the 12th to earn an 8-3 conference victory.
“When you’re around the game of baseball long enough you’re going to have those days where everything will go right up until you need that one hit to spring things open a little bit,” said Greenville coach, Adam Eberwein. “This game seemed to be one of those deals where every time we get runners in scoring position the things that we needed to happen weren’t happing. It didn’t make a difference how things went, it just wasn’t going to fix its self – it was just one of those days.”
“That’s a league win, it’s important,” Eberwein added. “It shows the kids don’t quit and that is a positive we’ve seen all year. There is no quit behind these guys.”
Greenville took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third-inning bringing Stebbins to the plate to do damage over the next three-innings.
Stebbins plated runs in the bottom of the third, fourth and fifth-innings grabbing a 3-1 lead after five-innings of play before the Wave battled back with single runs in the sixth and seventh innings sending the game to extra innings.
“When we did get opportunities to score, we did score and the real positive to everything was when we had to come back the next day it took us a second to get going,” Coach Eberwein stated. “We started timing up some timely hits and started playing the way we should at the plate and ended up winning in 12-innings.”
Greenville pitching kept Stebbins off the board while plating 5-runs in the top of the 12 th earn the marathon victory.
“We did a decent job of getting the out when they came to us,” noted Eberwein. “We pitched fairly decent, we just didn’t put the ball in play when we needed to.”
With the win, Greenville improves to 4-1 overall and in conference play.
BOX SCORE
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001 001 100 005 8 9 3 Greenville
001 110 000 000 3 4 1 Stebbins
