Great Comeback Falls Short

Gabe's little league all star team staged a dramatic comeback, but lost their second game in extra innings, 5-4.

The game, postponed after the third inning due to rain on Sunday, was continued last night. The game started at the top of the fourth inning, the Safety Harbor all stars down 3-1. Gabe's team gave up another run, falling to a 4-1 deficit. The team fought back, however, and made a couple of great plays, including stealing home to tie it 4-4.

At the bottom of the 6th inning, with two outs and West Pasco all stars on 2nd and 3rd, Gabe's teammate playing short stop, Logan, made a great stop of a grounder up the middle and rifled it over to 1st base to end the inning, still tied at 4-4.

We then went into extra innings.

At the top of the 7th, our lead off hitter got a double. A running error on the next hit left him remaining at second base, which ended up costing a chance to take the go ahead run. The top of the inning ended 4-4.

On the bottom of the 7th, West Pasco again got two men on 2nd and 3rd base with one out. They hit a fly ball to center, but a delayed throw home allowed the winning run to score and the game ended with Safety Harbor losing 5-4.

The ride home was an emotional one for Gabe. The Safety Harbor all stars have one last game Thursday against Palm Harbor. Hopefully they can use what they've learned from last night's game to propel them to get at least one victory in the tournament.

A gritty, tough loss last night.