Despite leading for 99 percent of the game, the RBI Riverpigs had victory snatched away as the Vancouver Mavericks pulled out a 9-8 thriller in the first round of the Dylan Baker Memorial Tournament on Friday at Woodland High School.
For much of the game, it was nip-and-tuck. RBI jumped out ahead 5-2 through 1.5 innings before the Mavericks tied it with a run in the bottom of the second and two in the third.
The Riverpigs regained the cushion with three in the fourth, but were kept off the scoreboard over the final three innings.
They finished with nine hits, two of them by Chehalis’ Jack Muller. Muller also pitched over two innings with a pair of strikeouts, giving up five runs and four hits.
“Not the result we were chasing, but it was good to see the guys play seven innings of competitive baseball against a quality team,” RBI head coach J.C. Workman said. “I left a run on the table by sending a runner at the wrong time in a rundown.”
