The wildest game of the District 10 baseball season took place at Seneca High School on Wednesday when Seneca rallied for a remarkable 21-20 victory over Eisenhower in Region 3 play.
The teams combined for 41 runs and 40 hits. They scored a total of 13 runs in the eighth inning alone.
“I’ve been coaching a long time, and I’ve never experienced anything quite like that,” Seneca coach Tom Mello said.
Eisenhower led 10-9 through two innings, and the game only got crazier.
The teams were tied 14-14 going into extra innings when Eisenhower struck for six runs in the top of the eighth. The win looked to be secure for the Knights.
Not so.
The Bobcats then rallied for seven runs in the bottom of the inning.
“Quite honestly, I thought we were done, but the way that game was going, anything was possible,” Mello said.
The tying and winning runs scored with one out when an Eisenhower player overthrew first base for an error, and the ball rolled down the right-field line.
Seneca’s Jake Trott entered the game in relief in the top of the eighth with no outs, four runs already in and two Eisenhower runners on base. Trott retired the side on four pitches – both runners scored – and, as it turns out, he got an unlikely victory.
-- Jeff Kirik