The Antiques Blue scored 3 in the top of the ninth and then hung on to beat the Giants 7-5.
The game was a see-saw, tied at 1-1, 3-3, and 4-4.
Rankin Lyman and Denny Brown took shut outs into the 4th inning. The Antiques scored first when Fred Baumgartner doubled and Brown drove him in.
The Giants tied it on hits be Curtis Brown and Marc Reclus, and a groundout by Ron Mingo.
The Antiques got 2 in the 6th. Steve Starratt led off with a single and Jim Brown moved courtesy runner Nick DiLauro to third with another hit. Baumgartner’s line drive turned into a double play when Lyman snagged it and doubled off Brown at first. The bad news for the Giants was that Lyman was injured on the play. DiLauro scored on a wild pitch, and Calvin Dang singled. After the Giants brought in Jose Mendoza, Dang was able to score on an error.
The Giants got one back in the 6th. John Angelesco manufactured a run,reaching on an error. A stolen base,groundout, and wild pitch was all it took.
Kelvin Joiner produced another “legs” run in the 7th to tie it at 3-3.
Baumgartner started another Blue rally in the 8th, reaching on an error. Denny Brown drove him in.
Angelesco led off the bottom with a double, and tied it at 4-4 on Marc Reclus’s hit.
Bert Rodriguez reached on an error to lead off the 9th. DiLauro bounced a hit to right to put runners on the corners. Rodriguez scored on a fielder’s choice, DiLauro scored on Jim Brown’s single. The Antiques got one more on another Giants miscue.
Joiner and Steve Ow-Ling combined for the 5th Giants run. Gus Manning made a nice play on Donny De Cordova’s ground ball to end the game.
How is Rankin? Hurt seriously?
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I don’t think it was real serious. He jammed his hip somehow by stepping in a hole or something as he was making the catch or the throw to first. He stayed in the game, but was gimpy for the rest of the game.