Adam Hall and his Canadian Junior National Team teammates carried a four-run lead into the bottom of the ninth before the Blue Jays struck for four runs on five extra base hits and a sac fly as the game ended in a 6-6 tie.
Hall continued his form with a 3-for-3 performance including a double in the ninth that got to the wall in left-centre.
Cooper Davis led off with a walk and moved to second on an Hall base hit before a wild pitch advanced both runners. With one out, Noah Naylor lifted a fly ball to left that allowed Davis to tag and score the game’s first run.
The Jays responded in the bottom of the first with a run on a RBI triple down the right field line.
In the third, Davis, Hall and Edouard Julien walked to load the bases before Naylor hit a groundball that the first baseman misplayed that allowed two runs to score.
A lead off triple to right scored on a base hit in the bottom of the sixth to pull the Blue Jays to within one.
Dondrae Bremner got into the act in the eighth as he led off with a single to centre, stole second base before moving to third on a ground out. A wild pitch brought him in to score.
Davis led off the ninth with a single moved to third on Hall’s double to left-centre. After Davis scored on a wild pitch, Naylor drove in his third run of the game on a sac-fly to left.
Three doubles, two triples and a sac fly led to four Blue Jays’ runs in the bottom of the ninth as they stormed back to tie the score.
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