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Joes Pick Up Ninth Walk-Off Win of the Season, 5-4

August 14, 2007 - South Coast League (SCL)
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For the ninth time this year, Anderson notched a walk-off win, this time an 11-inning, 5-4 win over the Bradenton Juice on Tuesday at Anderson Memorial Stadium.

Down by a run in the ninth inning, the Joes tied the game to force extras.

Down again in the bottom of the 11th, Anderson looked to a pitcher off the bench to play pinch-hit hero.

They found their man.

With a 4-3 deficit staring at them and all position players except backup catcher Brandon Davis having been used, Anderson looked to staff ace Jan Granado to pinch-hit with two runners on and one out in the 11th inning.

With one out, Tanner Rogers at third base and Kevin Noles at first, Granado lifted a high fly ball to deep left field.

Bradenton defender Zach Woodward never took a good path to the ball, falling down right before he could make the catch, allowing Rogers and Noles to score the winning runs.

"I didn't know if he caught it, but once I saw the ball bounce, I took off," Noles said. "I knew if (Granado) got the ball to the wall, I could get home."

Granado emerged from a green and gold mob at first base pumping his fist after the hit, but the Joes again needed some late-game magic Tuesday.

Earlier, Anderson (16-16, 29-48 overall) led 2-1 from the bottom of the third inning until the top of the ninth. Then, Bradenton (17-14, 41-34) put Willie James on in the ninth, who proceeded to steal second and third and score on a wild pitch by Joes closer Joey Muro.

Later, with the bases loaded on walks by Muro and Tyler Addison, Nick Corbeil drove in the go-ahead single, setting up a one-run deficit for the Joes.

Rogers led off the inning by reaching on a dropped third strike, then moved to second on a Richard Quihuis-Bell single. Noles then banged a double off the left-center field wall to tie the game and force extra innings before the dramatic 11th-inning conclusion.

After losing 11 straight games to Bradenton entering game two of Monday's doubleheader, Anderson has now won back-to-back games over the Juice for the first time all season. The Joes improved to 4-6 in extra-inning games this year, while the Juice dropped to 5-5.

Chase Leatherwood evened his record with the win, moving to 2-2. Jim O'Malia lost for Bradenton, sliding to 3-5.

Noles finished 3-for-5 with two doubles, the game-tying RBI and game-winning run. Rogers, despite only going 1-for-5, was the only Joe to score twice.

The win was Anderson's second walk-off victory in four days, its ninth of the year and the Joes' 14th win in the team's last at-bats this season.

The Joes and Juice meet for the series finale Wednesday, with first pitch scheduled for 7:05 p.m.

"We're a team in the second half that doesn't think it's going to lose," Noles said. "If we're close enough, we always feel like we have a chance to win."

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