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Oldham Athletic Win Wild Extra Innings Match.

The Oldham Athletic Latics may have thought they had a safe lead of nine runs to four with only three innings left in the match at Edgely Park before some 6,500 Stockport County supports, but this is the sport of baseball, and no lead is safe in this “clockless” game.

For in the bottom of the seventh innings the Hatters of Stockport County plated six runs to take the lead with the aid of four singles, three bases on balls and a Latics error. Athletic answered with two in the top of the eighth, but County hit a threebee and a run scoring fly out to send the game into extra innings drawn at eleven.

County pitchers tried to hand the match to the visitors by sending home two Latics runners on a walk and a hit batsman with the bases loaded each time, but County batsmen drew the match again with two singles, two walks and a threebee. After trading two more runs each for a fifteen all draw after the eleventh, Athletic hit their own threebee followed by a single for their sixteenth tally, and County “ran out of steam”, making three outs on only six pitches by reliever Connor, thus sealing the victory at 16 runs to 15.