Round Rock: Free Baseball! Wake gets 9th-inning miracle

By Glenn Tanner - June 03, 2007

Leading 4-1 heading to the bottom of the ninth, Texas looked in control. But Wake rallied for three runs, the final two on pinch-hitter Brett Linnenkohl's two-out, two-strike, two-run homer.

Tyler Smith led off the inning with a single and, two outs later, scored on Andy Goff's single.

That run brought closer Randy Boone in from the Texas pen, and Linnenkohl from the Wake dugout.

Boone got ahead 1-2, then threw a pitch that just about everyone but the home plate umpire and Linnenkohl thought was strike three. (Texas fans are noted for complaining about every pitch, but this one did look extremely similar to a lot of pitches that have been called strikes today.) Linnenkohl then blasted Boone's next pitch into the RF bullpen to tie it.