The Nightmare Inning at Pasco
Kennewick’s baseball squad turns a close game into a 15-4 rout with a staggering final-inning offensive.
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Oh, but that tenth inning in the game at Pasco Sunday was a nightmare! When the scorekeeper finally finished figuring, he found that Kennewick had batted around and six over, put across eleven runs, and landed on Larkin for eight hits—three of which were two-baggers. Aside from the fatal tenth, the game was close and exciting. Pasco started off by scoring two in the second. Kennewick drew a row of blanks until the seventh when the first score was marked up. They followed in the eighth with three more, giving them a lead of two. In the ninth, Pasco chalked up two more and then the fun started. Lefty Copeland started the tenth with a hit. Devers and Stull followed with two-baggers, Sullivan drew a free pass, and Yedica singled. By this time the scoring machine was well oiled and before the fifteenth man went down, eleven men had checked in at home plate. Morain, who went into the game with a sore arm, was never in very great difficulties and held the railroaders down to 7 hits, issued two free passes and fanned out 12 men.
“By this time the scoring machine was well oiled and before the fifteenth man went down eleven men had checked in at home plate.”
The rivalry between Kennewick and Pasco is as old as the Tri-Cities themselves, and amateur baseball in the early 20th century was the primary theater for these town-pride battles. While professional teams now dominate the sports landscape, the local passion for a 'nightmare' comeback win remains a perennial constant in the regional culture.
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