AUBURNDALE, Fla. – The Kalamazoo College baseball team produced a late-inning comeback Saturday morning against Babson College, but the end result was as rare as they come in baseball. The two teams ended the game tied 5-5 after rain poured down in the final inning and the field was left unfit to play.
Finding itself down 5-0 and without a hit after four and half innings, Kalamazoo started its comeback in the bottom of the fifth. Brett Garwood gave the Hornets their first hit of the game when he salvaged an infield single and advanced to second on a throwing error.
Josh Reuter drove Garwood in with an RBI single in the proceeding at bat.
Kalamazoo remained quiet in the sixth and seventh innings but the bats came to life in the eighth when Jack Clark drove in two runs on a double in the left-centerfield gap. A single from Connor Grant driving in Clark left the Hornets down just one heading into the ninth.
After retiring the Beavers in the top of the ninth, Kalamazoo loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the ninth and scored the game-tying run on a passed ball and no outs. Despite threatening to walk off, that's all the Hornets would get in what proved to be the game's final inning.
Clark led the Hornets with his two RBIs and six different Hornets recorded hits in the game.
Each team committed three errors.
Kalamazoo will look to remain undefeated on its Florida trip when the Hornets take on Benedictine at 3:45 p.m. tomorrow afternoon.