GRAND PRAIRIE, TX - The magic of the 2019 season continued Tuesday Night at AirHogs Stadium as Texas Wesleyan Baseball (16-3) once again came back from trailing to win a game, sweeping the 16-inning night from Arlington Baptist (2-8). The Rams easily took Game 1, 11-5 and won Game 2, 7-5 in nine innings.

The comeback wins are now up to eight on the season and Tuesday's was one of the most impressive of the bunch. After leading 2-0 through the top of the fifth, the Patriots rattled off a five-run fifth frame to take a three-run lead. That's when the cardiac Rams swung the bats - and the momentum.

In the top of the sixth, a Joseph Barfield single advanced Tanner Amaral to third, who reached on walk with one out. After Barfield stole second and Ellis Boyer was walked, the bases were loaded and the Patriots were in trouble. Jeddediah Fagg was walked next to bring home Amaral, as the pitching miscues started to once again pile up.

Despite a fairly clean second game, the Patriots pitching staff let the Rams get hope but in Game 1 there wasn't much hope for Arlington Baptist. The Patriots walked 10 batters, as pitch after pitch went short of the plate and into the dirt off a flat mound on the AirHogs' turf field.

Unfortunately for the Rams, they left the bases loaded in the sixth frame of Game 2, but Texas Wesleyan smelled blood in the water. With one on in the Rams' last chance to forge a comeback, back-to-back singles from Barfield and Amaral - both to left field - gave the rally life and an error by the Patriots in the field helped drive home the game-tying run to force extras.

In the ninth, Head Coach Bobby Garza made a bold move. Enter Parker Robinson - the pitcher for the Rams since one out in the bottom of the sixth - to the plate. It was Robinson's first at-bat of the season and on the first pitch, Robinson drilled a liner into the gap in left-center. Amaral doubled to left-center a couple of at-bats later for a RBI and Boyer - who also was seeing his first action at the plate of the season - got a single into left too to give TXWES the 7-5 lead.

The Rams worked the left field in those final three innings - even on the majority of their outs on pop-ups down the third base line. Robinson was the calming force on the other side of the win. His 3 2/3 innings saw four strikeouts, no walks and only one hit allowed. The majority of the late put-outs were thanks to first baseman David Pewenofkit who made a diving play for the third out to force extras. 

BAT TOTALS
Barfield finished 4-of-7 at the plate with 3 RBI, headlined by a double.

Bahnsen scored two triples - one in each game - on a 3-of-8 performance with 2 RBI.

Amaral got Game 1 off but came back in the second to hit 3-of-4 with a RBI (included a double).

After Brooks Wallace went 0-for-3 in Game 1 in the lead-off spot, he put two balls successfully in play in Game 2 with a RBI to his name as well.

In limited action, Shaedion Jamanika - who leads the Rams in hitting percentage through 19 games with a .419 average (minimum 30 at-bats) was 2-for-4 at the plate with a double and a RBI.

GAME 1 PITCHING
In the first game, the Rams allowed just five hits getting near equal contributions from Garrett Moltzan (who was credited for the win with five strikeouts and just one hit allowed), Justin Ward and Steven Frederick.

WHAT'S NEXT
Sooner Athletic Conference play starts Friday when Central Christian comes to sycamore Park for a 1 p.m. doubleheader Friday and the final game of three on Saturday at 12 p.m. Texas Wesleyan has defeated the Tigers in all five meetings.