FORT WORTH - Just when you thought the 2019 Texas Wesleyan Baseball team's season couldn't get any more exciting, stepping up to the plate: Alan Campero. In a tied game in extra innings, Campero took the second pitch and smacked the ball so far into left-center it banged off the scoreboard, giving the now No. 17 Rams (27-4, 8-1 SAC) a 22-0 home record with a 2-1 win in the bottom of the eighth. Texas Wesleyan won the first game of the doubleheader comfortably, 11-3.

Campero hit his second home run of the season. It's the first walk-off home run for Texas Wesleyan since Julio Iberra did it in a 7-5 win over McPherson in the 12th inning on February 18, 2017.

The Rams dug deep down 1-0 in the bottom of the seventh, earning their 13th win in games the team has trailed at any point. With one out, Mark Schreiner singled to right field and Josh Brown - who came in to run for Schreiner - stole second. After Jeddediah Fagg took a walk, Caden Williams singled through the left side - that's when things got interesting.

As Brown rounded for home, the throw to the plate was dropped, but Brown couldn't find the plate. It was ruled that Arlington Baptist pitcher Ricky Boren found the ball in time to tag Brown for the out, keeping the Patriots in front. Brayden Bahnsen did not allow this temporary disappointment to burden his spirits. One out away from the Rams' first home loss of the season, Bahnsen singled up the middle to score Fagg and tie the game.

It wasn't the first time Bahnsen delivered Tuesday. In Game 1 with the bases loaded and TXWES holding on to a 6-1 lead, Bahnsen hit a grand slam, which on most days would make the headline. Bahnsen, who led the team in triples coming into the game with four, earned his first home run - becoming the 10th different Ram with a home run already this season. 10 players hit a home run in 2017 and only nine managed to go long last season.

Parker Robinson got the win in Game 2 to improve to 4-0 on the season. Robinson came in with that 1-0 deficit and pitched two and two-thirds innings striking out four of the nine batters he faced, allowing no hits or walks while keeping the baseball off the bodies of the opponent. Ian Nash, Max Martinez and Steven Frederick all held their own before him, combining for six strikeouts and just three hits allowed in the first 5 1/3 innings.

A NEAR NO-HITTER
A pair of freshman pitchers almost made rare history, but fell one hit short in Game 1. With one out in the top of the seventh, TXWES' Jordan Granado allowed Arlington Baptist's first successful contact at the plate, breaking a possible combined no-hitter from Granado and starting freshman pitcher Justin Ward, who earned the win to move to 2-0 in 2019. It would have been Texas Wesleyan's first no-hitter since Mitch McLeod got one against Mid-America Christian on February 28, 2014. 

Still, the feat is in rare company - it was just the third one-hit game allowed by the defense in the last six years.

BAT STATS
Bahnsen finished 4-of-7 from the plate with a whopping 5 RBI. Williams completed a 4-for-6 day with 4 RBI. While Brooks Wallace started 0-for-2, he finished 3-for-6 from the plate to become one of the more reliable hitters in Tuesday's lineup.

Will Osteen, after striking out in his first two at-bats of the season, not only earned his first hit of the season, but drove in the Rams' third run of the day in the bottom of the first with a single through the left side.

WHAT'S NEXT
Texas Wesleyan takes its five-game winning streak to Bethany, Oklahoma for a three-game series with Southwestern Christian starting with a 1 p.m. doubleheader on Friday. Southwestern Christian hasn't beaten the Rams since 2016.