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Perth Heat 9, Adelaide Bite 2 The Perth Heat came roaring back to win the second game of the Australian Baseball League's championship series on Saturday (early hours for US time zones), forcing a winner-take-all final game on Sunday. Bite starter Brandon Maurer had the Heat under his thumb for the first four innings. He struck out the side in the 1st, and went on to allow only two base runners over the next three innings -- a batter reached on an error in the 2nd and a single in the 4th. But Perth came out swinging in the top of the 5th, starting with a lead-off homer. A walk and two singles loaded the bases, then after a line out to short, two singles drove in three runs. Maurer got a strikeout, but then gave up a walk to load the bases, and he was relieved by Reed Brown. The first batter Brown faced, Heat CF Ronnie Welty, smashed a grand slam over the right field wall to give Perth an 8-run inning. The Heat added an extra run in the 8th on a double, a wild pitch, and a single. The Bite scratched out their first run in the 3rd inning, on a double by 1B Ben Wigmore, a sacrifice bunt, and an RBI ground out. 3B Stefan Welch led off the 8th inning with another double. Like the Heat in the top of the inning, a wild pitch moved the runner to third base, and an RBI ground out drove in the run. LF Quincy Latimore beat out a grounder to second for a single to open the 4th inning, but he was left on base.
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