Riley's walk-off has Fire Frogs jumping for joy

Austin Riley prides himself on staying in the moment and not letting it overcome him. His reward was a chance to celebrate something he's never done at any level of baseball: come up with the game-winning hit.
Riley homered and capped a four-hit day with a walk-off single in the 10th inning that gave Class A Advanced Florida a 3-2 win over Clearwater on Sunday at Osceola County Stadium. In addition to his seventh long ball, the Braves' 12th-ranked prospect singled three times and drove in two runs.

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It was the second four-hit game of the season for Riley, who's batting .455 with four homers, 11 RBIs and seven runs scored in his last nine games to raise his average to a season-high .289.
"At that point, all I needed was a base hit and it didn't matter how I got it or how it came. I needed to get a hit," the Misssissippi native said. "[Reliever Jacob Waguespack] had been working me away with fastballs. I swung and missed at the first and he went back to it, but I stayed on it and shot it down the right field line.
"That was my first-ever walk-off, so that was a pretty neat experience, for sure." 
Omar Obregon and Ray-Patrick Didder opened the bottom of the 10th with bunt singles. A sacrifice by Jonathan Morales moved both runners up, but No. 7 Braves prospect Ronald Acuña Jr. went down swinging for the second out. Waguespack (0-1) intentionally walked No. 23 prospect Alex Jackson before surrendering Riley's walk-off hit, the first in the Fire Frogs' brief history.
"I just tried not to think about the moment," the 41st overall pick in the 2015 Draft said. "You really can't in that situation because all it will do is get you out of your swing. I try and figure out what the pitcher is trying to do and take what he's going to give me. I'm not trying to yank one out of there or anything like that. Obviously, you realize a base hit wins the game, but when you get in the box, you try and treat it like any other plate appearance and try and help your team win."
Riley singled to center field in the first and ninth innings. In between, he reached on a fielder's choice in the fourth and slugged a game-tying solo homer to left with two outs in the sixth. His seven long balls are two behind Jackson for the Florida State League lead.
One of the younger players in the circuit, the 20-year-old batted .242/.387/.389 with four homers, 14 RBIs and 30 strikeouts in 23 games in April. He's turned that around in May, hitting .462/.483/.846 with three roundtrippers, 10 RBIs and only three whiffs in seven contests.
"Nothing really changed for me. I'm just trying to get in the flow of playing every day," Riley said. "Ever since I've been in pro ball, I've been known as a slow starter, but I'm coming out of it quicker this year than in the past. Hopefully, it keeps on from here. I just try to stay as short as I can at the plate and do what I know I can do, even at a higher level.
"To me, it's just baseball. Guys are gonna have better command and when their stuff is on, it's there, it's top-level stuff. But at the end of day, they still need to come over the plate."
Riley's heroics made a winner of reliever Sean McLaughlin (1-0), who pitched a perfect 10th. Fire Frogs starter Enderson Franco gave up two runs on seven hits with five strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings. 

Phillies No. 10 prospectCornelius Randolph hit a two-run homer, his fourth of the season, off Franco in the sixth.
Threshers starter Seranthony Domínguez was charged with two runs on five hits and two walks over six innings, striking out seven.