Marathon Men: Power win in 14

(Salisbury, MD- June 24, 2014)-  The West Virginia Power beat the Delmarva Shorebirds 6-5 in 14 innings on Tuesday evening at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium. The Power and Shorebirds combined for 37 hits over 112 at bats with ten walks.

Delmarva took a 3-0 lead in the home half of the first inning, knocking Power starter Buddy Borden out of the game after just 35 pitches. Jeff Kemp hit a two-run home run to open the scoring and Drew Dosch crossed on a fielder's choice. West Virginia plated a run in the third on a sac fly and cut the deficit down to one with a run-scoring single by Reese McGuire in the fifth.  

After the Shorebirds added a run in the bottom of the fifth, the Power scored once in the sixth on a Chris Diaz double and once in the seventh courtesy a two-base hit from Edwin Espinal to tie the game at four.

Each team had opportunities to plate the go-ahead or winning run, but neither club could score through ine complete. West Virginia had at least one runner on base in every inning except the 12^th while Delmarva had runners on in each inning except the fourth, ninth and tenth.

In the 14^th, Erich Weiss was hit by a pitch and scored from first on a double by Wyatt Mathisen. With two down, Ashley Ponce singled in Mathisen for a 6-4 lead. The Shorebirds scored once against Clario Perez in the bottom of the 14^th, but the reliever finished off the game and stranded the tying and winning runs on base for Delmarva.

Perez (2-1) earned the win as the fifth pitcher of the game for the Power while Donnie Hart (0-1) took the loss after giving up both runs in the 14^th; his lone inning of work. All nine Power starters had at least one hit and seven players had multi-hit games. 

West Virginia and Delmarva play the third game of this series on Wednesday night. The Power will throw Cody Dickson against the Shorebirds Mitch Horacek at 7:05 pm