06/13/2026
Where to begin? People who think the phrase "Friday night lights" is exclusive to prep football should be advised that it also applies to Pecos League scoreboards, which were lit up like holiday decorations last evening. In six games we had one team top 30 runs, three more above 20 and another five in double figures with only three of twelve teams scoring fewer than 10 runs. That, ladies and gentlemen, is high-octane baseball and it came with some last-inning dramatics.
Let's start in the Mountain North, where Blackwell trailed Garden City, 20-14, heading into the bottom of the ninth, when the Flycatchers posted seven runs to pull a 21-20 win out of their hats. Isidro Jimenez' two-run single tied the contest at 20-all and a later throwing error by Wind shortstop Peyton Lewis on a Kernan Alba grounder allowed Jimenez to score from second, ending the game at Blackwell's Morgan Field. Both Garden City losses this year have come at the hands of the Flycatchers.
Now we move on to Santa Fe's Fort Marcy Park, where the Fuego were leading Pecos, 15-12, as the top of the ninth unfolded. What ensued was a nightmare for the New Mexicans as the Bills sent up 25 batters, 21 of them eventually scoring before the last out was recorded. Santa Fe did push a run across in the bottom of the ninth but it was far too little too late as Pecos came away with a 33-16 win in a game that lasted 4 hours, 30 minutes.
One more comeback win to relate, this time in San Rafael, where the defending Pacific Division champions overcame a 9-6 deficit to visiting Austin by scoring four times in the bottom of the ninth for a walkoff 10-9 victory. The Weirdos had a 9-2 lead in the bottom of the fifth before the Pacifics' Aki Buckson slammed a three-run homer to make it a four-run game. Kyle Guerra's RBI single an inning later closed the gap a bit more but it was the fateful four-run ninth that completed San Rafael's comeback as a two-run safety by Jorge Lopez with one out ended things.
