Box Score
LA MIRADA, Calif. --- What seemed like it could be an offensive slugfest turned into a pitchers dual on Eagles Diamond and ultimately resulted in a 4-3 Bethesda Flames win after two innings of free baseball.
 
Biola and the Flames entered play on Tuesday afternoon with team ERAs above 6.00, but you would not have guessed it based off of the way the two starters carved up both lineups throughout the first five innings of this one.
 
Jesse Yancosek took the rubber for the Eagles in his third weekday start of the season, looking to keep the streak alive of back-to-back Biola wins in his previous two starts.
 
The righty from Arroyo Grande was sizzling through the first go-around of the Flames' order, allowing just one hit and striking out five in what was easily his best outing of the year.
 
He allowed one run to Bethesda in the top of the fourth, when the Flames turned back-to-back doubles into the first run of the game. When Yancosek left the game after 5.0 innings of one-run, six-strikeout ball he was on the hook for the loss with Bethesda's 1-0 advantage and Flames' starter Jacinto Garcia making Biola's bats look like toothpicks.
 
Garcia was masterful and efficient throughout seven innings of work, striking out eight Eagles and forcing eight groundouts, making 16 of his 21 outs relatively easy. He and Yancosek each had separate stretches of time where they retired at least 10 batters in a row.
 
Biola was able to tag him for one before he left the game, tying the game at one with an Andres Rodriguez single to shallow right field in the bottom of the eight. The hit brought home pinch-runner Daniel Rasmussen, but left Garcia with a quality start, which is impressive for a guy who came in boasting a 10.80 ERA.
 
It seemed as if the Eagles were primed to take over the game once Daniel Sandoval came in to pitch in the eighth inning. An Andrew Frank inning-opening walk followed by a deep Paul Slater double resulted in Biola's first lead of the afternoon and set them up nicely with the go-ahead run on second base with no outs.
 
However, aggressive base running cost the Eagles dearly in that eighth inning as Slater got caught trying to steal third on a pitch in the dirt and following that Andrew Smith walked, stole second and then got picked off to end any offense for that inning.
 
Daniel Jang took the hill in the top of the ninth with a one-run lead and a chance to earn his second save of the season. He hit the leadoff man on the left shoulder on a 2-2 pitch to allow the Flames a base runner.
 
A sacrifice bunt moved that runner over, and a single got runners on the corners with two outs following a beautiful strikeout by Jang. Daniel Juarez was 1-for-4 on the day, but his one hit was a big one as he got a two-out double to give Jang a blown save and put the Flames back ahead 3-2.

The Eagles scored once in the bottom half on a Rodriguez sacrifice fly, but the inability to score a runner from third with their final out of regulation caused this game to go extras.
 
It was Juarez again who was the hero for the Flames, getting a sacrifice fly off a Julian Jarrard pitch to push a run across from Bethesda in the 11^th inning. This run would be the winning run as the Eagles failed to muster any offense in the bottom of the frame.
 
The extra-inning loss sees Biola fall to 4-8 on the season and Bethesda rise to 5-9. The Eagles head out on the road now for a three-game weekend series at Westmont.