Milad Ghaemi

The Force needed to get a crucial win in Game 3 of the SCCBL Championship to take the series and gave SP Ryan Losman the start considering his sub 1.00 ERA. Losman would go 8 1/3 innings getting 12 K's and only gave up 2 hits and 1 ER. The Force would then rely on LR Max Holtzclaw to go 5 shut out innings only needing 48 pitches, and the Winning Pitcher Justin Coleman who threw 2/3 of an inning getting the Force out of a jam in the Top of the 14th. 

Offensively, the story would be small ball as the Force drew 8 walks to 7 K's and had runners in scoring position or on-base the entire game. OF Junior Coleman would go 1-4 but draw 3 of the 8 Force walks. DH Drake Pierson had 1 of his 3 hits be a lead-off double in the Bottom half of the 14th, where UTIL Don Roethler would get hit by a pitch following this, both runners advancing on a sacrifice bunt from Ryan Williams, and after a Junior Coleman walk, Josh Sidley would get hit in the back leading to a walk-off win for the Force. 

The San Diego Force are now 2018 SCCBL Champions coming into the playoff bracket as a 3-seed but upsetting the Inland Valley Pirates and the Inland Valley Bucs. 

The Force will play the Invaders in a game at Madison High School, and you can keep track of all Force games on the schedule tab here on the San Diego Force Website.