Down 3-0 after four innings in a must-win Game 2 in the Texas League Championship Series vs. Midland, Class AA Springfield extended its season with a 4-3 win Tuesday to force a winner-take-all Game 3 on Wednesday at Momentum Bank Ballpark in Midland, Texas.

Springfield trailed by three runs entering the top of the fourth inning against the Athletics’ Class AA affiliate after Springfield starter and Texas League pitcher of the year Ixan Henderson allowed a three-run homer on a first-pitch slider he hung over the middle of the plate to Clark Elliot.

Two-out RBIs in the fifth inning from catching prospect Leonardo Bernal and Dakota Harris drew Springfield (Missouri) within a run of Midland. Back-to-back RBI hits in the sixth inning from Jeremy Rivas and Darlin Moquete propelled the S-Cards

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