Extra helping

Phil Butch scored on Jacob Dempsey's double to right field to give the Wild Things a 5-4 victory over Southern Illinois in 10 innings Thursday night at Rent One Park in Marion, Ill.

The Wild Things overcame a 4-1 deficit to salvage the final game of the three-game series.

Washington started its comeback in the sixth inning when Nathan Messner hit a solo home run. It was Messner's first homer since he was activated from the retired list Tuesday.

Washington added a run in the seventh to pull to within 4-3, then tied the game when it was down to its final out. Kris Rochelle singled with two outs in the ninth and Jeff Beachum followed with a run-scoring double to force extra innings.

Washington misplayed two balls in the bottom of the 10th, but Ian Heisel got two strikeouts with the tying run on third base to end the game.

Maybe the key for the Wild Things is to pitch Mike Schellinger in every game. Schellinger (2-0) pitched two scoreless innings of relief and picked up his second win in as many games with Washington.

From The Southern newspaper's Miners' blog comes this quote from Washington manager Greg Jelks: “It’s a relief. I’ll take it any way I can get it right now. … It’s a positive. Anytime you can play as bad as we played - we had eight errors in the (first)two games - and to come out tonight and play as well as we did … and come away and win the ballgame, that’s something to build on.”