Blue Crabs erupt for four in 10th to beat Revolution 6-2

York looked built for a win for nine innings at WellSpan Park, leaning on Nick Regalado, Jacob Teter and a late defensive rescue to keep Southern Maryland in check. Then the 10th inning arrived, Aaron Holiday lost the zone, and the Blue Crabs turned a tight Atlantic League battle into a 6-2 victory Friday night in York, Pennsylvania.

Regalado was sharp from the start, allowing just one hit through the first four innings and taking a 1-0 lead into the sixth. Teter supplied that edge in the second inning, drilling his 11th home run of the season to right field. Even when Southern Maryland put runners on in the fifth on a pair of singles with nobody out, York escaped intact after Mike Rosario threw out Ezequiel Pagan at the plate on a shallow fly ball.

The Blue Crabs finally broke through in the sixth. Phillip Sikes lined a two-run double to tie it 2-2, but Regalado answered with another escape, inducing a double-play ball after Devonte Brown made a hard defensive play in right-center. Regalado finished with a career-high-tying six innings and gave up only two runs, a line that should have been enough to put York in position to win.

York tied it again in the seventh when Jackson Ross singled up the middle, but the offense could not cash in on later chances. Ryan Shreve, Jose Lopez and Josh Mollerus combined to keep Southern Maryland off the board through the seventh, eighth and ninth, and Rafi Vazquez matched them with two scoreless innings of his own. For nine innings, the game felt exactly like the kind York wanted, a low-scoring, one-swing contest where one clean inning from the bullpen could have sealed it.

Instead, the 10th unraveled fast. Holiday opened the frame with a leadoff single, then walked four straight batters as Southern Maryland scored three runs on free passes. Shawn Rapp came on and recorded the first two outs, but another bases-loaded walk brought home the fourth run of the inning and pushed the Blue Crabs ahead 6-2. Endrys Briceno finished the night with a scoreless bottom of the 10th, and York was left to absorb a loss that had been hanging by a thread.

The defeat dropped the Revolution to 28-24, while Southern Maryland improved to 36-16. It also fit a volatile stretch between the clubs, coming after York’s 4-2 win on June 16 and Southern Maryland’s 24-12 rout on June 17, the game York described as a franchise-record runs allowed performance. After a week shaped by both a scheduling change to York’s 11th Annual Pride Night and a series of lopsided swings, this one came down to the thinnest margin of all: command.