They'll go to a decisive game three!
PERTH 5, ADELAIDE 3 IN ADELAIDE (10 INNINGS)
Perth: Brian Pointer (Philadelphia) was 1-for-1 with a home run and three walks. Matt Kennelly (Atlanta) was 1-for-3 with a home run. Warwick Saupold (Detroit) pitched five innings, giving up one run on four hits and two walks with three strikeouts.
Adelaide: Stefan Welch (Boston) was 2-for-4 with a home run, a double, and a walk. Chan Moon (Houston) was 1-for-3 with a double and two walks, driving in one. Virgil Vasquez struck out six in 6.1 innings, allowing three runs on two hits and four walks.
The game: Welch homered in the first to give Adelaide a 1-0 lead. Kennelly and Pointed led off the third with back-to-back homers to put Perth up 2-1 and Joey Wong's RBI single made it 3-1 in the top of the seventh. In the bottom of the seventh, however, Chris Adamson homered and Moon had an RBI double to tie it up. Neither team put a man past first in the eighth or ninth but in the tenth, Allan de San Miguel came through with a two-out two-run double to make it 5-3 Perth. Adelaide was retired in order in the bottom of the tenth.
Series status: The teams are tied in the best-of-three series one game apiece.
TODAY'S TILT
Perth at Adelaide