Heartbreaker: Rascals Lose Game 3 on Walk-Off Homer By Slammers

Brandon Peters hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to lift the Joliet Slammers to a 4-3 win against River City in Game 3 of the Frontier League championship series Saturday night at Silver Cross Field.     

Joliet leads the best-of-five series 2-1 and can nail down the championship on Sunday.     

Peters unloaded on the first pitch from River City reliever Derrick Miramontes.     

"It was definitely the biggest home run of my career," Peters told reporters after the game.    

River City scored single runs in the sixth and seventh to take a 3-2 lead heading into the eighth. But Erik Lis tied the game with a run-scoring single in the eighth to set the stage for Peters' heroics.     

The Rascals managed just three hits. Chris McClendon had two of them. Bobby Burk had the other.

River City, facing elimination, will send Zack Sterner to the hill in Game 4 on Sunday at 5 p.m. Joliet counters with ace Jake Renshaw, who led the league with 13 wins during the regular season.