AUBURN - The nigh ended in walk-off fashion for the Auburn Doubledays for the second straight game. But on Tuesday against a different team, the roles were reversed.

With the score knotted 2-2 between the Doubledays and Mahoning Valley heading into the bottom of the ninth at Falcon Park, Auburn was determined not to see extra innings for the second time this week.

With two on and one out, Adam Calderone grounded out to Scrappers first baseman Chris Nash, who didn't even attempt to throw Victor Santana out at home. The Doubledays outfielder scored two runs in the crucial 3-2 win for Auburn.

Dallas Cawiezell got his first decision, a loss, after pitching just an inning. Santana had gone 0-for-2 with two strikeouts before leading off the ninth with a single up the middle.

“I wasn't thinking hit, I just wanted to get on base in the first place,” Santana said through a translator. “My swing wasn't feeling good tonight, so I was just concentrating on getting a line drive, not a home run or anything. It was a hit.”

Luis Sanchez then put down a sacrifice bunt to move Santana to second. Next up was Ben Zeskind, who was intentionally walked. Calderone then proceeded to put a pitch in play to give his team the win.

On Monday night, the outcome was disappointingly different for Auburn when Batavia's Andrew Brown hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the tenth.

“There was more riding on this ballgame than there was last night in Batavia,” Auburn manager Dennis Holmberg said. “Not that we didn't try to win last night's game, but obviously, the consequences of tonight's game, win or lose, were pretty big.”

Up five games in the Pinckney Division over the Scrappers, the first of the two game series had all the feel of a playoff game for the Doubledays, who began a six-game home stand on Tuesday, their last of the season.

“We've been in a lot of these type of ballgames, where it's close going into the ninth inning,” Holmberg said. “I said to myself, 'Self, this is a ballgame that when we get into the playoffs, it's fine as long as we don't play our games like in the past.' Where it's this 2-1, 2-2, 3-2 outcome. When it's the 1-0 ballgames. Last year we had a tough time, we lost 1-0 and 4-3 (to Tri-City). They're all games that I'm glad that we get a chance to play in because it's a chance for someone to be the hero of the game, though.”

Three of the other four runs of the game were unearned. Auburn edged the Scrappers, also by a 3-2 margin, in errors.

Marc Rzepczynski had a chance at a fifth win but two Doubledays fielding mistakes in the first led to an RBI single for Karexon Sanchez and Rzepczynski's own fielding mishap in the third led to a Mark Thompson score.

Rzepczynski lasted 5 2-3, throwing four strikeouts but no earned runs on five Scrappers singles. Michael Barbara got his first win in Auburn in 1 1-3 inning of work to close the game.

Mahoning Valley responded with the three Doubledays giveaways with two of their own in the second and third. Sanchez had an inconsequential fielding error at third base in the third, but Nash's overthrow to pitcher Mike Eisenberg at first base led to Santana's first score in the second.

Manny Rodriguez had a two-out RBI double that scored Calderone in the first for the only errorless run scored early on. Every Doubledays batter reached base safely, but Rodriguez was the only multiple hitter, with a single in third as well.

Darin Mastroianni stretched his hitting streak to 14 games. He also has a hit in the last 28 of 30 games.