For the second time in their last three games, Austin Post 91 left the game winning run on base in the last inning during a 6-5 loss to Waseca in Marcusen Park Thursday in a Legion baseball game.

In the bottom of the seventh, Sam Stier reached on a walk and Andrew Orcutt hustled to get to first on a fielding error by Waseca to put runners on first and second with one out. But Waseca’s right fielder robbed Adam Hemann of a base hit with a running grab in shallow right and Jake Winters grounded into a fielder’s choice to end the game.

“It’s like our game in Rochester Tuesday, where we had the tying and winning run on and we couldn’t get the big hit,” Post 91 head coach Bob Stratton said. “That’s kind of been our M.O. lately.”

Waseca took the lead in the top of the seventh when Erik Simmons led off with a double off of Austin reliever John Kirby. Simmons scored on a sacrifice fly by Chris Glynn.

Austin (5-7 overall, 4-4 District 1) led 5-1 after four, but Waseca’s Kelvin Nelson hit a one out triple to clear the bases and Shawn Hayes laced an RBI single to tie the game at 5 in the top of the sixth.

“There were a couple of plays in that sixth inning that we should’ve made,” Stratton said. “We gave them five outs. You gotta make plays. But give Waseca credit, they did a great job.”

The sixth inning saw Waseca finally finish a rally off of Austin starter Dylan Monson. Waseca stranded 10 runners over the first five innings against Monson.

“That’s Dylan’s game, finesse and finesse, get a couple outs, a couple of guys get on and then make a good pitch to get out of it,” Stratton said.

Monson did a stellar job in the fifth when Waseca had runners on second and third with one out. Monson struck out Andrew Beckmann — who had a double in his previous at bat — and got Grady Glynn to ground out to third to escape the inning unscathed.

A lot of Austin’s troubles came from the plate as they mustered just one hit in the last three innings.

“We played some good ball initially, but the bats kind of went to sleep a little,” Stratton said.

Austin scored two in the second on an RBI-groundout by Jake Winters and a run scoring single by Nick Grage that saw Monson thrown out at home plate trying to score a third run.

In the second, Post 91 had a two out rally where Steven Rizzi scored on an RBI-triple by John Kirby and Kirby scored on an infield single by Andrew Orcutt.

Waseca 6, Austin 5

Austin pitching: Dylan Monson, 5 2/3 IP, 8 H, 5 BB, 5 R, 4 ER, 6 K; John Kirby (L), 1 1/3 IP, 2 H, 1 BB, 1 ER, 1 K

Austin hitting: Nick Grage, 1-of-2, RBI; Steven Rizzi, 0-of-2, RBI, R, 2 BBs; Duell Higbe, 1-of-3; Sam Stier, 0-of-3, BB; John Kirby, 2-of-4, triple, RBI; Andrew Orcutt, 1-of-3, RBI, R, BB; Adam Hemann, 1-of-4, double, R; Jake Winters, 0-of-2, RBI, R, BB; Dylan Monson, 0-of-2, BB; Jordan Hall, 0-of-2

Waseca pitching: Kelvin Nelson (W), 7 IP, 6 H, 6 BB, 5 R, 1 K

Waseca hitting: Chris Glynn, 1-of-5, RBI; Kelvin Nelson, 2-of-4, triple, 3 RBIs; Shawn Hayes, 2-of-5, RBI; Andrew Beckmann, 2-of-4, double, RBI; Danny Cromer, 0-of-2, 2 BBs; Grady Glynn, 0-of-4; Erik Simmons, 2-of-3, double; Dan Bomsta, 1-of-2; Zack Matejcek, 0-of-3