After a day off Monday, the St. Joseph Mustangs rallied from a 4-0 deficit Tuesday to beat Clarinda, 6-4, inside Phil Welch Stadium.

St. Joe’s summer college baseball team had lost four of their last six games before the win Tuesday.  They improve to 22-7 and 18-7 in the MINK League.

Cody Lane started the game for the Mustangs but didn’t make it out of the third inning as he allowed four runs on three hits.  He walked two and struck out three.

That was all Clarinda would get though as Ben Baker came on in relief and went 5.1 innings and he gave up just one hit and no runs, while striking out seven and walking one.  Baker earned the win and Mark Robinette picked up the save with a scoreless ninth inning.

The pitching of Baker allowed the Mustangs to hang around until their bats got hot.  St. Joseph was able to get one run back in the fifth inning on a sacrifice fly from Cameron Bentley that scored T.J. Dailey.

Then the Mustangs took the lead for good with a five-run seventh inning.

Dailey drove in Robinette with a single and then Spike Helms singled with the bases loaded.  All three runs scored after a throwing error and then Brent Seifert drove in Helms with a double.

Seifert and Dailey had two hits each to lead St. Joe.

The Mustangs are back in action Wednesday as they host the Omaha Strike Zone at 7:00 p.m. inside Phil Welch Stadium.  The game can be heard on 680 KFEQ.