Team White edges Team Blue, 8-7

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball

Back-to-back doubles by John Mathews and Bob Daliege led Team White to a 8-7 walk-off win in the bottom of the seventh inning this morning at Udall Park in a 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers game.

With one out, Mathews hit a Texas Leaguer to right field and scampered into second base with a stand-up double. Daliege followed with a blast to right to score Mathews with the game winner.

Daliege, a right-hander, pitched a complete game for Team White and picked up the win, while Team Blue's Pete Maldonado was saddled with the loss. The play of the day: A diving catch by Team Blue's  centerfielder Don Jorgensen, who raced to his left in the fifth inning and hauled in a sinking line drive  for the third out. The bases were loaded at the time and Jorgensen's snag kept the game close.

Team Blue took a 7-6 lead in the top of the sixth, but Team White tied the game in the bottom of the inning. Team Blue couldn't get a run across in the top of the seventh and the Team Blue players headed for the field knowing full well that the best they could hope for was a kiss-your-sister game.

Mathews and Daliege made sure that didn't happen.

Ray Garcia, 65, from New York, NY., received his TOTS' hat today and became the club's newest member.

The TOTS will take the weekend off and return to action on Monday at Udall. Game time: 10 a.m.