MICHAEL PISTELLA Fort Myers Miracle pitcher Pat Dean (15) settled down after giving up a game-opening home run to Hector Guevara. Dean went on to pitch seven innings and gave up 10 hits and four runs Monday night against the Charlotte Stone Crabs.

PORT CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte Stone Crabs defeated the Fort Myers Miracle 6-5 on a bizarre walk-off double in the 11th inning Tuesday at Charlotte Sports Park.

With the game tied 5-5, Luke Bailey ripped a pitch from Ricky Bowen into the right-center field gap. Cody Rogers, who reached first on an error, scrambled around third base and fell down twice. He got up and managed to beat the relay throw home and catcher Kyle Knudson’s tag to score the winning run.

The Miracle led 5-3 in the ninth with two outs, but the Stone Crabs managed to tie the game when they were down to their last strike. Charlotte manager Jim Morrison put the runners at first and second in motion on a pitch from Michael Tonkin to Robby Price and Price delivered a single to right field that allowed Kevin Kiermaier to score all the way from first to tie the game.

The Stone Crabs led 2-0 early, but the Miracle scored three in the fourth to take the lead. Lance Ray and Anderson Hidalgo delivered RBI singles to tie the game and knock starter Albert Saurez out of the game.

Andy Leer drove a ball deep to center for a sacrifice fly that plated Ray for the final run in the fourth to put the Miracle up 3-2.

MICHAEL PISTELLA Fort Myers Miracle catcher Kyle Knudson (16) smokes a single to left in the second inning. Knudson went on to score on sacrifice fly by Angel Morales.

The Miracle scored two big insurance runs with two outs in the eighth thanks to Angel Morales. With two outs, Daniel Ortiz drew a walk from Eliazer Suero and Morales made Suero pay by smacking an opposite field two-run homer to stretch the Miracle lead to 5-2.

The Crabs answered in the bottom of the eighth with a run off of Nelvin Fuentes and added two more against Tonkin in the ninth to send the game to extras.

Miracle starter Matt Summers was solid in taking a no-decision. He pitched five innings and gave up two runs on four hits. He walked two and struck out one.

The Miracle (15-18, 43-57) will go for the series victory over the Stone Crabs (13-18, 42-56) at Charlotte Sports Park on Wednesday. The game begins at 6:30 p.m. with the State Farm pregame show on “http://www.miraclebase-ball.com”>www.miraclebase-ball.com starting at 6:15 p.m.