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Johnny Woodard’s walk-off triple in the bottom of the 10th inning sent the Fort Myers Miracle to a 6-5 come-from-behind win over the Tampa Yankees on Thursday night at Hammond Stadium.

After the Yankees scored the two go ahead runs in the top of the ninth, the Miracle responded with the tying run in their ninth followed by the winning run in the 10th. With the victory, the Miracle increase their western division lead to three heading into game two on Friday.

The Tampa ninth began with a bunt single by Andres Perez and single to center by Seth Fortenberry. After a failed sacrifice bunt attempt by pinch-hitter Damon Sublett, a Kyle Anson strike out by Miracle closer Rob Delaney put the Miracle one-out away from a 4-3 win. Delaney uncorked a wild pitch during Luis Nunez’s at-bat that put both runners in scoring position with Perez at third, Fortenberry at second. With two outs and a 3-2 count, Nunez blooped a go-ahead two-run single to right putting the Yanks up one.

Tampa closer Jose Valdez entered the bottom of the ninth and gave up three straight singles to Juan Portes, Yancarlos Ortiz and Brian Dinkelman to load the bases for Rene Tosoni. With one out, Tosoni softly rolled a groundball to second which forced Dinkelman to stop his progress toward second, forcing a throw to first by Chris Kunda, allowing Portes to score the game-tying run. Danny Berg led off the Miracle 10th with a hard-hit single to center, coming around moments later on Woodard’s game-winner.

The Miracle and Yankees square off in game two of the series Friday morning beginning at 10:35 a.m. Education Day II will feature RHP Cole Devries (2-4, 5.13) face off against Tampa RHP Eric Hacker (2-1, 0.86). Take your radio to work on Friday as the morning ball game can be heard on the Miracle Baseball Radio Network, WMYR AM-1410 and WCNZ AM-1660, beginning with the pre-game show at 10:20 a.m.