PULASKI -- Everything was all set for the party to begin.

The Pulaski Blue Jays were one out away from a duel celebration of a three-hit shutout of the Greeneville Astros and the announcement that the home team's Travis Snider had just been voted the Appalachian League's MVP.

Then everything went horribly haywire.

Ninth inning: passed ball, error, wild pitch by Pulaski, two runs score to tie it. Tenth inning: solo homer for the go-ahead run by Greeneville and then the sacks left full by the losing Jays.

The final was 3-2 to the annoyance of 714 Calfee Park attendees not to mention the Blue Jays manager.

"We gift-wrapped that one," Jays manager Dave Pano said. "Let's not sugarcoat it. We gave that one away."

Squandered like easy lottery winnings was eight innings of blank-job pitching by Kyle Walter and successors Kyle Ginley and Nathan Melek. Ginley, who again piggy-backed after two innings of work by the pitch-limited Walter, went five, fanning 10. That gave him 20 whiffs in his last two Calfee Park relief appearances.

Pulaski closer Nathan Starner didn't get the third and hopefully last out fast enough to earn his fifth save. Then Adam Rogers served up a juicy one that Brandon Caipen redirected over the left field fence in the 10th.

All of this misery might have been avoided had the Jays been luckier in the seventh. Ahead 2-0, Jonathon Del Camp delivered an apparent two-out RBI double, scoring Paul Franko, aboard on a two base error, from second. However, the Astros, claiming Franko missed the bag, threw to third for the hoped-for out and had those objectives realized when the umpire agreed.

"I touched the bag," Franko said. "They teach you to touch the corner of the bag, which is what I did. You don't step on the middle of the bag; that would be retarded.

"But what are you going to do? Throw a hissy fit?"

"I didn't see it because I was watching the ball," Pano said. "The umpire told me that he had a great look at it and it wasn't close. I told him if he was going to make that call he better have had a great look at it and he said he did."

Notes

MVP Snider, hitting .325 with 11 homers and 41 RBIs just months out of high school, has missed the past three games with a sore wrist. He's day-to-day. He pinch ran in the 10th and was left at second. ... Walter gave up one hit and struck out the side in the second. He had four strikeouts in two innings. In all, Pulaski pitching struck out 18 Astros.

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Severino, Ladeuth (7), Santo (9) and Goethals, Pestina (9). Walter, Ginley (3), Melek (8), Starner (9), Rogers (10). W - Ladeuth (1-1). L -- Rogers (3-2). S -- Santo (9). HR -- Caipen (G), 10th, none on.