Mr. Walk turned into Mr. Walkoff.

Four innings after breaking a 41-year-old school record for walks in a season, junior Jonathan Toth did something infinitely more memorable: He hit a walkoff single in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Muhlenberg baseball team a 3-2 win against Ursinus at Coca-Cola Park.

The win, coming in the Mules' regular-season finale, gave them a final Centennial Conference record of 9-9. By winning three games in a span of 25 hours, they put themselves in position to earn a CC playoff berth, and now they have to play the waiting game to see if they'll get to play any more games. 

Muhlenberg is in fifth place in the CC, behind Dickinson (9-7) and ahead of Ursinus and Haverford (both 8-9). (Swarthmore, at 9-7-1, has already clinched a berth.) Of those four teams, two will earn the final two playoff spots, and there are three relevant games to be played - Franklin & Marshall at Dickinson, which was postponed from Friday to Saturday, Swarthmore at Haverford, which was postponed from Friday to Sunday, and Ursinus at Dickinson in Sunday's scheduled completion of a game that was suspended in the bottom of the fourth with Dickinson leading 4-0.

Losses by Haverford and Ursinus would put the Mules in the playoffs.

Toth's hit capped a thrilling game between two playoff hopefuls who have now gone into extra innings each of the last three years at Coca-Cola Park. Muhlenberg walked off with wins all three times, 8-7 in 10 innings in 2021, 4-3 in 13 innings last year and 3-2 in 10 innings this time.

The Bears (16-23, 8-9) opened the scoring with a run in the top of the third. Senior right fielder Caleb Tereska kept the score 1-0 by throwing out a runner trying to score on a short fly ball to end the fourth.

The Mules (16-22-1, 9-9) took their first lead in the bottom of the fifth. Junior Jack Kent led off with a double to the gap in left-center and scored on an opposite-field single by senior Christian Schwarz. After stealing second, Schwarz slid in with the go-ahead run on an opposite-field single by sophomore Brendan Hughes.

Ursinus tied the game with an unearned run in the top of the seventh. Muhlenberg put runners in scoring position in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings, but all were stranded and the game went into extras.

Junior Ryan Friesen began the bottom of the 10th by getting hit by pitch. After a sacrifice by sophomore Aidan Legner, Friesen went to third on a groundout and scored the winning run when Toth lined an 0-1 pitch into left field.

It was the fourth walkoff win of the season for the Mules, topping the previous high of three, achieved in both 2009 and 2013. All four of Muhlenberg's walkoff this season have come on hits, one each by Toth, Friesen, Hughes and junior Ryan Riccio.

Sophomore Ethan Brochin earned his second win in as many days with two scoreless innings in relief. He worked out of a second-and-third, one-out jam in the top of the ninth with a strikeout and popout, then pitched a hitless 10th.

Senior Quinn Rovner tossed the first eight innings in a gutsy performance just five days after being struck by a line drive. The righty allowed seven hits and one earned run, striking out five, including the last batter he faced. Rovner's fourth strikeout of the game was the 100th of his career.

Kent and Schwarz each had two hits for the Mules, while Toth walked three times to bring his season total to 32, topping the previous mark of 30 that had stood since 1982.

The stolen base by Schwarz was his 10th of the season, giving Muhlenberg three plays with double figures in steals (Kent has 16 and Riccio 11). It's the first time the Mules have had three players with double-digit thefts since 2013.

Before and after the game, the Mules honored their seven seniors (pictured left to right above) - Rovner, Zach Sager, Gabe Spiegel, Jake Swerdloff, Ben Kollender, Schwarz and Tereska.