In less than a month at its new home field, Bicentennial Park, the Muhlenberg baseball team has already experienced its fair share of memorable moments. And the newest tops them all.

The Mules scored nine runs in the bottom of the ninth inning, the last eight after two were out, to stun Swarthmore, 15-12. The last three runs came on a walkoff home run by senior Thomas Pranzo. 

After the first batter of the ninth was retired, Pranzo began the improbable comeback with an opposite-field double. Muhlenberg cut the gap to 12-7 on an RBI single by sophomore Mike Carcich, who one out later scored on a long single by sophomore Steven Dimovski.

Junior Spencer Hobson followed with a double down the left-field line, and sophomore Joe Zito came off the bench to deliver the biggest hit of his career, a two-run pinch-single to left that made it 12-10 and brought the tying run to the plate.

An infield error and hit batter loaded the bases for sophomore Jason Hughes, who hit a ground ball to deep short. The Swarthmore shortstop fielded it on the backhand and tried to make the tough throw to second for a game-ending force, but his throw went wide and two runs scored, tying the game. 

That brought up Pranzo, who jumped on the first pitch and yanked it foul deep down the right-field line, prompting the Swarthmore coach to make the unusual move of replacing a pitcher with an 0-1 count. The new pitcher started off Pranzo with a ball inside, and his second pitch was over the plate. Pranzo didn't miss it, belting it over the fence in right for a no-doubt home run.

The walkoff home run was the first for the Mules (10-19, 5-7) since 2015 in a neutral-site game against Scranton (hit by Andrew Rava) and their first at home since 2013 against Franklin & Marshall (Brett Rosen). 

The comeback will go down as one of the greatest last-inning rallies in program history. The only time the Mules scored more runs in their last at-bat to walk off with a win was in 1988, when they plated 10 runs in the bottom of the seventh to shock Moravian, 14-13. 

After never having won a CC game in which they trailed by six runs or more after the seventh inning, the Mules have now done it twice in a week.

Even before the ninth inning, the game was an entertaining back-and-forth contest. The Garnet (20-12, 5-7), which has been nationally ranked this season, scored three runs in the top of the second, but Muhlenberg came back to tie on an RBI single by Hobson in the second and Pranzo's first home run, a two-run blast in the third.

Another run-scoring single by Hobson gave the Mules their first lead at 4-3 in the fourth, and the teams swapped the lead in the fifth, each scoring two runs. Dimovski's two-run single made it 6-5, but Swarthmore went ahead with five runs in the seventh and added single runs in the eighth and ninth.

Senior Evan Virno earned his second win of the season with 2.2 innings of relief.

Pranzo finished 4-for-5 and became the third different Muhlenberg player with a multiple-home run game this season, joining Hughes and Carcich. Hobson, Carcich, and sophomore Sean Habeeb had three hits apiece, contributing to the Mules' season-high 20 hits.