SARASOTA, FL, November 17—The players on the Blue Sox and Belles didn’t travel all this way to play the minimum number of innings.

Tonight, the Blue Sox scored the winning run in the bottom of the eleventh when a wild pitch plated Gaby Velez, who was placed on second to start the inning.

The Blue Sox went down early, surrendering a run in each of the first two innings. A single and a walk tied the game for the Blue Sox in the bottom of the second, but the Belles jumped on top 4-2 on an RBI double from Alizee Gelinas and a single off the bat of Oz Sailors.

Velez came on in relief of starter Cam Ely and twirled five innings of one-run ball, keeping the Blue Sox in the game. They brought three runs home in the bottom of the fourth inning via two errors and an Alana Martinez RBI single to take a short-lived 5-4 lead. Amanda Giannelloni’s double in the top of the sixth knotted the game at 5-5.

Neither team would score again until extra innings, when they traded runs in the eighth and ninth. Janelle Calvet’s RBI single gave the Belles the lead before Velez tied it with a fielder’s choice in the bottom half of the frame, and a pair of Blue Sox miscues again gave the Belles the lead before Maggie Foxx singled to center with two outs to answer back.

After a scoreless tenth, Foxx kept the Belles off the board in the top of the eleventh before the game-winning wild pitch. She picked up the win and was charged with no runs allowed in 3 2/3 innings, striking out three. The two Blue Sox relievers were charged with just one run in 8 2/3 innings of work.

The Blue Sox take on the Belles tomorrow morning at 10 in a battle of the tournament’s two 1-0 teams.