SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Zac Farry understood the situation: one mistake here in the bottom of the ninth and the Glens Falls Golden Eagles would be finished.

One tiny slip-up by the left-handed reliever Friday night at East Side Rec, and he could wave bye-bye to his summer pals and pack his bags for South Carolina.

But with his mind clear and his left arm live, Farry struck out Bryan Rose, leaving the bases loaded with Saratoga Phillies. For the next four innings, he kept the Golden Eagles in the game, and their bats finally responded to snatch a 4-3 NYCBL playoff win in 13 innings over the defending champions.

The teams will meet this afternoon at East Field (noon) in a decisive Game 3 of the Eastern Division finals. The winner will meet Elmira in the NYCBL finals.

"That was nerve-wracking," said Farry, who earned the win with 4 1/3 innings of one-run relief.

Glens Falls, which out-hit the Phillies 13-6, put runners on base in each of the extra frames, but couldn't break through until the 13th, the inning the game stretched past 11 p.m. Jake Shaffer and Kevin Mahoney smacked back-to-back doubles, and Mike Konstanty followed with an RBI single.

Bryan Cook led off the bottom of the inning with a homer for Saratoga, but the Phillies couldn't bring around the tying run. They left that potential tying run stranded on first base.

Glens Falls led for the first 8 ½ innings until the Phillies extended the game to extras with a heart-stopping bottom of the ninth. Ryan Powers doubled off the wall -- a hit that looked like it was bound to leave the park -- then scored when, with the bases loaded, reliever Scott Denault walked Donnie Webb on four pitches.

With the bases still loaded and just one Phillie retired, Denault induced a pop-up, then yielded to Farry, who struck out Rose on three pitches. It was the first of eight straight batters Farry retired.

"I'm used to being in that situation," said Farry, a left-handed reliever for Francis Marion, a Division II school in Florence, S. C. "It was exciting being out there."

Glens Falls starter Alex Pepe, coming off more than a week's rest, sparkled in eight innings. He allowed one unearned run.