In its first of two exhibition games before the World Baseball Classic, manager Joe Torre's team fell into a four-run hole through five innings, and needed three RBIs by Giancarlo Stanton and a run-scoring triple by David Wright to forge a 4-4 tie in a game called after nine innings.
Both defences looked so strong that tries were always going to be hard to come by, and when the next one came along, it was set up by Flannery's angled run ripping a hole in the Rhinos defence, allowing Roby to finish off an attacking move he had himself started.