News DeskDubai, UAE – The Arabia Wolves powered to their first victory of Baseball United’s inaugural season on Friday night, riding late-game heroics from Noah Marcelo and a pair of long balls by Taylor Darden to defeat the Mumbai Cobras 9–6.
Marcelo delivered the decisive blow in the eighth inning, crushing a three-run home run to cap a 2-for-5 night that included two runs scored and four RBIs. Darden supplied the early fireworks, going 2-for-4 with two home runs, scoring twice and driving in four.
The Wolves also leaned on timely pitching, highlighted by two pivotal “Fire Ball” strikeouts. Angelo Cabral extinguished a Cobras threat in the second inning by fanning Victor Vahlberg with two runners aboard, marking his second successful Fire Ball of the campaign. In the eighth, with Mumbai again threatening, Reese Miller replicated the feat, shutting the door with a high-pressure strikeout to preserve the Wolves’ narrow lead.
Miller earned the win after 1.2 innings of work, tallying two strikeouts—including the critical Fire Ball, which counts as three. Cabral (2.1 IP, 6 H, 4 ER), Akeem Bostick (2.0 scoreless innings), Quinn Waterhouse (1.0 IP, 1 ER) and Kristian Scott (2.0 IP, 1 ER) combined to navigate a potent Cobras lineup.
Despite the loss, Mumbai continued to showcase offensive firepower. Raul Shah smashed a home run as part of a three-RBI performance, while Brantley Bell reached base consistently, going 2-for-3 with three runs scored and an RBI.
The defeat snapped the Cobras’ four-game winning streak. Reliever Akeel Morris was charged with the loss after yielding three unearned runs in just two-thirds of an inning—all stemming from Marcelo’s go-ahead blast.
With the result, the Wolves improved to 1–1, while Mumbai slipped to 4–2 but maintained second place in the league standings.
