The Silver Knights mob Jordan Welch after his two-run walk-off hitTuesday night at Holman Stadium. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

NASHUA – Jordan Welch didn’t think it was that big of a deal Tuesday night.

Nah. With the bases loaded and nobody out, his Nashua Silver Knights trailing Worcester by a run, it wasn’t going to take much.

“Tying run on third, all you’ve got to do is get him in with one out,” Welch, the junior from Stonybrook said. “So not trying to do too much at the plate.”

Well, the Farmingdale,N.Y.native did plenty, lining the first pitch he saw from Worcester reliever Andrew Hardin down the left field line to drive in the tying and game-winning runs in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Worcester Bravehearts 8-7 at Historic Holman Stadium.

The announced crowd of 688 saw a wild one with a wild finish for the 16-14 Silver Knights’ fifth straight win. Nashua, down 3-0 early, rallied and led 5-4 before Worcester tied it on a wild pitch in the eighth and then grabbed a 7-5 lead in the top of the 10th on a passed ball and RBI double by the Braveheart Jake Yang.

But what burned Worcester last night were its 11 walks and one hit by pitch as the Knights only had six hits. Nashua scored two in the third without a hit and got three in the fifth thanks to a throwing error on a wild play.

Then in the bottom of the 10th, with the automatic runner at second, Hardin plunked Caleb Vacchiano leading off the bottom of the 10th. Peter Keblinsky singled in a run to make it 7-6, then Hudson Story worked a competitive walk on a 3-2 pitch to load ’em up.

Then Welch did his thing.

“I told them in a mound visit (in the 10th) I don’t care if they score,” Silver Knights manager Nick Guarino said. “I’m comfortable with our lineup with a guy at second base and no outs.”

Welch hasn’t played that much, hitting.174 in eight games. But he has a vicious swing and went 2 for 4 last night as the DH.

“Hits the ball hard every time he’s up,” Guarino said. “Hits it 110 (mph) every time up. … gets his hands down, that’s what he does and hits 112.

“It’s good now we’re winning close games and getting a little battle tested,” Before a lot of our wins were big wins, now the last two (5-3 over Norwich Monday) we had a little pressure on you there.”

Nashua’s Michael Crowley delivers a pitch in the second inning of Tuesday night’s FCBL game vs. Worcester at Historic Holman Stadium. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

The only negative, Worcester ran roughshod on the bases, stealing seven.

“Our pitchers did a real bad job of holding runners on,” Guarino said. “We talked about that after the game. The positives are we won a real close game. They were able to get second base pretty free and third base pretty free.”

This was an unlikely win in a way. The Knights were without arguably their best hitter, Connor Smith, who was at the FCBL Prospects Game in Norwich. They’re down two starting pitchers and last night started an incoming Brown freshman Neil Mackinnon, who lasted just one inning, but his three-runs allowed could have been worse and the Knights bullpen did a good job. Jameson Dobis got the win, allowing the two runs in the 10th but was pretty effective in the ninth. Ryan Maiorano was superb allowing one run in an otherwise effective three frames, and lefty Michael Crowley tossed two scoreless.

“We’re winning games without everybody right now, which is great,” Guarino said.

Good times. Good win.