Editor’s note: Due to errors input to the live box score during the game Sunday evening, a previous version of this story incorrectly reported the nature of Teixeira’s winning hit. The Standard-Examiner regrets the error.

In what’s become a likely divisional playoff series preview each time they meet, the Ogden Raptors and Rocky Mountain Vibes posted three more good ones this weekend in Colorado Springs.

Juan Teixeira — sometimes an outfielder, sometimes a first baseman, this time a designated hitter — helped Ogden avoid a cruel fate to cap the series Sunday, hitting a two-run single with two outs in the top of the ninth to deliver a 7-5 victory.

The Raptors (41-31, 10-14) trailed 5-4 and, had Teixeira been retired, the Vibes would have swept Ogden with three one-run victories.

Instead, Teixeira capped a 4-for-5 day with four RBIs, and finished a rally that was almost entirely his. The nature of the hit is unclear; live scoring initially credited Teixeira with a three-run homer but the final box score lists a two-run single with an error, and Teixeira scoring.

Once trailing 4-0, Teixeira hit RBI singles in the sixth and eighth innings before his ninth-inning winner. Dakota Conners added a sacrifice fly in the eighth, and Logan Williams singled in a run to precede the winning homer.

Rocky Mountain (35-36, 15-9), which leads the South Division by three games midway through the second half, got its 4-0 lead with a lot of singles (10 hits, four runs) over five innings. Quinn Waterhouse pitched two scoreless innings, allowing one hit, to get the ball to the league’s save leader in Dan Kubiuk.

Kubiuk took four batter to record his 14th save.

Ogden is 11-7 against Rocky Mountain this season, but the Vibes hold a 5-4 advantage in the second half.

Ogden next plays a three-game series at Northern Colorado (34-36) from Monday through Wednesday, the first time the two teams meet this season.

VIBES 7, RAPTORS 6

A night after the Vibes won 10-9 and Ogden finish the game with the potential tying run on first base, the home team did the same thing Saturday.

Dakota Conners singled in a run and put runners on first and second with two outs but Coleton Horner struck out to end the game.

Ogden got down 6-0 before Logan Williams hit a bases-loaded triple to begin the climb back.

Gerrit van Zijll took the loss, allowing six runs on 10 hits in three innings. Chase Stratton, Foster Pace and Jon Rice combined to throw four shutout relief innings and allow two hits.

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