Christian Hall made it count.

The power-hitting, late-season acquisition followed a Connor Bagnieski single with a home run to right-center field, lifting the Raptors to a 2-1 victory over the Ballers to force a Game 3 on Saturday.

In a pitchers’ duel even better than Thursday’s 4-2 decision, Oakland’s Luke Short seemed to have outlasted Ogden’s Cole Stasio.

Stasio left the game after five innings and with the Ballers leading 1-0. The end of the big right-hander’s shutout began with a two-out walk to Lou Helmig in the bottom of the fourth. Stasio put him in scoring position with a wild pitch and Daniel Harris IV delivered to score Helmig with an RBI single.

Stasio allowed the one run on three hits, striking out seven and walking two. He pitched around a Tremayne Cobb Jr. leadoff single and stolen third base to keep things scoreless after one inning.

Short had his shutout through six innings, allowing just two hits while striking out nine and walking two. But Oakland, the runaway champions of the PBL regular season, sent him out for the seventh inning. Bagnieski singled to right, Cole Jordan flew out to center, and Hall left the yard for what proved to be the game-winner.

Nico Saltaformaggio, Cameron Edmondson, Alain Lopez and Ryan Velazquez each took one inning of relief for Ogden, combining for a shutdown effort. The four pitchers allowed two hits, struck out four and walked one, and Oakland didn’t get a runner in scoring position after Ogden took the lead.

No player for either team had more than one hit; the Ballers outhit the Raptors 5-4.

In the other first-round series that was postponed Thursday by rain, Idaho Falls won Game 1 on Friday by a 6-4 decision at Missoula.