But their first-round playoff series came down to a winner-take-all Game 3 on Saturday night at Raimondi Park in Oakland, and the lone, deciding run came on an error during a double steal.

Oakland advanced to the league championship series and celebrated a 1-0 victory over Ogden to cap a low-scoring series befitting traditional postseason baseball — all of 10 runs were scored in the three games — but surprising in the Pioneer League.

The game’s only run came in the bottom of the seventh and spoiled Ogden starter Austyn Coleman’s efforts in keeping pace with Oakland starter Gabe Tanner.

Nick Leehey singled against Coleman to start the seventh and TJ McKenzie took over as a pinch runner. McKenzie stole second but Coleman got Davis Drewek and Tremayne Cobb Jr. to pop out in the infield.

That ended Coleman’s night, allowing zero earned runs on four hits, striking out seven and walking three in 6 2/3 innings.

Cameron Edmondson entered and walked Esai Santos. With Cam Bufford batting, the Ballers attempted a double steal; Raptors catcher Carmine Lane’s throw to second, trying to end the inning with Santos, sailed wide and McKenzie raced home for a 1-0 lead.

Edmondson then struck out Bufford to end the inning.

The Raptors’ best scoring chance came in the first inning. Outfielder Kenny Oyama singled with one out, stole second and took third on an errant throwdown to the bag. But Carmine Lane and Connor Bagnieski both flew out to leave Oyama 90 feet away.

In the third, Oyama and Damian Stone each hit two-out singles but Lane grounded out to shortstop to end the inning.

That would be the last time Ogden got a runner in scoring position.

Both team had five hits but the game played out in favor of Oakland’s pitching and defense. Tanner aced Ogden for eight innings, allowing five hits while striking out five and walking one. Closer Connor Sullivan brought it home in the top of the ninth, going 1-2-3 on a flyout-popout-groundout sequence to get the Ballers celebrating.

Tanner and Sullivan faced the minimum in seven innings Saturday. Four times were traditional 1-2-3 frames with no baserunners, while Tanner erased two hits and one walk with double-play grounders in the fifth, sixth and eighth innings.

Ogden went 52-43 in the regular season and advanced to the playoffs via a wild card berth as the No. 4 seed. No. 1 Oakland (73-23) awaits the winner of the Idaho Falls-Missoula series, which went to a Game 3 on Sunday after Missoula answered a Game 1 loss with a 16-9 win Saturday.