Don't call it a comeback. Call it two.
 
The Chico State baseball team provided a punch of excitement on the penultimate day of the 2015 season Saturday, coming from five runs behind to beat Cal State East Bay in the first of two at Nettleton Stadium. Alex Michaels lined a walk off single to right field to win it 7-6.
 
The Wildcats almost did it again in the nightcap, tying the game on Connor Huesers' RBI-single in the sixth and then watching potential game-winning homers by Dylan Garcia and Danny Miller die on the warning track in the extra innings of an eventual 2-1 loss.
 

But the biggest comeback story Saturday was the completion of Ryan O'Shea's.
 
The fifth-year senior sustained an arm injury that cost him what was to be his senior season in 2014. He battled back to become one of the top relief pitchers in the nation this year, recording six saves without allowing a run in his first eight appearances, spanning nine innings. He started for the second straight weekend in Saturday's nightcap and put an exclamation point on an inspiring final season.
 
O'Shea allowed just one run in eight frames. He struck out seven in the process to move into eighth in Chico State history with 141 in his career.
 
O'Shea simply shoved this season, finishing with a 0.78 ERA. In 23 innings of work, O'Shea struck out 26 while allowing just 12 hits and three walks.
 
In the first game, the Wildcats scored twice in the seventh, three times in the eighth to tie it, and then plated the winning run in the ninth. Michaels was in the middle of all three rallies, scoring in the seventh and driving in runs in the eighth and ninth.
 
Peter Lecce got the momentum going with a pinch two-run double with the bases juiced in the seventh. Clayton Gelfand (2-for-4 in the game) and Michaels (3-for-5) scored on the shot to right-center.
 
Trailing 6-3, the Wildcats loaded the bases with no one out in the eighth. Garcia walked and Huesers and Gelfand got back-to-back hits. Michaels then muscled an opposite-field RBI-single before Cameron Santos coaxed a bases-loaded walk to make it 6-5.
 
With one down, James Hatano laid down a squeeze bunt to tie the game heading into the ninth, where another bunt set up the winning run.
 
Gordon Deacon delivered that bunt single and moved to second on Garcia's sacrifice bunt. After he advanced to third on a wild pitch, Deacon scored easily on Michaels' line shot to right.
 
The senior scampered home, turned toward first, and ran down Michaels between first and second to join the joyous celebration.
 
That made a winner out of Wildcats reliever Hunter Haworth, who provided three shutout innings.
 
Chico State's 15 seniors will be honored prior to Sunday's season finale in a "Senior Day" celebration set to kick off at approximately 10:30. First pitch is scheduled for 11.