Another painful loss for Cards at Colville

To some, baseball is the furthest thing from being a game of inches.

There’s 90-feet between bases, it’s 60 feet, 6 inches from the pitcher’s mound to home plate and it generally takes a minimum of a 300-foot-plus shot to hit a home run.

But for Medical Lake last week in a crucial Northeast A League game at Colville, the difference between a Cardinal victory and the eventual 6-5 walk-off win by the Crimson Hawks April 29 was mere inches.

Earlier in the season Medical Lake fell to Colville at home, leaving the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh.

Multiple times Medical Lake was painfully...