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Mark Kingston rolled the dice and it backfired in the worst way possible. Going into the sixth inning, Garrett Gainey was on a roll. He made his way through five shutout frames but his pitch count was rising and Tennessee was soon to have the lineup come up for a third time. He gave up a one-out homer to Christian Moore to give Tennessee some life. The signs were there that the end was near. After getting the second out, Gainey proceeded to give up back-to-back singles. Sitting at 88 pitches, he had never gone this long before. But rather than pull him, Kingston left him in. And he paid the pr…