There has been the occasional lopsided result in club softball this summer, but the weekend featured three games decided by just one or two runs.
The feature clash was locked at 2-2 through seven innings, with the pitching battle a classic match-up between the veteran (Ellis Park's Pete Mathieson) and the rising star (Dodgers' Ben Watts).
Mathieson had seven strike-outs in the first six innings, while Watts flamed eight through seven innings.
That set the scene for an explosion of offence in the eighth inning.
At the top of the card, Ricky Boebel batted in Jeremy Rei, and Cameron Watts singled to bring Boebel home.
Robinson, with both Watts boys on the bags, cleared the fence to give Dodgers a commanding 7-2 lead.
Ellis Park pinched four runs back in the bottom of the eighth but could not quite find someone to match Robinson's heroics, and the game ended with an out at home plate.
Ellis Park also came up just short in the day's closest game when it was pipped 6-5 by Cardinals.
Cardinals jumped to a 3-0 lead at the bottom of the first inning when Doug Hill and Glenn Forrester both doubled and then were brought home by Simon Maole's home run.
Ellis Park scored twice in the third, then another Forrester double scored two runs for Cardinals in the fourth.
Ellis Park capitalised on an error to score three runs at the top of the fifth inning, making it 5-5, but Cardinals took the lead back straight away when Richard Hunt singled to bring in Maole.
Protecting the one-run lead in the final inning, young Cardinals pitcher Joshua Ludlow forced three ground-outs to seal the win.
A five-run sixth inning highlighted Cardinals' 8-6 win over Saints, a game which featured home runs to Forrester and Saints batters Tim Howard and Ben Foster.
There was a sniff of an upset in the final game, with Waverley jumping to a 5-1 lead over Saints at the turn of the second inning.
Waverley batters got hold of Saints pitcher Mark Ahlfeld, getting four hits and also forcing an error to get the scoreboard ticking over.
But Saints' reply was brutal: 12 runs in just three innings, with Lachie Brenssell whacking a two-run homer in the second and Travis McIntosh hitting a three-run homer in the fourth.
