Staff photo by Travis Rosenau New Ulm Legion Gold’s Logan Mielke, back-left, strolls home after Dirk Haynes, right, draws a bases-loaded walk during a legion baseball game against Waseca on Thursday at Mueller Park.

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NEW ULM — New Ulm Legion Gold used five walks and six hits in the fourth inning to score 10 runs and cruised to a 13-1 win over Waseca Thursday night in a legion baseball game at Mueller Park.

The game was stopped after 4 1/2 innings because of the 10-run lead rule.

Jake Finstad picked up the win for Gold. He scattered three hits and struck out three in three innings. The run he allowed was unearned. Caleb Forstner pitched two innings in relief, allowing three hits and one earned run.

Keaton Roeker took the loss for Waseca. He went three-plus innings and was charged with six walks.

New Ulm benefited from 12 walks in the game from Waseca pitching.

“Our guys were more patient looking for their pitch, so we got a few walks,” Gold head coach Curt Forbrook said. “But overall it was much better tonight.”

Zach Hubbard, Colin Anderson and Finstad each had two hits for New Ulm and each drove in two runs.

Gold, who hosts Hutchinson Monday at 7 p.m. at Johnson Park, took a 3-0 lead on Waseca in the first inning when Hubbard singled and Anderson drew the first of a dozen walks. A Finstad single plated Hubbard. Kyle Albrecht walked to load the bases before a walk to Ben Alfred and a wild pitch added two runs.

Waseca cut the lead to 3-1 in the top of the fourth on a single and ensuing outfield errror.

But Gold ended up sending 14 batters to the plate in the bottom of the inning.

Anderson, who collected both of his hits in that fourth inning, led off with a double. Finstad and Logan Mielke walked.

A wild pitch, a passed ball, an Ethan Thompson single and walks to Dirk Haynes and Caleb Forstner — the 12 of the game and fifth of the innning — made it a 7-1 game.

Hubbard’s two-run double upped the lead to 9-1.

Anderson’s two-run single made it 11-1. A Mielke single and a wild pitch added two more runs.

In addition to the patience at the plate, Forbrook was happy with the top of his order — Hubbard, Anderson and Finstad.

“Earlier in the season I juggled the lineup and was trying to find combinations that worked,” he said. “But I think that we have something figured out now and we will be better going down the stretch.”