When Bristol Carter is on base, his goal is to get home by any means necessary. Standing 90 feet from home with a tie game in the bottom of the ninth against the Wareham Gatemen, the center fielder was ready to go at the first opportunity.

Carter’s window presented itself with Jake Koonin at the plate. The right fielder worked the count full when pitcher Gavin Black threw a wild pitch that rolled to the backstop. With a quick first step, the Auburn Tiger had plenty of time to stroll into home standing to give Harwich the 3-2 victory Sunday and end Wareham’s four-game win streak.

It was the first time Harwich came from behind to win and the team’s first walk-off.

“We battled throughout the game,” Carter said. “It’s great to get a win like this. The guys are getting after it and they are all pulling the same strings.”

With only four hits during the game, Harwich relied on the small ball to bring across the runs.

Before Koonin got up, Shintaro Inoue pinch-hit with runners at first and second and no outs. Calling it “the best in my life,” the second baseman laid down a slow roller up the third base line, moving both runners and almost beating the throw to first.

“Coming in pinch-hitting,” Carter said. “That’s a hard thing to do. He came in and did we needed him to do.”

Carter put on a masterclass on baserunning in the fifth. After reaching on a throwing error by third baseman Landon Stripling, Carter stood on first with Dee Kennedy at the plate.

On the first pitch, Carter broke for second and slid in easily.

Two pitches later, Carter, with an aggressive lead, stole third, barely beating the throw from Wareham catcher Adam Agresti.

“When I get on, my goal is to wreak havoc on the basepaths,” Carter said.

But the Auburn Tiger wasn’t done.

Dancing off third base, Carter caught the attention of Wareham pitcher Cooper Consiglio. Worried about the man on third, the lefty made an illegal motion and got called for a balk, allowing Carter to walk home.

“I wanted to get into the pitcher’s head,” he said.

And just like that, Harwich tied the game at two without the ball leaving the infield.

Carter finished the game with two hits, half of the Harwich total, and the two runs.

Evan Dempsey continued the string of great starts by Harwich pitching. After allowing four runs against Hyannis a week earlier, the two-way player wanted to redeem himself in his second start of the summer.

Outside of a home run that just stayed inside the left-field foul pole in the first, Dempsey shut down Wareham for five innings.

He allowed just three hits and struck out five.

Behind him, the trio of Matthew Heiberger, Christian Rodriguez, and Cooper Harrington tossed a combined four innings and allowed just one run and struck out four.

Things got interesting for Harrington in the ninth.

After striking out the first two batters of the inning, back-to-back Gatemen reached base.

Needing to lock in, Harrington got Agresti to line out to end Wareham’s threat.

“When he comes in, we know what we’re dealing with. We get an electric arm with a really good breaking ball. He’s going to compete his butt off.”

Harwich, now 5-3, has an off day Monday before heading to Chatham on Tuesday.