NALB 2018 World Championship Series - Game 5

For the final series game in Stade, game five featured a rematch of pitching aces from game one. Stivers greatly outpitched Tamayo in the opening game and Maples' fans hoped to see a repeat of that decisive win.

Unlike game one, Tony Tamayo looked like himself on the mound. He was throwing heat and limiting Maples' baserunners. Stivers matched his performance, however, and the game was still scoreless going into the seventh inning. Hipolito Nuñez drew a walk to start the bottom of the seventh. Kensaku Shimada followed by blasting a Tamayo fastball over the left field wall. Down 2-0, the Knights tried to come back against Maples' closer Dong-u Sop in the final two innings. With a man on in the ninth, Flavio Marquez hit a deep fly ball to right field. It didn't carry far enough, however, and and Terry Bannatyne caught it for the final out of the game.

The Knights had trouble solving Stivers, who surrendered no earned runs on 4 hits over 7.1 innings. He was the easy choice for player of the game.

Final score: Stade 2, Brooklyn 0

             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9   R  H  E
Brooklyn     0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   0  5  1
Stade        0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 X   2  5  0

W: T. Stivers
L: T. Tamayo
S: D. Sop