NALB 2018 World Championship Series - Game 6

K. Fields
2019-10-10T14:37:56-04:00
Baseball

The Knights returned to Brooklyn for game six of the World Championship Series. The pitching matchup was a rematch of game two, which the Knights won 10-3. Stade's Newton Kittler started against Brooklyn's Marcos Delgadillo. Kittler hoped to improve upon his previous performance where he was pulled in the second inning.

The Maples wasted no time getting down to business. Their first batter of the game, Ken MacEachern, started things off by hitting a home run. A pair of hits by Romeo Usquiano and Alberto Pescador tied the game 1-1 in the bottom of the first. Unfortunately, Pescador hurt his knee running out a double and had to leave the game. He was replaced in the lineup by Roberto Hernandez. The Knights had a big fourth inning thanks to a three run homer by Usquiano. Brooklyn added another run in the fifth with some aggressive baserunning by Roberto Hernandez. He raced home and touched the plate just ahead of a terrific throw from MacEachern in center field.

The rest of the way both teams threatened to score but failed to put up any runs. The Maples stranded eight men for the game and the Knights left eleven on base. Pitching prevailed as the Brooklyn Knights held on to defeat the Stade Maples for the 2018 NALB World Championship.

Despite a fine pitching performance by Marcos Delgadillo (6 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 5 K), Romeo Usquiano was the player of the game. He was on base five times (three for three hitting plus two walks) and had the biggest hit of the game with a three run homer.

Final score: Brooklyn 5, Stade 1

             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9   R  H  E
Stade        1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   1  9  2
Brooklyn     1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 X   5 11  2

W: M. Delgadillo
L: N. Kittler