NALB - 2023 World Championship Series Game 2

K. Fields
2023-09-18T14:01:50-04:00
Baseball

The Brooklyn Knights were feeling a bit of pressure after losing the home opener of the World Championship Series. The last thing they wanted was to travel to Vancouver down two games.

The Wild's game two starter was Rudolph Carpoza (14-9, 3.71 ERA), an excellent young Mexican power pitcher. Aaron Patterson (9-8, 3.16 ERA) started for the Knights. Patterson pitched pretty well throughout the season but got very little run support.

The game was scoreless for three innings as both starters looked in command. In the fourth, the Wild scored the first run of the game thanks to doubles by Rubén Viladina and Morris Brown. The Knights countered in the bottom half of the inning. Blas Ramos walked and scored on a sacrifice fly by Ramone Alconer. With the game tied 1-1 in the bottom of the eighth, Maurílio Godim was called on to leadoff as a pinch hitter. He singled and advanced to second base on a sacrifice bunt by Estevan Portillo. Namboka Shimohira followed with a single, advancing Godim to third base. Blas Ramos came through with a clutch sac fly to left field. Knights' closer Ken Hannah retired three batters in the ninth for the save.

Final score: Brooklyn 2, Vancouver 1

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

W: H. Wonnacott
L: J. Farrell
S: K. Hannah

Player of the game: Aaron Patterson