Brooklyn Knights Win the 2016 World Championship

K. Fields
2017-09-29T19:14:57-04:00
Baseball

Neither the Brooklyn Knights nor the Key West Corals won as many regular season games in 2016 as they had the year before. However, both teams made it to the NALB World Championship Series to play each other for the second straight year. With ten previous World Championships, this was familiar territory for the Knights. The Corals were on the verge of building their own dynasty. A victory in the 2016 WCS would give Key West three titles in four years.

This was a back and forth series with each team alternating wins over the first six games. For the fourth straight year, the World Championship was decided by a seventh game. Game 7 will certainly be remembered as one of the all-time great playoff games, a true classic. It was a marathon 17 inning contest that lasted 7 hours and 39 minutes. Thirteen pitchers were called upon. Alberto Pescador finally gave the Brooklyn Knights another title when he ended the game with a walk-off home run.

Game 1: Key West 7, Brooklyn 3
Game 2: Brooklyn 7, Key West 0
Game 3: Key West 2, Brooklyn 1
Game 4: Brooklyn 7, Key West 3
Game 5: Key West 8, Brooklyn 7
Game 6: Brooklyn 3, Key West 1
Game 7: Brooklyn 5, Key West 3

Series MVP: LF Ángel Santago (Brooklyn Knights)

Click the image for the NALB 2016 World Championship roster