NALB 2015 World Championship Series - Game 3

K. Fields
2016-10-07T19:50:43-04:00
Baseball

After a travel day, the series moved to Key West for game three. Pitching for the Knights was Porfírio ‘Spooky’ Portio (16-2, 3.62 ERA). For the Corals, the starter was Mario Torralbo (11-6, 3.45 ERA).

Brooklyn’s third baseman, Alberto Pescador got the Knights on the scoreboard first with a two-run home run in the second inning. Portio was pitching a shutout when he left in the third inning with shoulder pain. Darius Luxton, the Knights number five starter in their rotation, came on in relief. Luxton got more help from his offense when Hsiao-lou Yeh hit a two-run homer in the fifth. The Knights scored again in the sixth inning off of an Ángel Santago double. Luxton pitched extremely well and left in the seventh inning with a 5-0 lead. Júlio Guillén relived Luxton and gave up the Corals one and only run, a Marvin Hearn RBI single. The Brooklyn Knights take a 2-1 series lead thanks to solid play from their hitters and pitchers.

Final score: Brooklyn 5, Key West 1

             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9   R  H  E
Brooklyn     0 2 0 0 2 1 0 0 0   5 12  0
Key West     0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0   1  8  0

W: D. Luxton
L: M. Torralbo