NALB - 2025 World Championship Series Game 5

K. Fields
2025-09-19T09:26:35-04:00
Baseball

The Stade Maples faced elimination down three games to one. Game five was a rematch of game one's starting pitchers with Brooklyn's Tony Tamayo vs. Stade's Yusuf O'Croly. That game was a 7-0 loss for the Maples but they hoped to change their fortune playing at home.

The starting pitchers were on their respective games and delivered a pitchers' duel into the middle innings. Tamayo pitched a four-hit shutout through 5.2 innings. Likewise, O'Croly took a shutout into the sixth inning. In the top of the sixth, the Knights scored a run thanks to a Dave Crayton double and a single by Clement Barrows. The Maples' bats finally came alive against the Knights' bullpen. In the bottom of the seventh, they delivered three hits and scored three runs. Stade's lead was short-lived, however, as the Knights scored two runs in the eighth off of a pinch hit double by Bruno Lavigne. The score was tied 3-3 in the bottom of the ninth when pinch hitter Min-zhong Xie delivered the knockout blow with a walkoff home run. Maples' magic struck again as it did in game three!

Final score: Stade 4, Brooklyn 3

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

W: B. Sarzoza
L: K. Hannah

Player of the game: Yusuf O'Croly