NALB 2011 World Championship Series - Game 6

K. Fields
2012-11-04T17:20:53-05:00
Baseball

The World Championship Series shifted back to Brooklyn for game six. The Maples had an opportunity to win the title with a victory. Standing in their way was Ronaldo “Groove Thing” Mijangos (20-3, 2.20 ERA), ace of the Knights pitching staff. The Maples opted to start Earle Seeman (11-10, 3.28 ERA) on only four days rest.

Mijangos was pitching on an extra day of rest and he looked sharp. Regardless, Travis Araoz took advantage of one bad pitch by Mijangos and promptly smashed it over the wall in the first inning. Brooklyn’s leadoff hitter, Kid Detherage, hit a home run of his own to tie the game at one run apiece. In the third inning, the Knights pulled ahead by a run when Detherage scored on a sacrifice fly by Alexis Schmidt. In the bottom of the fifth, Schmidt was at it again. The NALB’s RBI leader tallied three more when he hit a 400 foot bomb with two men on base. In the sixth inning, Detherage scored again. The real damage was done by Hsiao-lou Yeh, however, with his three-run homer to right field. The Knights had a comfortable 9-1 lead. Yeh came through again in the eighth. He hit an RBI triple and then scored on a sac fly from Flavio Marquez. After Mijangos pitches a solid seven innings, Francisco Jimenez came on in relief. He pitched a scoreless eighth inning and then surrendered one run in the ninth.

The Brooklyn Knights won easily and forced a deciding game seven. One item of note was that superstar Hooks Goetz finally ended his World Championship hitless slump. After going 0 for 21 in the previous five games, the Knights’ third baseman had two hits and three walks.

Final score: Brooklyn 11, Stade 2

             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9   R  H  E
Stade        1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1   2  5  0
Brooklyn     1 0 1 0 3 4 0 2 X  11 15  0

W: R. Mijangos
L: E. Seeman