NALB - 2025 World Championship Series Game 7

K. Fields
2025-09-21T08:16:16-04:00
Baseball

Game 7. Winner take all. After a hard fought series, the Maples and Knights squared off in Brooklyn for this decisive game. The starting pitchers were two of the very best. Stade's Renato Balcazar won 14 games in the regular season and led League 2 with an ERA of 2.08. Brooklyn's James McKinning was a 13 game winner who led League 1 with a 2.56 ERA.

The Maples were in hostile territory and faced a fired up Brooklyn crowd. They never looked rattled, however. Stade scored the game's first run in the second inning off of a Lorenzo Torres double. An RBI single by Ramiro Vázquez in the fourth inning put the Maples up 2-0. The Knights got on the board in the fourth with a solo home run by Dick Gosden. Both teams had some base runners down the stretch but neither team could deliver another run against such great pitching.

The Stade Maples held on to win and became back to back champions.

Final score: Stade 2, Brooklyn 1

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

W: R. Balcazar
L: J. McKinning
S: Y. O'Croly

Player of the game: Renato Balcazar