NALB 2007 World Championship Series - Game 7

K. Fields
2008-11-16T19:14:54-05:00
Baseball

For the first time in North American League Baseball history, the World Championship was decided in a winner-take-all game 7. No team had won consecutive games in this series but the Maples tried to do just that. The pitching matchup was the same as game 3: Stade’s John Hamilton versus Brooklyn’s Fred Millard. It was a beautiful day for baseball with clear skies and a temperature of 61 degrees.

Ted Rambo scored the first run of the ball game when he hit a solo home run in his first at bat. The Maples 1-0 lead didn’t last very long. In the second inning, the Knights came alive with three straight doubles by Yale Burns, Kid Detherage, and Michael Duhon. They added singles by Ted Pollet, Dick Moran, Gary Mccreery, and Dan Kelley. It was a big inning and the Knights were up 5-1. The Brooklyn fans loved what they saw in the fourth inning as well. Ted Pollet, Jeff Castino, and Dick Moran each delivered hits. Mccreery smacked a line drive double and scored two runs. Burns and Duhon also scored that inning and it was a 9-2 ball game. The Knights extended their lead to 10-2 when Dan Kelley made it home on a ground out. Rip Sukeforth took the mound in the seventh and eighth innings and John Coleman pitched the ninth for the Knights. Millard, Sukeforth, and Coleman were magnificent down the stretch as they retired twelve batters in a row.

The Brooklyn Knights are World Champions once again by winning the series four games to three.

Final score: Brooklyn 10, Stade 2