The NBL and the NBA are being pushed to the brink...
And their opponents are quite happy to go into tonight with the chance to push them over and knock them out of the World Cup.
P.J. Bevis (0-0 7.72ERA) started for the first time in these playoffs. Greg Rymon (0-0 4.50ERA) makes his second start.
The pitchers were doing their job through 5 innings with just the one XBL run thanks to an Albert Pujols homerun (1). The bats then tried to take advantage of a little pitcher fatigue in the 6th with XBL increasing their lead with 3B Pujols bringing another 2 runs home to take his postseason tally to 5 RBIs. A Wendell Aldwin RBI single (6) makes the score 3-1.
After a pitching change from the XBL to replace Bevis with Jesse Crain who only gave up the one hit in 1.2 innings of work to shut down the NBL and condemn them to a loss. The final score was 5-1.
Many had predicted a 2-0 series lead at this point, although not many would have said it would be the XBL who would now be one game away from the World Cup Finals.
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NBA v MaxLB - Game 2. The MaxLB just had too many good things happening for the NBA to win. The teams were tied in the middle of the 8th when MaxLB scored two huge runs with Demaio and Giglio being the RBIs of Giglio (4) and Spartaro (1) respectivly. So now going into the 9th MaxLB's closer Mctaggart came in to close. Things proved shaky when leadoff hitter Gilliam hit his 1st homer of the playoffs to take his side to just one run behind. But a quick 1-2-3 soon put an end to a comeback and the NBA go 2-0 in the series.
(Sorry for such a short review guys, I'm not up to much today but hopefully with a days rest I'll be able to do more tomorrow
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