With our season on the line for the second straight day we handed the ball to Francisco Rojas, who would hold the Tigers to 1 run on 3 hits over 7 innings, striking out 6 and walking 1. Rojas was brilliant today, and did everything he could to put us in position to win.
Our offense even woke up in the sixth inning with back to back singles by Antonio Garcia and Manuel Gallegos, and back to back RBI doubles by Jaimie Rivera and Gordon Stewart to give us a 2-1 lead because of a base running blunder by Gallegos that caused him to get thrown out at the plate.
A lead is a lead though, and Claudio Gonzales was the first pitcher out of the pen, getting the first out of the eighth, but only after walking a batter, who moved to second on the out. Josh Banks was in next in the game and struck out the first batter he faced, and allowed a game tieing single before getting out of the inning.
With the game tied at 2 our bullpen would do their job and keep us in the game until the thirteenth. Derin Terry and Tomas Rocha each pitching two scoreless innings.
The top of the thirteenth started with a strikeout, but David Noble singled on a long at-bat, and Jaime Rivera followed with a two run homer to put Mexico City up 4-2. It was looking like Mexico City would be heading home for Game 6.
A shaky bottom of the thirteenth had me on the edge of my seat with three walks, a wild pitch that scored a run, and put the tieing run 90 feet away. But Angelo Jimenez got out of the jam and the Conquistadors win the game 4-3 and live another day.
