Milan Tailors at Sheffield Mountain Hares - Series Recap
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Game 1
Friday, July 23rd, 2060 – Sheffield win 2–0 (47–50)
Eskinder Ali turned Kingfisher Park into his personal zen garden, calmly trimming down the Tailors in a 2–0 opener. Ali worked 6.2 scoreless frames, allowing just two hits, no walks and fanning six before handing things to U. Bercovici and N. Barrios, who brushed off the 8th and 9th like crumbs off a jersey.
The Hares scratched out single runs in the 4th and 8th, stitched together from timely knocks by R. Graham and E. Ali plus a well-placed sac fly from N. Ngunda. It wasn’t glamorous, but it was the baseball equivalent of finding a tenner in an old coat pocket. Milan’s offense, meanwhile, managed five total bases and not a single jog around the diamond.
Player of the Game:
Eskinder Ali (6.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 6 K).
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Game 2
Saturday, July 24th, 2060 – Sheffield win 8–0 (48–50)
Game 2 was a full-on stampede. Y. bin Saqr and T. Allen combined on a three-hit shutout as Sheffield thumped Milan 8–0. Bin Saqr went 5.2 scoreless with five strikeouts; Allen finished the last 3.1 with five more Ks, like a tag-team of polite but ruthless librarians shushing every Tailor at the plate.
On offense, the Hares blew the doors off. K. Saetgaliev opened with a solo shot off J. Ferris, then Ali went supernova: two homers, including a grand slam in the 3rd and another blast in the 7th. He finished with 5 RBI.
Player of the Game:
Eskinder Ali (2 HR, 5 RBI).
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Game 3
Sunday, July 25th, 2060 – Sheffield win 10–5 (49–50)
The finale was less “pitcher’s duel” and more “fireworks display with occasional fielding.” Sheffield launched five homers and won 10–5, completing the sweep and dragging their season record to a much more respectable 49–50.
R. Ochoa (5.2 IP, 4 R) bent but didn’t quite break, with I. Paez and Sarsour Burhan (save no. 3) taping up the last few innings. At the plate, it was cartoon stuff: Ali whacked two more homers and drove in four, while J. Morales matched him with two bombs and five RBI, including a three-run rocket off F. Mijma in the 5th that flipped a 3–2 deficit into a 5–3 lead. N. Ngunda chipped in a solo shot just because everyone else was doing it.
Player of the Game:
Jesus Morales (2 HR, 5 RBI).
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Series Summary
Sheffield starts the set at
46–50 and walks away at
49–50, thanks to a 3–0 sweep in which they outscore Milan 20–5 and basically turn the Tailors’ pitching staff into a piñata.
Eskinder Ali owned the weekend: 6.2 scoreless innings in Game 1 plus four home runs and 9 RBI across Games 2 and 3. The staff allowed just five runs all series, while the offense clobbered eight homers (Ali 4, Morales 2, Saetgaliev 1, Ngunda 1).
In short: Milan arrived with a pencil; Sheffield answered with a wrecking ball – and now the Hares are one good series away from hopping back to .500 for real.