Game Date: Sep 24, 2025
The Philadelphia Crushers took the first game of their playoff series against the Shackamaxon Lenape today with a 3-2 victory.
Both teams traded a run in the third when Lenape RF Jose Molina sent a Luis Salazer pitch over the right-center field wall. The Crushers responded in the bottom of the inning on an RBI single by Larry McCormick. Philadelphia pushed another run across the plate in the fifth when McCormick brought Clarence Spearman home with a double. Shackamaxon tied the game on a single by Molina.
The game remained tied until the bottom of the ninth when pinch hitter Francisco Gonzalez walloped a Will Stout pitch over the wall to give Philadelphia a victory in game one.
In the nightcap, Brooklyn jumped out to a quick two run lead in the top of the first on a two run blast by Katsuhiko Jouda. Seattle clawed a run back in the second on an RBI single by Bas Bijkerk and another in the fourth on a home run by Jonathan Anderson. Seattle took the lead in the eighth when Terry Hubbard lofted a sac fly to center, bringing home Masahide Ueda. Brooklyn tied the game again in the top of the ninth when, with second and third occupied, reliever Carlo Humphry uncorked a wild pitch, allowing speedy pinch runner Ben Beard to scamper home with the tying run.
From there, the game went into extra innings. Brooklyn took the lead in the top of the tenth when Luis Figueroa lined a double to left, bringing home Esteban Sepulveda.
Brooklyn closer, Pino Pontoni, started his second inning of relief by giving up a single to Lucio Muniz. Javier Chalen, pinch hitting for the pitcher, doubled, sending Muniz to third. Ueda then singled, bringing home Muniz. That then brought up Norman Kuhn, who singled to center, bringing home Chalen with the winning run.
Figures. I change my closer to Arias for the postseason and he gives up a walk-off home run to the first batter he faces.
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