SLCS Game 6

New York sends Elladan Corinvar to the mound, Miami goes with Tim Sullivan. Stars catcher Bud McNamara is worn down and unable to play this one. The 38 year old catcher had caught every one of Miami's playoff games to date, and hit .375/.490/.600.

Dirk Lindros puts New York up 1-0 with a solo homer in the 2nd. In the bottom of the 2nd, Andy Moore walks, followed by a Bob Abuee double. One out later, backup catcher Dan Jernigan gets a huge 2 RBI single in his first at bat of the postseason (he had caught an inning on defense earlier).

After adding a run in the 3rd, Miami came up with 4 in the 4th. With 2 out and bases loaded, Richie Almanzar singles in two. Joe Young hits one back to the pitcher, and reliever Jay Dessau makes a throwing error to allow another run to score. Finally, a wild pitch brings in a run to give Miami a 7-1 lead.

Tim Sullivan runs into some trouble in the 6th, allowing 3 runs. Jim Gwosdz doubles in one, Almanzar makes an error to allow a second, and a sac fly brings in the third. Dirk Lindros homers in the 7th to make it a 7-5 game. Gwosdz homers off reliever James Rhodes in the 8th, and we've got a 1 run game.

Miami adds 2 insurance runs in the bottom 8th as Brian Kaat scores on a wild pitch and Almanzar score on a sac fly. Bob Belardi comes out to pitch the 9th, protecting a 3 run lead.

Mike Perry flies out to center. Vernon Coles doubles. Lindros singles, and the tying run comes to the plate. With Stuart Johnson batting, Belardi bounces a slider that gets away from Jernigan. Coles scores, but Lindros makes a spectacular baserunning blunder, trying for 3rd base despite the fact that his teams was still down two. Jernigan recovers, and throws Lindros out at 3rd. Johnson then flies to Brian Kaat, and Miami is going to the World Series.

Joe Young had 5 homers in the playoffs, but none in the final 4 games, where he went 3 for 18. The Superior League Playoff MVP goes to Richie Almanzar, who hit .440 (22 for 50) in the 12 games. He also had 7 doubles, 13 runs, and 12 RBI. With him and Brian Kaat (21-54, .389), the Stars constantly had people on base at the top of the order.