World Series Game 5

Ezekiel Duke led off the game with a homerun off DeMario.  Florida added another in the 4th as Howell singled, stole second, and scored on a Kawasaki single.  Doug Guzman was on his game, pitching a shutout into the 7th.  He got the first 2 outs, and Florida stood 7 outs away from a world championship.  Peter Rabbitt singled, and Oswipe Cabrera tied things up with a 2 run homer.

In the top of the 8th, Duke reached on a walk but was erased on a strikeout-throw out double play as Conn swung and missed.  After having some trouble throwing early in the series, Miami's Cal Mathis threw out Duke in the 5th and 8th, and Howell in the 6th.

In the bottom 8th, Miami put 2 on with one out.  David Tejada came in to strike out Arceneaux, and get Burton to ground to first.  Travis Howard, in his second inning of work, induced a double play ball from Kawasaki and escaped with no runs.  David Kison pitched the bottom of the 9th and Miami's bottom of the order went down 1-2-3.  Jong-Soo "General" Tso came out for the top of the 10th and got Florida on two grounders and a pop up.

Kison came out for the bottom of the 10th and retired Mathis.  Florida then went to the lefty Nelson to face Brian Kaat.  Nelson knew he needed to get one over to keep the speedy cat off the bases.  Brian jumped on the first pitch and sent it flying towards the right field corner.  Conn Barbarian gave chase, leaped, and crashed into the wall (leaving a Barbarian sized hole that will have to be repaired before next season), but the ball was just out of his reach and into the seats.

Brian Kaat had the game winning hit two days in a row.  For what is probably the first time ever in a world series game, one leadoff hitter homered in the first at bat, and the other leadoff hitter homered to end the game.  At 3-2, we now have a series as the teams move back north to Jacksonville.