Division Series games 10-4-18

Utah 2 Boston 1

Paul Norris homered and Erick Reinfelder walked, stole second, and scored on a Jorge Guevara double off C.C. Salbacca.  That was all Utah would get  off the wookiee, who allowed only 2 hits and struck out 10 through 7 innings, and it was all they would need.  Clint Meyers allowed 4 hits and 1 run for 7 innings, Harry Archer pitched the 8th, and Marcelino Lopez got the last 2 outs for the save.  Utah is now one game away from the Superior League Championship series.

Miami 6 Cleveland 5

Carlos Padron allowed one run through 5, turning over a 4 run lead to the bullpen while throwing 104 pitches.  In the 6th, Malcolm Thomas tied the game with a 3 run homer off Tom Knight.

Cleveland took the lead when Troy Wyckoff led off the 7th with a homer off Stan Justice.  In the bottom half of the inning, Cal Mathis led off with a single and Miami went to the bench for Roberto Gonzalez, who stole 2 bases.  One out later, Ricky Buckley brought him home with a sac fly.

Miami barely escaped the 9th as they used 3 relievers to keep Cleveland off the board, with Dwight Schrute striking out pinch hitter Alex Maldonado with the bases loaded to end it.  Miami could have been in big trouble if the game went deep into extra innings as Schrute was their last available reliever.  The only other available pitchers were Brad Moulds and Nick Lawson, the expected starters for games 3 and 4.

Miami failed to score in the 9th, sending the game into extras.  Schrute pitched a 1-2-3 top of the 10th.

In the bottom of the 10th, Billy Bass led off with a walk off closer Kevin Stanfield.  He tried to steal second but was thrown out, Miami's first time caught stealing after 6 successful attempts.  It did not matter as the next batter was Devan Arceneaux, who crushed the next pitch 452 feet to dead center for a game ending homerun.

Miami can advance to the SLCS with one more win.