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| Tom Glavine got the series- clinching win as Goldendale beat Moses Lake 3-1 to advance to the championship series. |
Each team broke through in the fourth. Josh Gibson clubbed a two-out homer deep down the left field line against Pedro to make it 1-0 Goldendale. Willie Mays answered with a leadoff bomb to left against Glavine to tie it at 1-all.
It stayed that way for a while. Goldendale got just one hit and a walk against Martinez in the next three innings. Moses Lake got something going in the sixth when Paul Molitor and Mays opened the inning with back-to-back singles. Stan Musial hit a slow roller toward short that Nomar Garciaparra had to charge. His only play was at first, and the runners moved to second and third with one out. Mantle came to the plate and, with the Goldendale infield playing in, hit a grounder toward second. Molitor took off for the plate for a shot at the lead, Gehringer snagged the ball and fired home in time for the out. Edgar Martinez hit a comebacker to the mound and Glavine threw him out at first to end the threat.
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| Charlie Gehringer made a key defensive play and got the tiebreaking hit in Goldendale's series-clinching win. |
Tom Gordon came on to pitch for Goldendale in the eighth, and Joe Morgan, batting for Pedro, led off with a walk on a 3-1 pitch. Moses Lake manager Connie Mack then called on Eddie Mathews to pinch hit for Molitor, who was 2-for-3 in the game. Goldendale skipper Clark Griffith countered with Everyday Eddie Guardado, who got Mathews to hit a routine fly ball to right. Mays then grounded into a 4-6-3 double play to end the inning. Mays hit into two twin-killings in the contest.
The G's got an insurance run in the top of the ninth. Lou Gehrig led off with a single, moved to third on a couple of groundouts, and scored on a base hit by Troy Glaus to make it 3-1.
It was a run they didn't need. Goldendale closer Goose Gossage came in and made quick work of the M's, striking out Musial and Mantle, and getting pinch hitter Eddie Murray on a routine fly to right to seal the victory and the series, four games to two. Goldendale advances to play Bainbridge Island in the A to Z League championship series. Griffith has penciled in Bob Gibson as his starter for the series opener, which will be played at Bainbridge Island.
Game six box score, October 19
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP
Goldendale 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 3 8 0 6 3
Moses Lake 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 4 0
G's AB R H BI AVG M's AB R H BI AVG
Gehringer 2b 4 0 1 1 .182 Molitor 2b 3 0 2 0 .571
GwynnSr,T rf 3 0 1 0 .130 Mathews,E ph 1 0 0 0 .154
GriffeyJr cf 4 0 0 0 .182 Mays,W cf 4 1 2 1 .296
Gibson,J c 4 1 1 1 .273 Musial 1b 4 0 1 0 .261
Gordon,T p 0 0 0 0 .000 Mantle rf 4 0 1 0 .292
Guardado p 0 0 0 0 .000 Martinez,E 3b 2 0 0 0 .500
Gossage p 0 0 0 0 .000 Myers,R p 0 0 0 0 .000
Gehrig 1b 3 1 1 0 .429 Marshall,MG p 0 0 0 0 .000
Garciaparra ss 4 0 0 0 .167 Murray,E ph 1 0 0 0 .333
Goslin lf 4 0 0 0 .200 Medwick lf 3 0 0 0 .273
Gaetti 3b 2 0 1 0 .222 Munson,T c 3 0 0 0 .000
Granderson ph 1 0 0 0 .000 Marion ss 3 0 0 0 .143
Glaus 3b 1 0 1 1 .500 Martinez,P p 2 0 0 0 .167
Glavine p 2 0 0 0 .000 Morgan,J ph 0 0 0 0 .231
Greenberg ph 1 1 1 0 .125 30 1 6 1
Gowdy c 1 0 1 0 .500
34 3 8 3
G's INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Glavine W 1-1 7.0 6 1 1 1 1 92 57 5.79
Gordon,T 0.0 0 0 0 1 0 5 1 0.00
Guardado H 1 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 2.25
Gossage S 3 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 12 9 0.00
9.0 6 1 1 2 3 115 70
M's INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA
Martinez,P L 1-1 8.0 5 2 2 2 9 127 74 1.06
Myers,R 0.2 1 1 1 0 0 11 6 5.40
Marshall,MG 0.1 2 0 0 0 0 4 3 5.40
9.0 8 3 3 2 9 142 83
GOL: Granderson batted for Gaetti in the 8th
Greenberg batted for Glavine in the 8th
Glaus inserted at 3b in the 8th
Gowdy inserted at c in the 8th
ML : Morgan,J batted for Martinez,P in the 8th
Mathews,E batted for Molitor in the 8th
Mathews,E moved to 3b in the 9th
Morgan,J moved to 2b in the 9th
Murray,E batted for Marshall,MG in the 9th
2B-Gehringer(1), Gaetti(2), Greenberg(1), Gowdy(1), Mantle(1).
HR-Gibson,J(3), Mays,W(2). RBI-Gehringer(1), Gibson,J(3), Glaus(1),
Mays,W(7). K-Gehringer, GriffeyJr 4, Gibson,J, Garciaparra, Goslin,
Granderson, Musial, Mantle, Munson,T. BB-GwynnSr,T, Gehrig, Martinez,E,
Morgan,J. PB-Munson,T.
GWRBI: Gehringer