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MBL news: World Series Game 1 -- Cincinnati 10, Des Moines 0
Travis Swaggerty homered twice and drove in five runs as the Cincinnati Skyline pounded the Des Moines Harvesters 10-0 in Game 1 of the Midwest Baseball League World Series at Riverfront Stadium (1970).
The Skyline already led 2-0 by the time Swaggerty went deep for the first time, a two-run shot off Harvesters starting pitcher Sixto Sanchez in the fifth inning to make it 4-0.
His second bomb came in the eighth, this one off Rory Stevens, it drove in three and made it 10-0.
Micah Reed took a shutout into the eighth inning, when he retired with one out, as allowed just six hits in his 8.1 innings. He struck out seven and walked one.
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