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Old 01-22-2021, 04:56 AM   #313
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MBL news: Oct. 12 -- NLCS Game 4 -- Twin Cities 6, St. Louis 5, 13 innings

Record: Twin Cities wins series 3-1.
Roc Riggio led off the bottom of the 13th inning with a single and later scored on a Mike Sartain sacrifice fly, as Twin Cities downed St. Louis 6-5 to claim the National League Championship Series with a Game 4 win at Metropolitan Stadium (1977).
With the River Walkers prressed to use Angel Tiburcio, their scheduled Game 5 starter in relief, Riggio connected for his fourth hit of the game to open the inning.
Ricky Cisneros then replaced the weary Tiburcio, only to be greeted by a single from Jim Peebles, which moved Riggio to third.
Sartain followed that by lifting the first pitch he saw into right field to score Riggio with the series-winning run.
The victory moves the Snow Cats into the Midwest Baseball League World Series for the first time. They will meet the Cleveland Juke Box Heroes who swept the Fort Wayne Mad Men to win the ALCS.
Both series were won by the team which did not have home-field advantage. The Cats will have home-field advantage in the best-of-seven World Series.
St. Louis jumped out to a 5-1 lead over 3.5 innings in Game 4.
The Walkers scored two runs apiece in the second and third innings.
Jose Segura hit a two-run homer off Twin Cities starter Keith Brennan in the third.
Rick Scott led off the fourth with another homer off Brennan, making it 5-1.
But the Cats clawed their way back, most of their work being done in the bottom of the fifth when they pieced together three runs on five hits.
Riggio had the big blow with an RBI triple off Walkers starter Zack Hunsicker, which scored Aaron Watson with the inning's first un.
Jim Peebes followed with a third straight hit, scoring Riggio.
Peebles later stole second and scored on a Drew Bowser single.
Twin Cities didn't tie it until the ninth against St. Louis closer Ernesto Barbosa, who blew just three saves in the regular season.
Barbosa retired the inning's first two hitters, but the next two -- Mike Sartain and Jeff Friedman -- both singled.
Drew Bowser then evened it with a double to score Sartain.
Beginning with Brennan, who allowed five runs on four hits over the first three innings, the Cats used nine pitchers, including Game 1 starter Keegan Jensen, who worked a scoreless final three to earn the win.
Jensen (1-1), who like Tiburcio was scheduled to start Game 5, allowed one hit while striking out two.
In between, it was Matt Joyce (1.1 IP), Nick Wilson (0.2), Brian Holllister (1.0), Eric Watkins (1.0), Jim Messina (1.0), Nicio Rodriguez (1.0) and Jesse Gathier (1.0), who combined to shut out St. Louis for seven innings.
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