Mumbai Directors at Sheffield Mountain Hares (20th - 22nd June, 2059)
Team Profile: Mumbai Directors
Banners: West & South Asia Divisional Champions (2050, 2051)
Playoff appearances: 5
Last season: 68-94 (16th)
This season: 37-32
Having made the playoffs in each of the first 5 years of the WBL, the Directors haven’t appeared since, though they’re having they’re on course for their best finish for numerous years as they sit in 5th place.
Game 1
SP: Alois Herzog
The Mumbai Directors defeated the Sheffield Mountain Hares, 3-2, in a tight 10 innings at Kingfisher Park. Mumbai pitcher Khachatur Pashazade had a standout performance. The Azeri power pitcher went 7 innings, giving up 6 hits and 2 runs. Tony Camarillo was the hero for the Directors, contributing a run-scoring sacrifice fly in the top of the tenth inning to put Mumbai up, 3-2. Both of Sheffield’s runs came from a towering Sergio Rutz home run in the 4th. Herzog gave up 2 runs in 5 innings in a solid start.
Player of the game: Khachatur Pashazade
Game 2
SP: Isaac Saville
Sheffield earn a hard-fought 4-3 win despite only getting 7 hits. Isaac Saville put in a solid start, giving up 3 runs in 6.1 innings, while Motoyanagi, Ochoa and Barrios shut the Directors out for the remainder of the game. Jesus Morales got a crucial home run in the 5th, but it was Schilchegger’s run scoring single in the tenth that won the Hares the game and got the home crowd dancing.
Player of the game: Isaac Saville
Game 3
SP: Giobbe Marinello
The Hares seem to be having a lot of extra-innings games this year, and unfortunately this one ended in a 6-3 loss, as the Directors racked up three runs in the 10th inning to take the series, all started by a Tim McCormick sacrifice fly which put them up 4-3. Morales hit his second and third home run is 2 games, going 3 for 3, while Rutz increased his season home-run tally to 17. Marinello was superb on the mound too, going 6.1 innings and giving up just 1 run - but it all wasn’t enough, as the Hares dropped to 44-28, remaining in 3rd in the Division.
Player of the game: Jesus Morales
