GLBL Playoffs 1954 - USA Division Best of 7 Game Series
USA Game 1: Chicago @ Toledo
Dan Floyd (14-10) vs. Dwayne Miller (10-5)
Top 1. We have our first run of the playoffs. Reagan Osborn singles, António Méndez walks, and Thomas Arnaud singles in Osborne. Chicago 1, Toledo 0.
Bot 3. Casey Cowley singles. José Gómez triples him in! Gray Dijkstra singles in Gómez. Luis González singles. Carlos Figueroa doubles in Adams and González. The Neptunes score four. Toledo 4, Chicago 1.
Bot 4. Casey Cowley singles, steals second, and scores on a Ken Armour single. Toledo 5, Chicago 1.
Top 6. Walker Dunse walks, and Reagan Osborne hits a two-run home run! Toledo 5, Chicago 3.
I forget sometimes that Reagan Osborn is only 24. This is his first career playoff game.
Bot 7. Dijkstra singles. With two outs, Luis González and Carlos Figueroa walk. Dusty Murphy singles in Dijkstra and L-Gon. Toledo 7, Chicago 5.
Top 8. Walker Dunse and Reagan Osborn walk. António Méndez doubles them both in! Toledo 7, Chicago 5.
Top 9. The Architects need two to tie.
Juan Durán is first up.
He grounds out.
Cris Luna walks.
Jim Ashley doubles!
Tying run on second, one out!
Walker Dunse strikes out.
Regan Osborn…
…strikes out!
TOLEDO WINS, 7-5.
Toledo leds 1-0 in the best of 7 series.
USA Game 2: Chicago @ Toledo
Yale Hulbert (12-9) vs. Nick Keddy (16-5)
Top 1. Reagan Osborn singles, and Jim Ashley doubles him in. Chicago 1, Toledo 0.
Top 2. Samuel Amsden and Cris Luna double. Chicago 2, Toledo 0.
Bot 4. The Neptunes get their first hit of the game: Luis González singles. Dusty Murphy strikes out but reaches first on a passed ball. Toshikuni Ogawa grounds out to end the threat.
Top 5. Matt Graves homers! Reagan Osborn homers! Jim Ashley homers! Holy cow! Chicago 5, Toledo 0.
Nick Keddy gets pulled after that third home run. Not a great start from the Triple Crown winner.
Bot 7. Dusty Murphy homers! The Neptunes are on the board. Chicago 5, Toledo 1.
Top 9. With two outs, Walker Dunse reaches base on an error. Reagan Osborn is intentionally walked. Jim Ashley homers! Chicago 8, Toledo 1.
Thomas Arnaud doubles. Kent Noseworthy walks. Chi-Yong Lee gets hit by a pitch. Samuel Amsden walks. Arnaud scores. Cris Luna strikes out. Chicago 9, Toledo 1.
Bot 9 - Neptunes go quietly to end the game.
CHICAGO WINS, 9-1!
Toledo loses a game for the first time in two weeks.
Series is tied, 1-1.
The Series now shifts to Chicago for games 3, 4 and 5
USA Game 3: Toledo @ Chicago
Christopher Bouchard (10-8) vs. José Cedeño (12-12)
Bot 1. Matt Graves singles, steals second, moves to third on a ground out, and scores on a Reagan Osborn sac fly. Chicago 1, Toledo 0.
Top 2. Dusty Murphy homers! Tie game, 1-1.
Bot 2. Thomas Arnaud homers! Chicago 2, Toledo 1.
Bot 2 continued. Chi-Yong Lee doubles, and Samuel Amsden singles him in. Chicago 3, Toledo 1.
Top 3. José Gómez gets hit by a pitch. Gray Dijkstra doubles. Dwayne Adams hits a sac fly, scoring Gómez. Chicago 3, Toledo 2.
Bot 4. Thomas Arnaud singles. Chi-Yong Lee doubles him in. Samuel Amsden homers! Chicago 6, Toledo 2.
Top 5. José Gómez doubles and moves to third on a sac fly. Dwayne Adams singles him in. Chicago 6, Toledo 3.
Top 6. Carlos Figueroa doubles and moves to third on a ground out. Casey Cowley doubles him in. Ken Armour singles in Cowley. José Gómez doubles in Cowley! Tie game, 6-6.
This is easily the most exciting game of the playoffs so far!
Top 7. Dwayne Adams singles, moves to second on a wild pitch, and scores on a Dusty Murphy double. Toledo takes their first lead of the game. Toledo 7, Chicago 6.
Bot 9. Chicago needs one to tie, two to win. Luke Mews comes in to pitch for Toledo.
Walker Dunse flies out.
Reagan Osborn grounds out.
Jim Ashley……grounds out.
TOLEDO WINS, 7-6!
Toledo takes a 2-1 series led in the best of 7
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This was a very disappointing game and one you do not want to lose to the hottest team in baseball. We would have to win 3 out of the last 4 to have a chance. Momentum was definitely on the side of Toledo.
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USA Game 4: Toledo @ Chicago
Carlos Pérez (11-7) vs. Joe Johnson (15-5)
Top 1. Gray Dijkstra singles on the second pitch of the game. Dwayne Adams singles on pitch three. Dijkstra takes third. Throw is tor third. Safe. Adams moves to second on the throw. (You know, my favorite OOTP bit of nonsense.) Luis González doubles them both in. Toledo 2, Chicago 0.
Bot 1. Reagan Osborn homers! Toledo 2, Chicago 1.
With two outs and nobody out, António Méndez and Thomas Arnaud single. Kent Noseworthy walks. Doug Deschamps singles in Méndez. Juan Durán doubles down the first base line. All three runners score! Chicago 5, Toledo 2.
Top 4. Dusty Murphy walks. Toshikuni Ogawa and Casey Cowley single. Cowley’s single scores Murphy Chicago 5, Toledo 3.
Bot 5. Reagan Osborn triples, and Doug Deschamps singles him in. Chicago 6, Toledo 3.
So far this postseason, Reagan Osborn is 6-for-14 with three home runs, a triple, three walks, eight runs scored, and five RBIs.
Top 7. Gray Dijkstra homers! Chicago 6, Toledo 4.
Top 8. Dusty Murphy walks, and Toshikuni Ogawa triples! Chicago 6, Toledo 5.
Top 9. Toledo needs one run to tie. Pat Wright in to close things out for Chicago.
Ken Armour strikes out.
José Gómez lines out.
Gray Dijkstra, who homered in his last at-bat…
flies out.
CHICAGO WINS, 6-5!
The series is tied, 2-2.
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That was a must win for the Architect's. If we had fallen like that for the 2nd straight game, my money would have been on Toledo to close us out in game 5. At least now we knew we'd be going back to Toledo for at least game 6.
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USA Game 5: Toledo @ Chicago
Warren Townsend vs. Dan Floyd
Looks like Toledo is going with something that you rarely see in the playoffs: a five-man rotation.
09/21/2054 SP Dan Floyd was injured while pitching (Toledo @ Chicago)
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No......not what we needed!
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Floyd has”dead arm” and will be out for one week.
Bill Lutz is a pretty good emergency starter, if you ask me.
Top 3. José Gómez homers! Toledo 1, Chicago 0.
Bot 4. Walker Dunse and Jim Ashley double. Tie game, 1-1.
The Tects bullpen has stepped up. Problem is that Warren Townsend is dealing.
To the ninth inning! Still tied, 1-1.
Bot 9. Townsend gets pulled. Luke Mews retires the side on four pitches.
Extra innings!
Chicago has to be glad that tomorrow is an off-day. Their pen is going to need the rest.
Final line on Townsend: 8 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 3 K. It’s his fifth straight start allowing one or fewer runs.
Headed to the 13th inning.
We’ve had one single and one walk in extra innings. No player has reached second base.
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Thankfully we do not play this game like MLB with that dreadful extra innings rule!
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Top 14. Gray Dijkstra reaches base on an error by the pitcher. Dwayne Adams doubles: he has four the Neptunes’ five hits. Carlos Figueroa singles them in! Toledo 3, Chicago 1.
Bot 14. Jim Ashley triples. Thomas Arnaud strikes out. Samuel Amsden flies out. Kent Noseworthy walks.
CHI-YONG LEE HITS A THREE-RUN HOME RUN!
CHICAGO WINS, 4-3!!
Chicago leds the best of 7 series 3-2
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Side note, C Chi-Yong Lee was our primary catcher during the regular season. We had brought up a youngster at the end of the season to be the back up. He was in the top 40 in prospects and many were considering him to be the future starting catcher in Chicago mayabe as early as next season. But that player Juan Duran was injured in this series and would be out until mid-season next year. Unfortunately for the hero of the day, his days as a starter were likely coming to an end either way, despite having a solid rookie season and hitting the biggest HR in my history as the Chicago GM.
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USA Game 6: Chicago @ Toledo
Yale Hulbert vs. Dwayne Miller
Top 1. Reagan Osborn homers! Chicago 1, Toledo 0.
Top 2. Thomas Arnaud walks. Kent Noseworthy homers! Chicago 3, Toledo 0.
This was 2B Noseworthy's first hit in the series after going 0-19 in the first 5 games. He was almost benched for game 5 but we decided to ride it out.
Top 2 continued. Doug Deschamps singles. Cris Luna walks. Walker Dunse grounds to second. Play is at second, so runners on the corners. Jim Ashley singles in Deschamps. Reagan Osborn singles in Dunse. Chicago 5, Toledo 0.
Bot 2. Carlos Figueroa walks. Dusty Murphy singles. A fielder’s choice puts runners on the corners. Ken Armour singles in Figueroa. José Gómez singles in Ogawa. Armour gets thrown out at third to end the inning. Chicago 5, Toledo 2.
Top 3. Kent Noseworthy and Doug Deschamps single. Juan Durán walks, loading the bases with one out. Cris Luna grounds to second. Noseworthy scores. Chicago 6, Toledo 2.
That’s a big injury to Juan Durán. Broken kneecap. He will miss 8-9 months. Chicago apparently has chosen the “sacrificing players to the baseball gods in order to win” strategy.
Bot 6. Luís González homers! Chicago 6, Toledo 3.
Top 7. Thomas Arnaud homers! Chicago 7, Toledo 3.
Top 7 continued. Kent Noseworthy doubles. Doug Deschamps is plunked. Chi-Yong Lee flies out to end the inning.
Bot 8 Toledo is retired, 1-2-3, in the eighth.
To the ninth!
Top 9. With one out, António Méndez walks, and Thomas Arnaud singles. Kent Noseworthy singles. Bases loaded, still one out.
DOUG DESCHAMPS HITS A GRAND SLAM!!!!
9th CHI: Kent Noseworthy has 4 hits in the game.
Bot 9. With one out. Dusty Murphy walks. Toshikuni Ogawa singles. Casey Cowley grounds out. Ken Armour singles in Murphy. José Gómez grounds out.
CHICAGO WINS, 11-4!
The Architects are going to the World Series! Chicago wins the USA Championship 4 games to 2.
1B Reagan Osborn hit 4 home runs in the series and drove in 7 RBI's to take the Series MVP Trophy home for Chicago.
In the Canadian Division Final
The Thunder Bay Caribou downed Owens Sound 4 games to 2.
GLBL World Series
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