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GAME ONE – A wild one at Sportsman’s Park opened the series. The Nationals roared back from a 9-5 deficit with 5 runs in the final two innings to win 10-9. Ian Desmond led off the series with a home run. St. Louis hit back with 4 in B1. Doubles by “Baby Doll” Jacobson and George Sisler (4-3-4-3) plus RBI singles from Earl Smith and Wally Gerber paved the way. Michael Morse cracked a 2-run shot in the 3rd and Laynce Nix went solo in the 4th to tie it at 4-4. A Ryan Zimmerman error in B4 allowed Hank Severeid (Brown’s manager AJ Thomas’ great, great, great uncle) to score. The Nats would overcome 5 errors in the contest. Sisler’s solo bomb in the 5th gave the Browns a 6-4 lead. Alex Cora’s single in the T6 brought in Jayson Werth to make it 6-5. Another Sisler RBI hit and a 2-run Smith double put another crooked number up for the Brownies in the B6 to make it 9-5. Werth began the Nats comeback with a 2-run blast in the T8. Roger Bernadina followed with a triple and scored on a Rick Ankiel IF out. In the 9th Danny Espinosa tripled and scored on Morse’s single. He would score the winning run later in the inning on a Werth sac fly.
GAME TWO – St. Louis again jumped out to a big lead (7-0), but this time they held off a
late Washington charge for a 9-5 win to even the series. Sisler’s triple drove in a pair and Joe Gedeon brought him in with a sac fly for a 3-0 1st inning lead. The Brownies stacked on 4 more in the 2nd on consecutive RBI hits from Jack Tobin, Jacobson and Ken Williams, then another error by the Nats. The visitors booted 3 more in this one. Espinosa singled in Washington starter Livan Hernandez in the 3rd. Both clubs then took a couple of innings off from scoring. A rarity in this series. Each team tallied a run in the 6th with Bernadina and Smith knocking in runs for their respective clubs, 8-2 St. Loo. Werth got the Nats much closer with a 3-run clout in the 8th. Gedeon batted in one more in the B8 for the Brownies.
GAME THREE – Rick Ankiel’s bases loaded pinch-hit double highlighted a 4-run Washington rally in the B8 to lift the Nats to a 6-5 comeback win. The D.C. 9 plated a pair in the 1st on RBI knocks from Zimmerman and Werth. The Browns tied it in the 3rd on a Jacobson RBI triple followed by a Williams single. The visitor’s went up 5-2 the next inning when an error (2 more E’s for the Nats) and a passed ball led to 3 runs. The score remained the same until the Washington explosion in the 8th. Espinosa, Zimmerman and Morse all singled to load ‘em up. Werth popped out. Nix followed with a 2-run single and Ankiel doubled.
GAME FOUR – It continued to be offensive in Washington (isn’t that oxymoronic?). Both
clubs combined for 26 more hits, but St. Louis made better use of their 14 safeties to even the series with a 7-3 victory. Jacobson led the parade with 3, including a 2-run double to highlight the Brownies 3-run 8th. The Senators (I need it for this analogy) were very wasteful in Washington. Desmond, Zimmerman and Morse collected 3 hits apiece at the top of the lineup, but only scored twice between them. Overall the Nats left 13 men stranded. An oversight committee is being formed somewhere. George Sisler was tapped for MVP honors going 2-4 with a homer a double and 3 RBI.
GAME FIVE – Calls are now going up for a special prosecutor after this 13-5 debacle in favor of St. Louis. Rookie phenom Stephen Strasbourg is lit up for 5 earned runs on 11 hits in 6 IP?!? In the 7th, the Brownies plate 6 unearned runs when the Nats commit two more miscues. The evidence mounts. St. Louis cannot be faulted with 16 hits, including 4 each by Tobin and Gerber. Baby Doll Jacobson drove in 4.
So with the the nation’s capital swirling in scandal, the Browns head to sunny California to take on the 1973 Angels in the Elite 8. What can happen out there? It is closer to Vegas… Hmmmm!
-- Submitted by Ghostwriter Bruce Thomas
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