1992 NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES #1
| Long Beach Titans & Winnipeg Goldeyes | |
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| Series Preview: |  Long Beach at Winnipeg. Long Beach has excellent starting pitching as does Winnipeg so this series should be a good one. Last year Winnipeg managed to use this strategy of great pitching and team speed to win the world series would the luck continue in 92? One advantage Winnipeg has is the strength and depth of the Winnipeg bullpen |
| Game #1: | It looked good for Long Beach as Schilling allowed a homer to Fielder as the Titans scored 2 runs int he first. But Ventura answered with an rbi hit to cut the lead to 2-1. In the 6th Fielder came up big driving in Baegra again. However in the bottom of the 6th Ventura Winnipeg best clutch hitter came through with a 2 run hit off Guzman. With the Game tied 3-3 Selkirk went to the pen. Beck pitched a clean 8th. In the bottom of the 8th Javy Lopez came off the bench and got a rbi single off Perez to give Winnipeg a 4-3 lead. Rojas then pitched the 9th for the save. Winnipeg 4 Long Beach 3 Long Beach 3 6 0 Winnipeg 4 6 0 W-Beck(1-0) S-Rojas (1) L-Perez(0-1) HR. Fielder (1) |
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| Game #2: | Glavine was great not only on the mound going 7.1 shutout innings but with the bat as he went 2 for 3 with a rbi plus causing a huge Gonzalez error to score two runs. Rojas then locked the door in this easy 5-0 Winnipeg win. Winnipeg 5 Long Beach 0 Long Beach 0 5 1 Winnipeg 5 6 0 W-Glavine(1-0) S-Rojas(2) L-Martinez(0-1) Hr: None |
| After 2 Games: | Winnipeg takes the first two at home through strong pitching and clutch hitting. Games 3 4 with Candiotti, and Schilling and taking the hill at Long beach. If the series goes 5 games Glavine will be asked to come through again for Winnipeg.
Long Beach returns home desperately needing a win to stay alive in the series. |
| Game #3: | Long Beach opened the scoring in the 3rd on run scoring hits by Pendleton & Fielder to take a 2-0 lead. Smith added a solo HR in the 4th to make it 3-0. Winnipeg cut the lead to 3-2 in the 6th on a Devereaux RBI 1B and a McGwire SF. The Goldeyes got to the Long Beach bullpen when Lofton hit a 3 run HR in the 7th to move Winnipeg to a 5-3 lead. That’s the way it ended as Beck and Rojas threw 3 no hit innings to close out the series. The Titan bullpen which had been so strong all year let them down in the most important game of the season. |
| Series Summary: | A sweep for Winnipeg – They will move on to face the winner of the Manhattan / Germantown series, |