 | Sunday, November 2nd, 2008: Cleveland Wins SHL Championship
The CLE Indians defeated the BOS Red Sox in Game 5 of the Seamheads Historical League World Series by a score of 5-3 and secured their first championship since 1948. "Shoeless Joe" Jackson broke a 3-3 fifth-inning tie with a run-scoring triple, then came home on a Jim Thome double to give the Indians all the runs they'd need. Gaylord Perry held the Sox scoreless for the next three innings before closer Doug Jones came on in the ninth to finish off the victory. It was Perry's fourth win of the postseason and Jones' fourth save. Cy Young took the loss and fell to 2-2. Tris Speaker went 2-for-3 for the victors and finished the postseason with a .478 average; Jackson's RBI was his 21st of the postseason and he ended the series by throwing out Reggie Smith trying to go from first to third on a single by Jimmie Foxx. Ted Williams added two more hits for Boston and finished the postseason batting .378.
Congratulations to Indians owner Joe Posnanski for a job well done!
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 | Sunday, November 2nd, 2008: Cleveland One Win Away From Championship
The Cleveland Indians lost Game 3 in 10 innings to the Boston Red Sox, but won Game 4 and is one win away from copping the Seamheads Historical League championship. The Red Sox broke a 3-3 tie with two runs in the ninth inning of Game 3 only to watch the Indians plate two of their own to send the game into extra frames. But the Sox broke the tie again on a walk to Billy Goodman and a double by Carlton Fisk and held on for a hard-fought 6-5 win. Boston's two runs came on singles by Tris Speaker, Wade Boggs, and Carl Yastrzemski, and a fielder's choice groundout by David Ortiz. The Indians responded with a single by Jim Thome, a triple by pinch-hitter Earl Averill, and a sacrifice fly by Joe Sewell. Ted Williams paced the Red Sox with four hits and Johnny Romano led the Indians7> with two hits and two runs batted in. Jonathan Papelbon blew his first save of the postseason, but recorded the win, while Doug Jones was saddled with his first loss.
Game 4 also went extra innings, but the Indians came out on top by a score of 3-2 when Albert Belle walked to lead off the bottom of the 10th, Roberto Alomar singled, Joe Cronin booted Lou Boudreau's ground ball, and Nap Lajoie singled with two outs off Papelbon. Prior to that, the game was a tight 2-2 affair, as Smoky Joe Wood battled Addie Joss for nine solid innings before the Indians broke through in the 10th. Cleveland management decided to bypass Sam McDowell and went with Joss, who'd been brilliant in the postseason, and Joss didn't disappoint. He went all 10 innings, allowing no earned runs on only six hits and a walk, and improved to 4-0 with a 1.00 ERA in the postseason. Wood was almost as good, allowing two runs in nine innings before leaving in favor of Papelbon who took the loss.
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| Friday, October 31st, 2008: Indians Shock Sox, Take First Two
The Cleveland Indians continued their dominance over the Boston Red Sox and took the first two games of the Seamheads Historical League World Series by scores of 6-2 and 5-2, beating Boston for the eighth time in 10 games this season. The Indians jumped out to a 6-0 lead in Game 1 to back Addie Joss, who enjoyed yet another quality start in which he allowed only two runs in nine innings and improved to 3-0 with a 1.29 ERA in the postseason. Nap Lajoie, Tris Speaker, and Sandy Alomar had two hits each for the Tribe, but the big blow of the day came off the bat of pinch-hitter Earl Averill, who blasted a three-run homer in the eighth off Cy Young to give the Indians their final runs. Ted Williams, David Ortiz, and Carlton Fisk had two hits each for Boston.
In Game 2, four Indians hurlers, led by starter Gaylord Perry, held the Red Sox to only two runs on five hits and allowed only three hits over the last eight innings to lead the Tribe to a 5-2 win and give them a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. Jim Thome launched a two-run homer off Red Sox starter Pedro Martinez in the first inning and Cleveland never looked back, adding runs in the fifth, sixth, and seventh to take a 5-1 lead. A solo homer by David Ortiz off Don Mossi in the eighth brought Boston to within three, but that was as close as they'd get, as Doug Jones slammed the door in the ninth to earn his third save of the postseason. Joe Jackson paced the Indians with three hits and drove in his 20th run of the playoffs. Ortiz had two of Boston's five hits.
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