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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!

Friday, October 24th, 2008: Red Sox Complete Sweep of Pirates
The Boston Red Sox took Games 3 and 4 over the Pittsburgh Pirates to complete a four-game sweep and advance to the Seamheads Historical League World Series. The Sox used a four-run seventh inning, highlighted by a two-run triple by pinch-hitter Carl Yastrzemski, to take a 4-3 lead over the Priates, then held on to win by the same score. Tris Speaker drove in a run, as did pinch-hitter Manny Ramirez, and Wade Boggs added two hits to help Lefty Grove to the victory. Honus Wagner and Brian Giles paced Pittsburgh with two hits apiece. Babe Adams suffered the loss.

Game 4 was also a one-run affair, but it took Boston 12 innings to get past the Pirates, 3-2. It looked like Pittsburgh was finally going to break into the win column when they took a 2-0 lead into the ninth, but the Red Sox rallied for two runs off Ed Morris to knot the game at 2-2. Tris Speaker singled to lead off the inning, but Ted Williams lined out to short for the first out, and when Nomar Garciaparra hit an easy grounder to third it looked like the Pirates may turn a game-ending double play, but Richie Hebner booted the ball and all runners were safe. Manny Ramirez walked to load the bases, then Morris coaxed Joe Cronin to pop up to the catcher for the second out. With Jimmie Foxx at the plate, Morris uncorked a wild pitch to bring one run home, then Foxx singled and plated Garciaparra with the tying run. The teams traded scoreless innings in the 10th and 11th before the Sox broke through in the 12th on a Ramirez solo homer off Roy Face. Derek Lowe came into the game to start the bottom of the
2th and set the Pirates down in order to preserve the victory. Joe Wood threw nine stellar innings, Jonathan Papelbon earned the win with two scoreless innings of relief, and Lowe got the save. Face suffered his second loss of the postseason and finished the playoffs with a 12.27 ERA.

Saturday, October 18th, 2008: Indians, Expos Advance to LCS
The Montreal Expos and Cleveland Indians won their respective Game 5 matchups to advance to the League Championship Series, and will face each other in the LCS for the right to meet the winner of the Pittsburgh Pirates/Boston Red Sox matchup in the Seamheads Historical League World Series. The Expos scored six runs over the last four innings and held off a late Braves rally to defeat BOS-MIL-ATL 6-4. Al Oliver went 4-for-4 to finish the series with a .636 average, and Gary Carter knocked in his first two runs of the LDS with a sixth-inning single that knotted the game at 2-2. Eddie Mathews, who went 3-for-4 with two RBIs, homered in the sixth to tie the game again at 3-3, but the Expos scored another in the seventh and two in the eighth to put the game away. The game wasn't without its share of controversy, either, as Braves starter Kid Nichols was inexplicably r
moved from the contest after tossing only 77 pitches in five shutout innings, and clinging to a 2-0 lead. The Braves' bullpen couldn't keep the Expos hitters at bay, however, and Montreal emerged victorious.

Meanwhile in Cleveland, the Indians used a four-run, eighth inning rally to break a 3-3 tie with Toronto, then withstood a two-run, ninth inning rally by the Blue Jays to hold on for a hard-fought 7-5 victory. Albert Belle supplied most of Cleveland's offense with two home runs and four RBIs, including a clutch three-run shot off reliever B.J. Ryan in the eighth, and Joe Jackson added two more hits and drove in his eighth and ninth runs of the series to lead all batters. Ernie Whitt hit his second homer of the series and drove in two runs, and Lloyd Moseby doubled and plated two to lead the Jays.

Team Leaders AVG

W. Boggs

.332