Green Wins World Series, 3-1

Saginaw Township – While on paper it looks as though the Green team had little problem defeating the White in the 2015 fall ball world series, on the field it was anything but easy.

Green finished things up on Tuesday with a wild 10-9 win to take the series three games to one and gain the all important prize for the year – the White team players carrying their luggage during Spring Trip in 2016.

"It's difficult to see the outcome happening any other way than the way it happened," said Green team coach and 2015 Delta alumni James Baer.  "Sure they were close games but in the end we really didn't doubt who would come out on top."

And close games they were.

Game one saw the Green team hold on late for a 6-5 victory after being up 6-1 going into the sixth inning.  That game was followed up by a 4-3 ten-inning win that ended on a double-steal of home.

Game three, White's only win, saw a 4-1 lead disappear in the top of the seventh as the Green team made it 4-2 with runners at the corners and two out.  But the White team picked the runner off at first to end the game, 4-3. 

It was only fitting that Tuesday's game come down to the final at-bat, but it didn't look that way at the onset as the White team scored four quick runs in the top of the first with the big blow being a Ty Jones homerun.  Green answered with one run in the bottom of the first before exploding for five more in the second to take a 6-4 lead.

White would tie the score in the top of the fourth only to see Green retake the lead 8-6 in the bottom of the inning and then go up three runs with one in the fifth.  White once again came back with two in the sixth and was down to their last out in the seventh, down one, when Jackson Worsley was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded that tied the game at nine apiece.

In the botth of the eighth, one out back-to-back singles put runners at first and second before a fielder's choice moved them up a bag.  With two out and the game winning and series clinching run just 90 feet away, Justin Heinlein singled up the middle to plate Zack Booth and set off a wild celebration at first base.

"We put ourselves in a great position to win every game," said White coach Greg Kazmierski.  "It's disappointing because I've been on both sides of this series in the past so I know how much it means to win it."

Colin Meacham collected the win for the Green team while Cody Orban was tagged with the loss.  Delta finishes the fall ball season with a four game series at Central Michigan University on Friday.