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08/24/2005 Archived Entry: "Mexican League News : Division Championship Series Coverage"
By Carlos Fragoso
Tigers won yesterday and put Yucatan Lions against the wall, but they have to remember what happened to Tabasco after leading series 3-0, and then Yucatan acheived a great comeback, but today , Tigers are playing so well in order to be considered a serious threat to gethe title.
In other series, playing in Saltillo the Tijuana Colts won again to get a lead in series 2-1 against Sarape Makers.
HUGOS CASTELLANOS tossed a solid 6 innings pitching, allowing 2 runs and get the support of 2 ribbies by WILLIE ARANO as well as solo home runs by DERRICK WHITE and GEORGE ARIAS to lead Tijuana to this important win off STEVE BOURGEOIS and Sarape Makers.
For Saltillo, MORGAN BURKHART and MARIO VALENZUELA hit back to back homers, in the 7th inning, being Valenzuela´s one ,his 8th in post season tying a record set by Andres Mora and tied this same year by LUIS GARCIA and ADAN MUÑOZ, who jointly with Valenzuela are still in the play off, and with the chance to break the record.
TIJUANA 002 110 002 6 9 1
SALTILLO 000 000 200 2 4 0
H Castellanos, Parra (7), Shibilo (8) and Valdez; Burgeois, M Pérez (7), Almonte (9), Mendoza (9), Ruiz (9) and N Muñoz
WP: Castellanos 1-1
LP: Burgeois 1-1
Sv: Shibilo 5
HR: TIJ: D. White (4), G. Arias (6). SLT: M. Valenzuela (8), M. Burkhart (6).
JESUS OLAGUE 5 innins game,plus 5 more relievers made Tigers to beat Yucatan 5-2 to take an almost definite lead in this series.JAVIER ROBLEs the regular season batting champion, provided all the support with a 3 runs home run.
Yucatan scored 3 runs in the 8th to reached, 25 scorless innings in the series, and you might wondered how great their pitching staff are doing off Lions.
OSCAR RIVERA lost for Yucatan, and Tigers might as well win tonight and let the series continue, because Yucatan showed how difficult to beat are when playing behind in series.
TIGERS 000 311 000 5 11 0
YUCATAN 000 000 020 2 8 0
Olague, G Carrillo (6), Huerta (6), Zambrano (8), L Muñoz (8), Manzano (8) and A Muñoz; Rivera, I Florez (4), Ortega (6), Carrasco (6), Cámara (7), Espadas (8), Navarro (9), Ramos (9) and Castañeda
WP: Olague 2-0
LP: Rivera 3-2
Sv: Manzano 3
HR: TIG: M. Carrillo (2), J. Robles (4).
