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Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #5 - Chicago 3, Los Angeles 1

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Strat-O-Matic Report - Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #5 - Chicago 3, Los Angeles 1 Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #5 - Chicago 3, Los Angeles 1. The 2020 Chicago White Sox (CM created by TOM PERELLA - see photo above) win the Championship Series in 5 games over Los Angeles (CM created by Corbin Dennis Vance). Perella is a member of both the ESSOM Spring League and the ESSOM Fall League. Chicago went 8-1 in the post-season with an ERA of 1.56! Game #5 saw a rematch of the Game #1 pitching matchup - Lucas Giolito for Chicago vs. Clayton Kershaw for Los Angeles, and Giolito prevailed again. LUCAS GIOLITO was named Post-Season MVP. He made 3 starts in the post-season, winning all 3, including Game #1 of both the Semifinal Series and the Championship Series, and of course the clincher in the Championship Series. He allowed just 1 run on 9 hits in 21-1/3 innings, with an ERA of 0.42 and a WHIP of 0.94, and holding opposing batters to a .127 battin...

Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #4 - Los Angeles 3, Chicago 0

Strat-O-Matic Report - Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #4 - Los Angeles 3, Chicago 0 Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #4 - Los Angeles 3, Chicago 0. Los Angeles stays alive as Tony Gonsolin (2 hits, 7 strikeouts, no walks in 7 innings) and Brusdar Graterol (2 perfect innings of relief) shut out Chicago. Chicago starter Dane Dunning also pitched well (2 hits in 5 scoreless innings). This game was scoreless until the 9th inning. Batting against Chicago reliever Cody Heuer, Max Muncy led off the 9th with a homer. Later in the inning, rbi singles by Mookie Betts and Will Smith made it 3-0. Graterol got the win and Heuer got the loss. Los Angeles stranded 10 runners - but came through in the 9th when it mattered most. Chicago still leads the series 3 games to 1; the pitching matchup for Game #5 will be Clayton Kershaw for Los Angeles and Lucas Giolito for Chicago. BOXSCORE: 2020 Los Angeles Dodgers At 2020 Chicago White Sox 10/27/2020 L.A. ...

Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #3 - Chicago 7, Los Angeles 2

Strat-O-Matic Report - Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #3 - Chicago 7, Los Angeles 2 Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #3 - Chicago 7, Los Angeles 2. Chicago hits 6 homeruns (2 by Eloy Jimenez) while Los Angeles is held to just 2 hits, and Chicago now leads the Championship Series 3 games to none. Aside from the two homers by Jimenez, four other Chicago players homered: James McCann, Yoan Moncada, Adam Engel, and Jose Abreu. Los Angeles starter Julio Urias only lasted 1-1/3 innings and was charged with the loss. Chicago starter Dylan Cease got the win, allowing just 1 hit in 5 innings. The only Los Angeles hits were a 1st inning single by Mookie Betts off Cease (the only hit off Cease) and a homer by Betts off reliever Alex McRae in the top of the 6th. Can Los Angeles win 4 straight games? We will soon find out. The pitching matchups for Game #4 are Dane Dunning for Chicago and Tony Gonsolin for Los Angeles. BOXSCORE: 2020 Los Angeles Dodgers...

Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #2 - Chicago 3, Los Angeles 2

Strat-O-Matic Report - Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #2 - Chicago 3, Los Angeles 2 Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #2 - Chicago 3, Los Angeles 2. Yasmani Grandal's rbi single in the 8th off Los Angeles reliever Victor Gonzalez breaks a 2-2 tie, Alex Colome gets another save, and Chicago wins another 1-run game to go up 2 games to none in the Championship Series. In the top of the 1st, Chicago loaded the bases with nobody out against Los Angeles starter Dustin May, but May got out of the jam without allowing a run. In the bottom of the 1st with 1 out and a man on firstbase, Corey Seager tripled off Chicago starter Dallas Keuchel, and then scored on a passed ball to put Los Angeles up 2-0. Then, with 1 out in the top of the 2nd, Leury Garcia singled, moved to second on a sacrifice by Keuchel, and scored on a double by Yolmer Sanchez. And this was followed by a single by Yoan Moncada, scoring Sanchez to tie the game. That's how it stayed u...

Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #1 - Chicago 2, Los Angeles 1

Strat-O-Matic Report - Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #1 - Chicago 2, Los Angeles 1 Blue Sox Season #4, Championship Series, Game #1 - Chicago 2, Los Angeles 1. Lucas Giolito held Los Angeles scoreless for 8 innings, striking out 10, walking 1, and allowing just 3 hits, and that enabled Chicago to win the Championship Series Opener. Going up against Clayton Kershaw, Chicago shortstop Tim Anderson doubled to lead off the top of the 4th inning, and after there were 2 out, James McCann singled him home to put Chicago up 1-0. And Eloy Jimenez led off the top of the 7th by homering off Kershaw to make it 2-0. That was all for Kershaw, who was replaced by Victor Gonzalez. Gonzalez held Chicago scoreless the rest of the way. In the bottom of the 9th, Alex Colome came on to try to close it out for Chicago. He got Will Smith to fly out and then got Mookie Betts to pop out, and Los Angeles was down to their last out. Corey Seager slammed a homer off Colome to make it...