World Series GAME 1: “Boston Rockets to 1-0 lead”

KOD24 World Series – GAME 1

Game MVP: Clemens

Fenway Park

57 degrees, threatening skies

Clemens vs Perry

Boston 8 San Francisco 2

The first game of the KOD24 Fall Classic had the season long staff aces, Clemens for Boston and Perry for San Francisco facing off on a 57 degree night with a threat of rain.

Boston wasted no time getting on the board in the bottom of the 1^st as Benzinger and Boggs single ahead of a Mike Greenwell deep fly ball to center rove in Benzinger. An error by Jim Ray Hart and a single by Jim Rice gave Boston a 3-0 lead.

In the top of the 2^nd Clemens issued two walks with a single in between to load up the bases for the Jints with none out. A passed ball and a ground out yielded two runs and after two the Giants were back in the game. Ellis Burks lead off triple in the bottom of the third resulted in a run after a Dwight Evans double. With this the pitchers settled down until the bottom of the 7^th when Boston exploded for 4 more runs as Evans drove in two with another double and Rice hit a 2 run home run. Leading 8-2 after 7 the game would end this way with Boston claiming the early series lead.

--all WS articles submitted by Mark Nixon--