Game 1 Atlanta (Leibrandt) at Toronto (Stieb)
The NL Champions Atlanta Braves travel north of the border to take the AL Champion Toronto Blue Jays in game 1 of the KOD27 World Series. Charlie Leibrandt and Dave Stieb duel one another in the first 3 innings with each pitcher giving up 1 hit a piece. Atlanta strikes first in the 4th inning on a hit and 2 walks as Rafael Belliard singles in Terry Pendleton to give the Braves a 1-0 lead. Two innings later DH Keith Mitchell drills a ball to the bleachers and it is 2-0 after 6 innings. Still trailing by 2 runs Toronto finally gets something going against Leibrandt in the bottom of the 8th as DH Cliff Johnson ties the game with a 1 out 418 foot HR. Joey McLaughlin comes on in the 9th to try and keep the game tied but he allows Sid Bream a leadoff single and Belliard bunts him over to 2nd. Roy Lee Jackson comes on for McLaughlin and gets the second out before Otis Nixon singles to center to score Bream and give the Braves a 3-2 lead. Marvin Freeman comes on for Atlanta to try and get the save but he gives up a lead off walk. He then retires the next 2 batters but then hits a batter and Kent Merker comes on to get the last out.
Atlanta 3 Toronto 2 (Atlanta leads series 1-0)
Game 2 Atlanta (Gavine) at Toronto (Clancy)
The NL Champions Atlanta Braves travel north of the border to take the AL Champion Toronto Blue Jays in game 1 of the KOD27 World Series. Charlie Leibrandt and Dave Stieb duel one another in the first 3 innings with each pitcher giving up 1 hit a piece. Atlanta strikes first in the 4th inning on a hit and 2 walks as Rafael Belliard singles in Terry Pendleton to give the Braves a 1-0 lead. Two innings later DH Keith Mitchell drills a ball to the bleachers and it is 2-0 after 6 innings. Still trailing by 2 runs Toronto finally gets something going against Leibrandt in the bottom of the 8th as DH Cliff Johnson ties the game with a 1 out 418 foot HR. Joey McLaughlin comes on in the 9th to try and keep the game tied but he allows Sid Bream a leadoff single and Belliard bunts him over to 2nd. Roy Lee Jackson comes on for McLaughlin and gets the second out before Otis Nixon singles to center to score Bream and give the Braves a 3-2 lead. Marvin Freeman comes on for Atlanta to try and get the save but he gives up a lead off walk. He then retires the next 2 batters but then hits a batter and Kent Merker comes on to get the last out.
Atlanta 3 Toronto 2 (Atlanta leads series 1-0)
Game 2 Atlanta (Gavine) at Toronto (Clancy)
The usually reliable Tom Gavine did not have a good season so he needs to pick up his game as he faces Toronto’s Jim Clancy. Clancy immediately gets in trouble as with 1 out he gives up singles to Jeff Treadway and Terry Pendleton before he walks David Justice to load the base. It looks like Clancy will get out of the inning unscathed when he strikesout Ron Gant but then he walks Sid Bream to give the Braves a 1-0 lead. After Glavine retires Toronto in the 1st Atlanta breaks the game open in the second off of Clancy as he gives up 3 more walks 3 hits and a Toronto error to score 6 runs the big blow a Gant 3 run HR. Atlanta scored once again in the 3rd and Toronto scored in the 4th on a Lloyd Mosby double. Atlanta added its last run in the 9th and Mark Wohlers came on to pitch the 9th as the Braves win both games in Toronto and head south for the next 3 games.
Atlanta 10 Toronto 1 (Atlanta leads series 2-0)
Game 3 Toronto (Leal) at Atlanta (Smoltz)The Braves could only manage a single hit off of Luis Leal over the first 3 inning while Toronto left 2 on the third before taking their first lead of the series in the 4th on Garth Iorg single. However Atlanta, as in game 2 put up a 6 spot in the bottom of the inning with 6 hits capped off with a 2 run Terry Pendleton HR and a Ron Gant solo HR and the Braves let 6-1 after 4. That was the score for the next for innings until Atlanta finished off Toronto with 8 runs in the 8th highlighted with a Sid Bream Grand Slam.
Atlanta 14 Toronto 1 (Atlanta leads series 3-0)
Game 4 Toronto (Gott) at Atlanta (Avery)
Down to their last game the Blue Jays send Jim Gott to the mound against the Braves Steve Avery. Once again the starting pitchers shut down the offense for the first 3 innings until Atlanta opens the scoring for the 3rd time in 4 games. Sid Bream gets a one out single and back-up catcher Franciso Cabrera follows with a 2 run HR for a 2-0 lead. Gott pitched well as shut the Braves down for the next 3 innings and Avery did the same thing. The Blue Jays could not figure Avery out as he tossed a complete game shutout on 5 hits.
Atlanta 2 Toronto 0 (Atlanta wins World Series 4-0)
In a most surprising season for the ’91 Atlanta Braves they saved their best baseball for the post season going 11-3 and defeating 3 Divisional winners and only getting into the post season by beating Philadelphia. The Braves got timely hitting, great pitching and, of course, a little bit of luck to win the KOD27 World Series.
Congratulations to Robert for taking his Toronto team to the World Series and for having a great season of his own.
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