LAUREATES 3 UNIVERSE 0
Jonathan Swift shuts out the Universe in Game One. Allowing only two hits, walking one, and striking out 17, Swift, who was 22-5 during the regular season, wins his second game of the playoffs. The LA Gamers beat Swift in LA, 2-0 behind Lewis Carroll, despite Swift’s 18 strikeouts. John Townsend Trowbridge provided all the offense Swift would need when he homered in the second inning, off Lucian Freud, giving Dublin a 1-0 lead. Freud struck out six and walked none, turning in a solid performance, but he was burned again, by a Trowbridge home run in the 8th, this time a two run blast with Mirza Ghalib aboard. Bob Dylan, who doubled in the seventh, was the only player to reach second base for the Universe.
LAUREATES 4 UNIVERSE 2
Blaise Pascal fans 13 and goes the distance, as the Laureates go up 2 games to none, in Dublin, against the Phoenix Universe. Martin Luther King Jr took the loss, as Dublin’s John Townsend Trowbridge hit his third homer in two games in the fourth inning with two aboard, to give the Laureates a 3-0 lead. The Universe made it 3-2 in the fifth when Chuck Berry and Henrik Ibsen singled and Bob Dylan doubled them in. But Pascal then fanned Juvenal and Paul Celan to end the inning. Aphra Behn added an insurance run when she homered against King in the seventh. The series moves to Phoenix for Game Three as Harriet Beecher Stowe will be called on to stop the Laureates. Robert Louis Stevenson will start for Dublin.