High Powered Offenses Square Off, Rollers use Longball to Take Game 1

The only two teams to score over 1000 runs during the regular season, the Finger Lakes Flashes and Ybor City Rollers, figure to have a lot of high scoring affairs this Lp2 World Series.
The Flashes struck first, as they have all postseason, scoring two runs in the top of the first off of Rollers starter Chris Carpenter. Grady Sizemore's triple drove in Arky Vaughan, and Manny Ramirez's sac fly scored Grady, putting the Flashes up 2-0. The Rollers would respond in the bottom of the inning, as Joe Mauer and Stan Musial hit back-to-back homers to right to tie the game at 2.

Finger Lakes starter Justin Verlander couldn't contain the Rollers bats, even after his team had staked him to a 5-2 lead courtesy of a two-run double by Michael Barrett, his own RBI groundout and a Vaughan RBI single. He promptly walked the bases loaded in the bottom of the inning, before surrendering a sac fly to Mauer and 3-run blast to Musial to put the Rollers in front 6-5.

Mark Teixeira added Ybor's fourth homer of the game in the 8th, and Jon Papelbon was able to finish off the 9-6 win with a scoreless 9th.

The two teams square off again tomorrow, with the Flashes sending Mike Mussina to the mound against Ybor's Brandon Webb.