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- Updated: August 8, 2016
CINCINNATI — The RBI World Series championship game between the Passaic and Arizona RBI teams was a tightly contested one for much of the game, but a two-hit, one-walk rally in the sixth ended up giving Arizona a 3-2 lead that it did not relinquish.
Arizona won its final four games of the tournament after starting 0-2 in pool play.
“We played well in the regionals, and then we came over here, we didn’t do so hot in the first couple pool-play games,” Arizona coach Danny Rodriguez said. “We just grinded it out. We told them that pool play didn’t matter, we just had to get it done in single elimination. Just tip my hat off to the kids.”
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Passaic jumped to an early one-run lead with a two-run second inning capped off by a single from Chris Herrera that brought both runs home with the help of a throw from the outfield that sailed over the catcher’s head.
Arizona tied it in the third and then got shutdown pitching from Genner Cervantes to keep it tied until its offense was able to break the tie in the sixth. Michael Santorelli, who went 1-for-3 with an RBI as the starting left fielder, was brought …
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