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ABL Championship

Aussie Osbournes vs. Kabul Stones

Game 1
Aussie (Green) @ Kabul (Naka)

Green shuts down Kabul for 7.2 innings as Aussie leads 2-0 going into the 9th inning.

After a scoreless top of the 9th Kabul has their last chance to get on the board. In the bottom of the 9th Ayyub Abdul-Basit comes in for Aussie to try to close it out. He gets the first batter to ground back to him and the second batter to ground out to 1st with him covering. He then strikes out Ricardo Alonso swinging on a 2-2 pitch to end the game.

Aussie wins game 1 by a 2-0 score and they take a 1-0 series lead.

Game 2
Aussie (Ya'qub) @ Kabul (bin Hassan)

The game is scoreless into the bottom of the 3rd. Juan Ducatanan hits a two out double to score Nawfal Muwaffaq from 1st and give Kabul a 1-0 lead. After three innings Kabul leads 1-0.

After two scoreless innings Aussie gets on the board as Muhsin bin Tamir drives an 0-2 pitch out to left for a solo homerun to lead off the 6th. After six innings the game is tied 1-1.

The game remains tied until the bottom of the 8th. Kabul has runners at the corners with 1 out and a double by Ronman Fernandez plates one to give Kabul a 2-1 lead. Kameel Abdul-Matin takes the very next pitch and drives it over the left field fence for a three run homerun to extend the lead to 5-1. After eight innings of play Kabul leads 5-1.

Janapati Davuluri comes in to pitch the 9th for Kabul. On the 1st 3 pitches he gets two ground outs and a single sandwiched in between to give Aussie a runner at 2nd with two outs. Nooh Fareed flies out to left on a 2-1 pitch to end the game.

Kabul wins the game 5-1 to even the series at 1-1 in front of 44,140 of their supporters.

Game 3
Kabul (Abdul-Qadir) @ Aussie (Paramita)

The only series to be 1-1 as both teams look to get to within 2 victories of a championship.

Kabul comes out on fire and blaze their way to an 8-2 victory and they take a 2-1 lead in the series.

Game 4
Kabul (PAssenger) @ Aussie (Neupokoev)

Aussie looks to even the series yet Kabul would be favored by pitching matchup.

Aussie scores 3 in the bottom of the 3rd to take a 3-0 lead, they would add another run and hold on for a 4-3 victory to even the series at 2-2.

Game 5
Kabul (Naka 0-1, 2.25) @ Aussie (Green 1-0, 0.00)

A key game 5 with the series ties at 2. Aussie wants to win to avoid going on the road trailing and having to win 2 straight road games.

Naka throws 7 scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts as Kabul shuts down Aussie 5-0.

Kabul will return home up 3-2 in the series.

Game 6
Aussie (Ya'qub 0-0, 1.35) @ Kabul (bin Hassan 1-0, 1.13)

Kabul tries to close it out at home and avoid a game 7.

Aussie scores 6 runs in the top of the 2nd and pound their way to an 11-2 victory as they tie the series 303 and force a game 7.

Game 7
Aussie (Paramita (0-1, 5.14) @ Kabul (Abdul-Qadir 1-0, 2.00)

Game 7 for all the marbles. Pitching matchup favors Kabul on paper but that hasn't always been the result in this post season.

Aussie pounds the ball all night and win going away 12-4.

The Aussie Osbournes are the 2013 ABL Champions!

Second baseman Muhsin bin Tamir is the series MVP as he hit .355 with 1 HR and 4 RBI's.