#2 Texas Armadillos vs. #7 WestAllis Cheesewedgers 

                        WINNING    LOSING
DATE  SCORE             PITCHER    PITCHER    SAVE        RECORD 

10-3  WAC  7 @TEX  6    Beckett    Harang     Isringhaus  WAC leads 1-0   
10-4  WAC  0 @TEX  3    Lilly      Young      Wagner      Series tied 1-1   
10-6  TEX  2 @WAC  8    Suppan     Glavine                WAC leads 2-1   
10-7  TEX  4 @WAC  9    Beckett    Hirsh      Shouse      WAC leads 3-1   
10-8  TEX  6 @WAC  2    Harang     Germano                WAC leads 3-2   
10-10 WAC  5 @TEX  1    Young      Lilly                  WAC wins series 4-2   

#3 Castaic Quakes vs. #6 Richmond Razzmatazz

                        WINNING    LOSING
DATE  SCORE             PITCHER    PITCHER    SAVE        RECORD 

10-3  RAZ  4 @CAQ  3    Hernandez  Hamels     Soriano     RAZ leads 1-0   
10-4  RAZ  7 @CAQ  4    Owings     Hill       Soriano     RAZ leads 2-0   
10-6  CAQ  3 @RAZ 13    Sosa       Snell                  RAZ leads 3-0   
10-7  CAQ  4 @RAZ  2    Lohse      Hill                   RAZ leads 3-1   
10-8  CAQ  2 @RAZ  4    Cruz       Hamels     Soriano     RAZ wins series 4-1   

#4 Brooklyn Cyclones vs. #5 Westpark Ripcats 

                        WINNING    LOSING
DATE  SCORE             PITCHER    PITCHER    SAVE        RECORD 

10-3  WES  4 @BRK  5    Peavy      Vazquez    Hoffman     BRK leads 1-0   
10-4  WES  2 @BRK  3    Zambrano   Lincecum   Hoffman     BRK leads 2-0   
10-6  BRK  1 @WES  4    Kazmir     Webb       Nathan      BRK leads 2-1   
10-7  BRK  2 @WES  1    Peavy      Marte                  BRK leads 3-1   
10-8  BRK  2 @WES  7    Wuertz     Zambrano   Franklin    BRK leads 3-2   
10-10 WES  1 @BRK  3    Webb       Lincecum   Hoffman     BRK wins series 4-2   

Semi-Final Series

#1 Maui Maulers vs. #7 WestAllis Cheesewedgers 

                        WINNING    LOSING
DATE  SCORE             PITCHER    PITCHER    SAVE        RECORD 

10-14 WAC  7 @MMM  3    Beckett    Oswalt                 WAC leads 1-0   
10-15 WAC  7 @MMM  5    Young      Mahay      Isringhaus  WAC leads 2-0
10-17 MMM  7 @WAC  4    Correia    Suppan     Accardo     WAC leads 2-1
10-18 MMM 10 @WAC 11    Burton     Pena                   WAC leads 3-1
10-19 MMM  0 @WAC  7    Germano    Hudson                 WAC wins series 4-1

#4 Brooklyn Cyclones vs. #6 Richmond Razzmatazz

                        WINNING    LOSING
DATE  SCORE             PITCHER    PITCHER    SAVE        RECORD 

10-14 RAZ  2 @BRK  7    Peavy      Hernandez              BRK leads 1-0
10-15 RAZ  9 @BRK  6    Owings     Zambrano   Soriano     Series tied 1-1
10-17 BRK  4 @RAZ  6(10)Affeldt    Webb                   RAZ leads 2-1
10-18 BRK  0 @RAZ  2    Hill       Peavy      Soriano     RAZ leads 3-1
10-19 BRK  9 @RAZ  3    Zambrano   Hernandez              RAZ leads 3-2
10-21 RAZ  4 @BRK  2    Owings     Webb       Soriano     RAZ wins series 4-2

World Series

#6 Richmond Razzmatazz vs. #7 WestAllis Cheesewedgers

                        WINNING    LOSING
DATE  SCORE             PITCHER    PITCHER    SAVE        RECORD 
10-24 WAC  7 @RAZ  1    Beckett    Hernandez              WAC leads 1-0
10-25 WAC  1 @RAZ  6    Owings     Young                  Series tied 1-1
10-27 RAZ  2 @WAC  7    Germano    Sosa                   WAC leads 2-1
10-28 RAZ  7 @WAC  2    Hill       Beckett                Series tied 2-2
10-29 RAZ  5 @WAC  1    Hernandez  Marshall               RAZ leads 3-2
10-31 WAC  1 @RAZ  7    Owings     Young                  RAZ wins series 4-2

Click here to view line scores from the 2008 Liberty League world series.

October 2007: League Playoffs

They say timing is everything, and it couldn't have been truer for the Westpark Ripcats, who won the league world series this year by sweeping the Virginia Beach Oddsox, giving the Liberty League its fourth different champion in its four years of existence.

Only four teams made the playoffs, with one series in the first round matching up Virginia Beach and the Conn River Patriots, both with 91-71 season record. The Oddsox prevailed in six games, despite being outhit to (.251/.340/.382 to .271/.356/.469) and outpitched (4.42 ERA to 3.50). They weren't outfielded, though; they committed only one error, while the Patriots committed seven. Those seven errors led to five unearned runs, and unearned runs were the difference in three of Virginia Beach's four victories.

The other series matched up Westpark's league-leading 97-65 record against Maui's 88-74. Westpark had figured to be an offensive powerhouse this season, since virtually everyone on their roster, including several of the players picked up in the latter rounds of the draft last year -- like Gary Matthews, Jr., David Ross, and Mark Derosa -- had turned in career years. That didn't turn out to be the case, though, with almost everybody in the lineup except Jim Thome underperforming: Matt Holliday, Garrett Atkins, and Matthews finished with an OPS about 150 points lower than in real life.

And that held up during the first round of the playoffs, when the Ripcats found themselves on the short end of a 3-2 edge, having batted a miserable .238 with only 18 runs scored in those five games. From that point on, though -- the remaining two games of the series with Maui, and the four games with the Oddsox -- Westpark clubbed the ball at a .342/.385/.445 clip, averaging over seven runs a game.

The playoffs proved two things. First, anything can happen in a short series. Had the Patriots been a little more careful tossing the ball around, they very well may have been the team that advanced to the league championship series. The 7th game between Maui and Westpark went 11 innings, and Maui had the winning run in scoring position in the 8th, 9th, and 10th innings, but couldn't push it across. And Virginia Beach, even though it got swept, was arguably the victim simply of one team getting very hot while the other team got very cold. It had actually had a season's edge in contests with Westpark, winning the 10 of the 18 games between the two.