The biggest showdown game of the year turned out to be everything it was expected to be as the once-beaten Cubs and once-beaten Mets battled for the National League lead in Tullahoma Little League play Tuesday night.

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  The Mets wound up winning thanks in large part to a bases-loaded single by Scottie Maupin in the bottom of the fifth inning. The Cubs carried a 1-0 lead into the fifth, but Maupin’s hit drove in two runs, and when the throw home after second runner got away, a third run scored, and Maupin moved all the way around to third. He later scored on a wild pitch.

The Mets' Scottie Maupin delivers a game-changing hit in the bottom of the fifth inning of Tuesday's showdown with the Cubs. The Mets won 4-1.

  The game featured a great pitching duel between the Cubs’ Jordan Sheffield and the Mets’ Brandon Weddington through most of five innings. The Cubs still led 1-0 when Sheffield hit the maximum 85-pitch count in the bottom of the fifth with one out and the bases loaded, putting relief pitcher Tyler West in an extremely tough situation.
  After the Mets rallied for four in the bottom of the fifth, Weddington also hit the 85-pitch count after the first out of the sixth inning. Nick Moore came in to get the final two outs.
  The two teams came into the game with one loss each, and those losses came to each other. Tuesday’s win puts the Mets in position to claim the National League regular-season crown and a top seed in next week’s city tournament if they defeat the Dodgers Thursday night. Should they lose, then a potential make-up game with the American League champion A’s, who also have just one loss, would become a deciding factor.

A’s 12 Orioles 0 [Photos]
  The American League champion A’s broke it open with six runs in the fourth. Nick Thompson picked up the win on the mound. A’s sluggers Trey Burks and Sam Tomes were walked eight times in the contest, seven of them intentionally, and cleanup hitter Brad Roepke feasted on the opportunity with a homer, a double, a single and seven RBI.
  Alex Butaud and Tyler Fishback pitched for the Orioles, and Reed Gabriel had his team’s only two hits in the contest.

White Sox 8 Devil Rays 3
  Travis Crago had three hits, and Justin Hill, Peyton Phillips and Jacob Hise had two apiece to pace the White Sox’ 12-hit attack. Austin Rogers got all but the final out for the winners with Crago getting the final one.
  Caleb Zidan went 3 for 3 with a double and triple, and Ryan Lawson and Drew Lester had two hits each for the Rays. Zidan and Lawson did the pitching.

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