The Arizona Fall League season came to a close with the Championship game on Saturday, with the West Division champion Peoria Javelinas facing the East Division champion Salt River Rafters, for whom Minnesota Twins prospects play.

The teams traded haymakers inning after inning in Scottsdale, AZ, with seven total home runs and twenty-one runs scored.

Eddie Rosario got the festivities started for the Rafters, launching a 1-1 pitch deep over the right field fence off Peoria starter Miguel Almonte of the Kansas City Royals for an early 1-0 lead.

In his next at-bat in the third inning, Rosario brought in the the third Rafters run with a hard ground ball single to centerfield, scoring Joe Sclafini. He would end up being picked off a batter later, but the damage was done.

Peoria would take the lead 6-3 after scoring three runs in each of the fourth and fifth innings, but the Rafters kept pace with two of their own in the fifth and sixth.

In the bottom of the fifth, with the score 6-5, Rosario faced a tough lefty in the form of Royals farmhand Daniel Stumpf, and proceeded to drill another hard ground ball into center for his third hit in three at-bats.

The Twins' Taylor Rogers came in to start the sixth inning for Salt River, and gave up a home run to the first batter he faced, Royals outfield prospect Bubba Starling, but would retire the next five hitters, before Reid Redman was brought in to face Hunter Dozier, also of the Royals, to end the top of the seventh.

It was the bottom half where the Rafters would blow the game open, and Rosario again played a large part. His double on the first pitch he saw would one-hop the right field wall, putting runners on second and third. An intentional walk would bring Max Kepler to the plate.

He quickly fell behind 0-2, but would lay off three consecutive pitches in the dirt and drew an RBI walk to score the innings first run. He was 0-4 for the game with the BB, RBI, and run scored.

With runners on first and second and two outs after six more runs had scored in the frame, Rosario got another chance, and on an 0-2 pitch again put good wood on the ball. Unfortunately, this line drive was snared by the rightfielder to end the inning.

The eighth and nine innings were uneventful, and Rosario, Kepler, Rogers and the rest of the Twins prospects and Rafters roster celebrated the victory.

Rosario finished the game 4-5 and just a triple shy of the cycle, with two runs scored and two RBI, to obviously take home (my) player of the game honors.