The Cardinals had won the regular season title in the Los Gatos Pony League National League with a 13-4 record, and the Orioles had gone 12-5 to win the American League crown. And the two champs were destined to go head-to-head in the local Pony League World Series.

The Cards won the first game 10-4 in the best-of-three series, then made it a clean sweep with the come-from-behind 4-2 win over the O's in the second game.

Things didn't look all that good for the Cards in the early innings of the second game, though. Pitcher Patrick McClain was touched for four hits in two innings, and his club trailed the O's 2-0 after three innings. What's more, opposing hurler Bricklin Foley was tossing a two-hit shutout heading into the fifth, and the Orioles were on the verge of evening the series at a game apiece.

But the Cardinals had other ideas. They scrapped for unearned runs in the fifth to pull out a 4-2 victory to win the series.

Ben Campbell and Ben Taylor opened the fifth with consecutive singles before Campbell was forced at third on a foiled sacrifice bunt attempt by Nathan Blaney.

A batter later things began to unravel for the O's, though. McClain struck out on a curve ball in the dirt and took off for first. The catcher checked the runner at third, then threw to first. But as he did, Taylor broke for the plate. The first sacker came off the bag for the throw and tossed back to the plate. But Taylor beat the throw for the run, and the Cards had runners at the corners.

McClain stole second and Robbie Comeau walked to load the bases. The tying run scored when Paul Politi reached an error, and two more runs scored when Matt Ellis got on on error.

The Orioles had taken the early lead with a run in the second when Bradley Tomy doubled and scored on a single by Blake Zamudio.

The O's scored again in the third without benefit of a hit. Foley drew a one-out walk, stole second, took third when the throw got away on the steal and scored on a ground out by Comeau.

But McClain would blank the O's on one hit the rest of the way to nail down the complete game win. McClain struck out six and walked just two as he tossed a five-hitter.

Foley was impressive in the loss. He allowed just four hits, a walk and a hit batsman and he struck out nine as he went the distance.

Ellis, McClain, Campbell and Taylor each singled for the Cardinals in the win. Tomy had the double and Zamudio, Foley, Riley Curran and Kevin Arroyo each singled for the Orioles.

The win clinched the World Series championship for the Cardinals. They had opened the series with a lopsided 10-4 win over the O's.

Ellis went 5 2/3 innings to get the win in the opener, striking out 11, walking four and giving up three hits. Comeau tossed 1 1/3 shutout innings in relief.

The Cards scored a run in the first on a double by Comeau and a single by Ellis, then scored five in the fourth on a two-run single by McClain and a bases-loaded triple by Ellis. The Cardinals scored four more in the fifth on two-run singles by McClain and Kyle Goodison.

The O's picked up a run in the fifth when Garrett Blackwell singled and scored on a hit by Anthony Ladd, then they added three in the sixth when Arroyo singled, Foley walked and Curran blasted a three-run homer.

The Cardinals came back after the World Series win to beat the A's 3-2 in the Los Gatos Pony League tournament opener. The Cards scored a run in the bottom of the seventh to tie it, and a run in the eighth to win it in extra innings.

Ryan Ginanni walked and Taylor belted his second hit of the game before McClain reached on an error to allow the tying run to score.

The Cardinals won it in the eighth when Politi walked, Ellis singled, Nathan DaSilva walked and Chris Walker was hit by a pitch to force home the final run.

Taylor threw three shutout innings for the Cards, but it was Ellis picking up the win with four innings of four-hit relief. Taylor fanned three and Ellis struck out nine.

The A's took the early lead in the fourth when Eric McDonald walked, stole second and scored on a single by Steven Garvey, but the tied it in the bottom of the inning when DaSilva walked, stole second and scored on a single by Goodison.

Singles by Mikey Denevi, Ryan Honda and Anton Abiog gave the A's a 2-1 lead in the seventh, but the Cards would tie it, then win it in the eighth.

McDonald struck out 12 and allowed just four hits over seven innings in the loss. Nick Kalpin singled and doubled for the A's.

Ryan Black tossed a complete to get the win for the Red Sox in a 5-2 win over the Astros. He struck out 10 and allowed just five hits and two walks. Andrew Clark had two hits and David Cardinale ripped a ground-rule double in the fourth, driving in a run and then scoring on a single by Andy Gomez.

Steven Krach and Bryan Johnson had two hits apiece for the Astros.

Raymond Salazar went the distance to flip a three-hitter, striking out 18 and walking only three, to lead the Giants to a 3-1 win over the Yankees.

Tim Sweeney tripled and scored when Michael McCarthy reached on an error to give the Giants the 1-0 lead in the first, and they scored two more on four errors in the third.

Nick Smith was 3-for-3 in the win and Salazar singled.

Zack Delap singled and doubled and scored a run for the Yankees and Thomas Bess had a hit.

Blake Morrison went the distance to toss a five-hitter in the loss, striking out eight and walking none.

In the league tourney opener, the Cubs upset the Orioles 12-0 on a three-hit shutout by David Martini. He struck out 15 and walked one in the win.

K.C. Silva had three hits and Kyle Jury and Martini each singled and doubled in the win.

Arroyo had two hits and Foley singled for the O's.

The four first-round losers played second-round games on Sunday with winners games played on Monday (Giants vs. Cubs) and Tuesday (Red Sox vs. Cardinals).