Woodward goes out in style as 51s win finale

Chris Woodward put a fitting cap on his 18-year professional baseball career Monday, scoring the decisive run in the 51s' 3-2 win over the Colorado Springs Sky Sox in a Pacific Coast League season finale in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Woodward hit a two-out double to left field and scored on Danny Perales' single to left to give Las Vegas (79-64) a 3-2 lead in the sixth inning.

Four 51s relievers then combined to throw four scoreless innings to preserve the win for Bill Murphy (8-5), who gave up two runs on four hits in five innings.

Woodward, a 36-year-old utility infielder, was a 54th-round draft pick by the Blue Jays in 1994 and debuted in the majors with Toronto in 1999. This season was only the second since '99 that Woodward didn't spend time in the majors, where he batted .239 in 659 games with the Blue Jays, Mets, Braves, Mariners and Red Sox.

Woodward, who batted .291 in 196 games with the 51s over the past two seasons, announced he would retire at the end of the 2012 campaign.

Perales hit a two-out double in the second and scored on Ryan Eigsti's single to put Las Vegas up 1-0. Luke Hughes led off the fourth inning with a home run.

The Sky Sox (75-69) scored on Chad Tracy's sacrifice fly in the second and Brandon Roberts' RBI single in the fifth.