Next out of the pen for Houston was Brad Peacock, on just one day’s rest after a 53-pitch, 3 2/3–inning save in Game 3. The Astros followed in the bottom half of fifth with two walks and a three-run homer of their own, this one from Altuve, at which point the game left the realm of the reasonable, never to return. #WorldSeries - FOX Sports: MLB October 30, 2017 McHugh walked the first two batters he faced, then allowed them to score two batters later when Cody Bellinger took him out to right.ĬODY BELLINGER GONE! The take the 7-4 lead. Hinch didn’t use Giles, but he did use six of his other seven relievers, starting with forgotten veteran Luke Gregerson, who cleaned up Keuchel’s mess in the fourth.Ĭollin McHugh, last seen throwing four no-hit innings of mop-up work in Game 3 of the ALCS, came out to start the top of the fifth. “I’ll try to lift the burden off of him carrying this end-of-the-game pressure with him.” “I’m not sure who will go to, but it most likely won’t go to Ken tonight,” Hinch said before Game 5. After Ken Giles blew Game 4, Hinch was publicly hesitant about handing the ball to his closer again in Game 5. What followed over the next three and a half hours strains credibility. They kept grinding and got the big hit when they needed to.” And I don’t know, I think that Gurriel took a good swing on a pitch. “He was throwing the ball well, good rhythm.
“ was rolling,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. Gurriel hit Kershaw’s slider into the seats. The next pitch was a flat, belt-high slider to Astros first baseman Yuli Gurriel, whose very presence in the lineup was controversial after he was caught making a racist gesture during Game 3. The first run of the game, particularly against a pitcher like Kershaw, is an important psychological victory, but Correa’s fourth-inning double was more like cracking open the Well to Hell, turning Game 5 from a routine, if somewhat boring, Dodgers victory into a trans-Atlantic convoy to the Island of Not Being Able to Feel Your Extremities. Altuve singled, then Carlos Correa doubled to left to plate Springer and open the book on Kershaw.Ĭorrea’s double, all but forgotten in the larger story of the game, had a peculiar effect. He walked George Springer to lead off the fourth, then retired Alex Bregman on a seven-pitch at-bat. Kershaw entered the fourth inning with a 4–0 lead after his opposite number, Keuchel, had given up three runs in the first and another in the fourth.
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When it started 25 years ago, Game 5 of the World Series represented an opportunity for Dodgers lefty Kershaw to once and for all stamp out his reputation for underperforming in the playoffs, and through three scoreless innings and one time through the order, it looked like that’s exactly what he was going to do. “It’s hard to put into words all the twists and turns in that game, the emotion, doing it at home, in front of our home crowd.”Īt some point Sunday night I typed the words “Clayton Kershaw” and “perfect game,” as if they might be combined in print for the public to consume, but that memory is hazy thanks to the passage of time and seven innings of back-and-forth offense that constitute nothing less than an assault on the human central nervous system.Ī First-Time Baseball Fan’s Guide to the Craziest World Series Ever “Just when I thought I could describe Game 2 as my favorite game of all time, I think Game 5 exceeded that and more,” Astros manager A.J. It’s like the home run barrage that staggered a nation in Game 2 went electric, signed to a major label, and headlined a national arena tour. It involved 14 pitchers, who gave up 28 hits, and seven home runs hit by seven different players. The Astros ended up winning 13–12 in a game that took 10 innings played over five hours and 17 minutes. The Astros were about to hit their second game-tying home run in as many innings, a towering two-out shot by José Altuve that meandered over the center-field fence to bring the score to 7–7.
Sunday’s Game 5 revolved around a confrontation between two of the best left-handed pitchers in baseball, both former Cy Young winners, who’d combined for a tidy series opener on Tuesday, a 3–1 Dodgers win that lasted just 148 minutes.īy the 148th minute of Game 5, both Clayton Kershaw and Dallas Keuchel had been chased and the game had taken on a flavor new to the series: absolute, unmitigated, chaotic terror. Through four games, the 2017 World Series had seen drama, surprise, controversy, villainy, heroism - the whole narrative gamut.
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