No Kansas City hitters have much experience against McHugh; a lot of them faced him for the first time in Game 1. Ben Zobrist (2-5) is the only batter with multiple hits and one of two with more than three at-bats.
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After pitching the Astros past the New York Yankees in the American League Wild Card game, Dallas Keuchel came up clutch again, and this time it came against the Kansas City Royals.
Dickey, the 2012 NL Cy Young victor, allowed one run over 42/3 innings and was pulled with a 7-1 lead and a runner on base.
Wade Davis was called upon for a six-out save, and was able to get the job done despite a ninth-inning single by Correa.
But there also was the downtrodden pitcher that nobody wanted to see with his head hung low: Ryan Madson. The Royals are desperate enough to tie the series and to force a Game 5 showdown.
The Royals managed to give up five walks in their last game. “We just found a way to get it done today”.
They took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five National League Division Series and can advance with a win at home on Tuesday. It was his first save of more than three outs in three years. The couple who sat next to my dad and me were very sociable and told us about their childhood rooting for the Royals.
In both cases, reliever Luke Gregerson played a key role in helping push the Royals ahead.
“I missed it, that’s what happened, “Correa said”.
“Moustakas came in after the seventh and fired up everybody, ” said pitcher Edinson Volquez, the Game 3 starter.
Hosmer, who entered the eighth batting. He gave up another single to make it 6-4 before the key play of the game occurred.
Gregerson struck out Rios to end the inning, but the damage done was compounded in the top of the ninth when Hosmer crushed a two-run home run to stretch the lead. Get at-bats, let’s start it moving. The first five men got base hits. But the Astros’ bullpen collapse wiped his name from the marquee and shifted momentum in dramatic fashion, turning the Astros from presumed series victors to needing another road win to keep their season alive.
The Houston Astros had a 6-2 lead in the top of the 8th inning after Carlos Correa and Colby Rasmus blasted back-to-back home runs in the 7th. Location, location, location – he can’t just lay the pitch out on the middle part of the plate like he did in Game 2. From a group that prides itself on the team concept, it seemed fitting.
Check out images from inside and outside Minute Maid Park for the ALDS Game 4 between the Astros and Royals.
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“At the beginning, he didn’t feel as strong”, said Royals catching coach Pedro Grifol, who translated for Cueto after the game.
