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Houston takes thrilling game two with power
As if the World Series had fallen asleep as the game stretched into the later hours. Both teams woke up in the eighth inning, combining for eight home runs over three extra innings of play.
The Dodgers, who have dominated the National League with its great pitching and bullpen, we’re looking to match wits with Major League Baseball’s top run producing team. The Dodgers decorated bullpen had not seen the type of greeting Houston have typically imposed on teams in the American League.
The Astros launched four late home runs steaming off the bats of Marwin Gonzales, Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa and George Springer which made the difference in Houston heading home down 0-2. Instead, bouncing back to edge Los Angeles, 7-6 in game two of the 2017 World Series on Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium.
The Astros evened the series, 1-1 to collect its first win in World series play.
(when it looked as if it would be a replay of game one could have fallen apart after Los Angeles late runs to regain the lead.)
Springer, the second batter up in the top of the 11th inning watched Cameron Maybin single and steal second base before sending a pitch over the center field wall, putting the Astros ahead for the remainder of the game. It was the second homer by Springer since the postseason began.
Before that, Altuve and Correa drilled back-to-back home runs in the top of the tenth, pushing Houston’s lead, 5-3. But it would not hold as closer Ken Giles surrendered a home run to Yasiel Puis and gave up a game-tying RBI single to Hernandez, who platted Logan Forsythe, who reached first base on a walk.
That led to the end of Giles evening after allowing two earned runs in one, and two-thirds innings as Chris Devenski came on in relief to retire Chris Taylor.
Devenski closed out the game but not before Dodgers’ Charlie Culberson sent a shot to center, trimming Houston’s lead, 7-6. After, Puis struck out to end the game.
Third baseman Alex Bregman, whose RBI double ignited the eighth inning rally while scoring Houston’s second run and halted Los Angeles’ bullpen 28-game streak of scoreless innings. That trimmed the Dodgers lead to one, 3-2.
For the second night straight, the Astros were stirring down the pipe of defeat until Gonzalez tied the game at three, in the ninth inning with a solo homer. Before Bregman and Gonzalez heroics, Cory Seager gave Astro fans a reminder of game one by jolting a two-run homer, to give the Dodgers an identical 3-1 lead as in game one.