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Up and vanished season 3 tee12/20/2023 ![]() But it’s the Astros, so Yordan Alvarez homered, a frozen rope that vanished to right impossibly fast. He struck out nine over six innings and walked only one.Īgainst a lesser opponent, he might have gone even longer. When the Astros weren’t busy taking his curveball for a strike, they were swinging fruitlessly at it. In general, the opposing hitters aren’t the Astros. His best skill is his absolute refusal to walk opposing hitters, but he’s far more than just a command artist he gets a ton of soft contact, ramps up his strikeout stuff in big spots, and generally makes life miserable for opposing hitters. Nathan Eovaldi has been sharp all October, and his career postseason resume is downright sparkling. The Rangers had the perfect person on the mound against that kind of inexorable pressure. If you’ve watched the playoffs in recent years, you can surely picture Jose Altuve or Alex Bregman or Kyle Tucker celebrating as they round first after another back-breaking extra-base hit. They pile on a three-spot when it seems like the opposition is cruising. The Rangers have done this to a lot of teams this year they did it to the Orioles in the ALDS. ![]() ![]() Sprinkle in a bit of bad Houston luck - Valdez fumbled a comebacker for an error, Nathaniel Lowe hit a seeing-eye single on the kind of weak grounder that Valdez usually feasts on - and suddenly it was 4–0 Rangers. Mitch Garver never saw a sinker, but he did muscle the first in-zone pitch he saw to left, a sinking liner that brought home another run. ![]() A batter later, Adolis García lined a first-pitch sinker into right for an RBI single. Corey Seager blooped a first-pitch sinker into left. Marcus Semien smacked a first-pitch sinker past Jeremy Peña. ![]()
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