It is the first time in Cora’s tenure as manager the Red Sox have dropped back-to-back games in the postseason. (Photo: Mary DeCicco / MLB Photos via Getty Images)Īlex Cora’s questionable decision in Game 5 - sticking with left-hander Chris Sale not just for the third time through the Astros’ order, but also one last confrontation with Yordan Alvarez, who already had hit a home run and single off the Green Monster - was something else entirely.Īlvarez hit a one-out, two-run double, increasing the Astros’ lead to 3-0 in a game they went on to win, 9-1. “We were joking around with (Valdez) in the clubhouse that he really put the team on his shoulders tonight.” “It was incredible,” said Yordan Alvarez, who led Houston’s offense. If 2020 was Valdez’s playoff coming-out party, Wednesday’s 9-1 win - which puts Houston on the brink of advancement - was the night the left-hander put a team missing McCullers on his 240-lb. This was Valdez at his best, the $10,000 gamble the Astros took on the then-21-year-old materializing on baseball’s biggest stage.
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Game 1 of the AL Division Series - and going more innings (8) in Game 5 than Houston’s previous four starters combined (6 2/3). He restored order to chaos, giving the Astros their first quality start since Lance McCullers Jr. The 27-year-old didn’t just contain a Boston team that entered the day with 60 postseason runs, including 22 homers. Valdez, who became the first Astros starting pitcher in the American League Championship Series to complete the third inning, was utterly dominant against a lethal Red Sox lineup. If the ninth inning of Tuesday’s Game 4 was the night the Astros’ offense saved the series, consider Wednesday’s masterpiece by Framber Valdez the one that gives an alarmingly thin rotation a chance at a pennant. If you have one guy in the lineup that comes up at the right time, it makes all the difference in the world.” “Nobody else could hit him, but Alvarez had him. He was ready to swing,” Astros manager Dusty Baker said. “He’s a big boy in the middle, and he was just attacking. All three hits were off Red Sox left-hander Chris Sale, who had his good stuff on Wednesday, too. The left-handed-hitting Alvarez homered over the Green Monster in the second inning, singled off the Green Monster in the fourth and broke the game open with his two-run double to the left-field corner in the sixth. While Framber Valdez starred on the mound, it was Alvarez’s prodigious opposite-field strength that broke open the game.
The 24-year-old designated hitter powered the Astros in their 9-1 win in ALCS Game 5 on Wednesday at Fenway Park, which put them one win away from going back to the World Series. In 65 plate appearances, he struck out 21 times.īut after knee troubles limited him to only two August games in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, Alvarez has made his mark on the playoffs this October. On the heels of a historically productive regular season, which would make him the unanimous AL Rookie of the Year Award winner, he had only a. Yordan Alvarez’s first postseason was forgettable.
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It’s finally time to give up on the Red Sox.On Framber Valdez’s shoulders, the Astros are on the brink of a pennant (Britt Ghiroli).Yordan Alvarez powers the Astros to the cusp of another AL pennant with Game 5 barrage (Jake Kaplan).Check out all of our Game 5 coverage below. Nathan Eovaldi and Luis Garcia are the likely starters. Yordan Alvarez smacked a solo home run and a two-run double and Yuli Gurriel put up a trio of hits and RBIs to help power a Houston offense that piled up 11 hits. Framber Valdez went eight innings and held the Red Sox to three hits. The Houston Astros defeated the Boston Red Sox 9-1 on Wednesday night to take 3-2 lead in the American League Championship Series.
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