First baseman Kyle Schwarber made a nice play to scoop the throw replays showed he pulled his foot off the bag, but the Astros did not challenge the call.Īltuve has 21 career postseason home runs, breaking a tie with Derek Jeter for third-most in baseball history. He got Altuve to end the fifth on a hard grounder to Rafael Devers at third. Pivetta was charged with one run on two hits and two walks, striking out three. It was the third straight game the Red Sox got five or more innings from a starter, and the third straight that the Houston starter didn’t make it out of the second inning Zack Greinke got just four outs on Tuesday. Nick Pivetta allowed just one more hit after Bregman’s homer before leaving with a 2-1 lead through five innings. ![]() “We’re capable of doing that as well.”Īfter Alex Bregman hit a solo homer into the Green Monster seats in the first, Xander Bogaerts topped it with a towering, two-run drive onto Lansdowne Street in the bottom half to give the Red Sox a 2-1 lead.īogaerts followed Bregman’s 354-foot homer into the Green Monster seats in the top of the first with a 403-foot shot in the bottom half that cleared the Wall, the seats and the billboards above them before landing on Lansdowne Street. “That’s what they’ve been doing to us this whole series,” Astros manager Dusty Baker said. But that was just the beginning for Houston, which had seen Boston bully its pitchers for 10 homers in the series, including a record-setting three grand slams that turned Games 2 and 3 into routs. In a series that had been dominated by offense - especially Boston’s - the teams traded first-inning homers and then both pitching staffs put up six straight zeros on the Fenway scoreboard before Altuve’s leadoff shot in the eighth.Ĭarlos Correa doubled and scored the go-ahead run on Jason Castro’s two-out single in the ninth. ![]() Six outs from falling behind 3-1 in the best-of-seven series and facing a Game 5 in Fenway Park - where Boston hadn’t lost all postseason - the AL West champions instead guaranteed themselves at least one game back in Houston. Subscribe - $10 Sunday Delivery Sign In My Account Logout Primary Menu ☰ X
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