Japan Times
Jeremy Pena, hitless in his first seven at-bats, homered leading off the 18th inning as the Houston Astros eliminated the host Seattle Mariners in the American League Division Series with a 1-0 victory Saturday.
The Astros swept the best-of-five series 3-0, advancing to the ALCS for the sixth straight year and spoiling Seattle’s first postseason appearance since 2001.
Houston will face either the New York Yankees or the Cleveland Guardians for a berth in the World Series.
Pena’s homer, which just cleared the wall in left-center field on a 3-2 pitch from Mariners right-hander Penn Murfee, decided the longest scoreless game in postseason history. It surpassed the 14 innings Cleveland and Tampa Bay played without a run earlier this month in the AL wild-card round.
Astros right-hander Luis Garcia pitched five innings of two-hit ball for the victory. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out six.
The teams combined to strike out 42 times, strand 24 runners on base and went 0 for 19 with runners in scoring position. The game lasted 6 hours and 22 minutes.
The game featured sterling efforts from starting pitchers Lance McCullers Jr. of Houston and Seattle rookie George Kirby.
McCullers allowed two hits through six innings with two walks and seven strikeouts. Kirby, making his first postseason start, went seven innings and gave up six hits, didn’t walk a batter and struck out five.
The Astros swept the best-of-five series 3-0, advancing to the ALCS for the sixth straight year and spoiling Seattle’s first postseason appearance since 2001.
Houston will face either the New York Yankees or the Cleveland Guardians for a berth in the World Series.
Pena’s homer, which just cleared the wall in left-center field on a 3-2 pitch from Mariners right-hander Penn Murfee, decided the longest scoreless game in postseason history. It surpassed the 14 innings Cleveland and Tampa Bay played without a run earlier this month in the AL wild-card round.
Astros right-hander Luis Garcia pitched five innings of two-hit ball for the victory. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out six.
The teams combined to strike out 42 times, strand 24 runners on base and went 0 for 19 with runners in scoring position. The game lasted 6 hours and 22 minutes.
The game featured sterling efforts from starting pitchers Lance McCullers Jr. of Houston and Seattle rookie George Kirby.
McCullers allowed two hits through six innings with two walks and seven strikeouts. Kirby, making his first postseason start, went seven innings and gave up six hits, didn’t walk a batter and struck out five.
10 comments:
If they go against the Yankees they will need to cheat in order to win.
Pinches japos he had 3 hits on game 2 which was two day ago and the ball fell around the middle of the seating area. pinches mentirosos...and he's not Mr. Baseball idiotas....
Astros son chapuseros!
Juegan como pendejos. Los Odio!!!
Cheat or no cheat they will win and they play like the champs that they are. GO ASTROS!
STOP THE PLAYOFFS GIVE THEM THE TROPHY NOW!
Once a cheater
Always a cheater
Are they still cheating?
They always cheat its Houston remember..
Houston is the one in the picture show that shows him fighting 50 meskins on the stairs, when in reality he was hiding under the bed MAMONES!!
WHAT! they play a loosing team! JUST GIVE THEM THE TROPHY STOP THE PLAYOFFS!!!!
Who wants to see a bunch of millionaires jumping up and down in the middle of a baseball field? Where you pay $20.00 for a tallboy, $10.00 for a dollar hot dog, $5.00 for a penny candy and $50.00 for a program booklet that tell you the names of all the millionaires that play there. PENDEJO!!!
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