World Series Game 5:November 2nd, 2022
Texas Rangers -
Milwaukee Brewers @ Miller Park
TEX: SP
Cory Taylor(R, 4-0 2.52)
MIL: SP
Freddy Peralta(R, 1-2 2.42)
On Wednesday morning, there was no news on
Patrick Bailey's knee or whatever is bothering him, so
Danny Jansen will start the game behind the plate, catching hopefully a lot of strikes by
Cory in a game one rematch...
Similar to the first two games in Milwaukee,
Hansel Moreno reached base in the first... and it could've been two on, nobody out if
Royce Lewis would not have been caught speeding on the basepaths... in like, caught stealing... and we did not manage to score this time... signs of impending doom?
Both starters allowed contact early on and got some traffic on the basepath, and blood pressure rose a lot when
Taylor yielded to straight singles to start the third.
A popup and a sac bunt put both into scoring position for Mr.
Gonzalez... and for the first time this series... a grounder to
Joey Gallo was properly caught by him AND actually turned into an out at first base without three errors and a lot of tears...
Tension continued to rise as both starters got through four innings apiece, allowing three hits apiece and surviving them bruised, but without runs scored... waiting for the first guy to blink... and it was ours. The first number other than zero on the board was a shy '1', counting for a
Cory Ray solo home run in the bottom of the sixth... and we were in big trouble now.
How do you respond to that? Right, by stranding a runner at third base for the third time today...
Peralta for them, and
Jake J. Thompson combined for a scoreless seventh, and with a one-run lead, Zapata asked his closer, my personal nightmare,
Felipe Vazquez to pitch a six-out save if possible.
He blew it after one. After sucking big balls all game long, our offense came through with a lucky infield hit by slow-footed catcher
Danny Jansen... and a big, hulking double down the left field line by our superstar shortstop
Royce Lewis... ALL HAIL
ROYCE LEWIS!
Now that we finally learned to swim in this game... it was time to fly. And the Brewers helped us out tremendously to turn this game around.
Vazquez intentionally walked
Moreno to set up the double play... and we made it a double steal... on which
Jorge Alfaro, normally a VERY GOOD defensive catcher... threw it PAST
STOTT AT THIRD...
LEWIS AROUND THIRD AND HE SCORES!!! TEX 2, MIL 1 and
Moreno waiting at third!
The inning sizzled out, but we had a fragile one-run lead for the blowup parade that is our bullpen waiting... but it was their outstretched bullpen that yielded another run when
Gallo and
Jansen reached in the top of the ninth and
Justin Williams, eager to get back into the fold, collected a sac fly to make it 3-1 TEX...
Edwin Diaz time!... After blowing up for 2ER yesterday, he started off the ninth with a
Carlos David Rodrigues... struck out
Alfaro... walked
Plummer... and then K'ed the leadoff man to get to
Bryson Stott with two down...
Batting .250 in the postseason... he flew out on the first pitch...
BACK TO TEXAS WITH A 3-2 SERIES LEAD!
SP
Dallas Keuchel 6IP 5H 1ER 3BB 3K
SS
Royce Lewis 2-5 R RBI SB(3)
2B
Hansel Moreno 1-3 BB DB SB(3)
1B
Bobby Bradley 1-4
LF
Nelson Velazquez 0-3 BB SB(1)
3B
Joey Gallo 2-4 R 2DB
C
Danny Jansen 2-4 R
HR TEX: none
HR MIL:
Corey Ray(6)
W:
Jake J. Thompson(1-0 2.32) L:
Felipe Vazquez(0-2 7.71) SV:
Edwin Diaz(3 4.50)
TEX 3 MIL 1 TEX leads World Series 3-2.
What. A. Series. We got a bit lucky there with that throwing error by
Alfaro and actually utilizing our speed on the basepaths has been an issue for us this postseason as all of our opponents had catchers with good arms... but it came up big today.