One win away...
The Rays took a commanding 3-1 series lead with an 11-5 win over the Angels which saw Austin Meadows have a career game, 4-5 with 2 HR and 5 RBI, making him the clubhouse leader for ALCS MVP. Despite the lopsided score, there were a couple of moments when the game hung in the balance, and the biggest came in the top of the 5th when Chris Sale put 2 men on with 2 out for the dangerous Jo Adell with the Rays nursing a 4-2 lead, and Matt Peacock came in and got him on a lazy fly to center. A 1-2-3 inning for Peacock later, and the Rays broke it open with a 6-run 6th, which saw them bang out 4 run-scoring hits with 2 out around a walk. Peacock got into trouble in the 8th after a Brandon Lowe error opened the door for the Angels to load the bases with the score 10-5, but Pete Fairbanks bounced back from his bad outing the other day to get another inning-ending fly ball. Tyler Glasnow will try to replicate his Game 1 performance and close things out tomorrow.