A brutal loss...
The Rays had the World Series title within their grasp, up 3-0 after 6 innings behind a great
Pablo Lopez start. Unfortunately Lopez wore himself out throwing 98 pitches and we had to turn to the pen and that's where things went so badly wrong.
JT Ginn was first up in the 7th and he gave up a 3-run homer to Harrison Bader to let Chicago tie. No problem though as
Dominic Scavone belted a homer to restore the Rays' lead at 4-3 in the bottom of the inning.
Matt Cronin, who got Ginn out of the 7th, whiffed Yordan Alvarez to start the 8th and with righty slugger Spencer Torkelson due, we went to our closer
Yasunari Uehara. Not only did he immediately give up a homer to Torkelson allowing the Cubs to equalize he then put a man on and gave up
another homer, and that was too much to recover from as the Cubs have now forced a Game 7. So now it's up to
Joe Ryan, who's turned in 3 poor starts out of 4 this postseason, to pitch Game 7. Of course that's where we were in the ALCS and Ryan came through with his lone quality start so we'll just have to see.