All even heading north...
Someone finally beat Baltimore! The Rays snapped the Orioles' 15-game win streak which started with them winning their final 9 regular season games to grab WC3 and extended to 2-0 and 3-0 sweeps in the first two rounds of the playoffs and their win in yesterday's ALCS Game 1. And it came courtesy of a trio of former Orioles as
Heston Kjerstad, inserted at DH for the slumping
Ryan Cermak, was 3-5 with a homer,
Jordan Westburg delivered a key 2-run double after Baltimore kept answering Tampa Bay scores, and
Felix Bautista closed out the game with a 5-out save on only 17 pitches. Meanwhile the Rays had their way with a former pitcher of theirs as they hit Shane Baz for 5 runs in only 3 2/3 innings. So we're all square heading to Charm City with
Ni Guan getting the ball for Game 3.
Meanwhile the NLCS got underway:
