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Old 01-26-2020, 04:55 AM   #301
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NLCS Game 2 -- St. Louis 8, Chicago 3

St. Louis put up back-to-back three spots in the seventh and eighth innings to wipe out a 1-0 deficit and defeat Chicago 8-3 in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series at Wrigley Field (1979).
The victory gives the River Walkers a 2-0 lead with the series heading back to St. Louis for Games 3 and 4.
The G-Men's Cruz Calderon led off the bottom of the fourth with a single off Walkers starter Argenis Batista.
A Jarred Kelenic double moved him to third and Gleyber Torres scored him with a ground out to make it 1-0.
That's where it stood going into bottom of the seventh.
Jared Thomas opened things with a single off Chicago starter Jake Mullholland but was eliminated when Tanner Kohlhepp hit into a fielder's choice.
That's when G-Men manager Kichibel Suitani decided to go to his bullpen,
First, he went to his closer James Pazos who walked the only batter he would face, Larry Ernesto.
Taylor Rogers took over and Andrew Benintendi came through with a single to score a run.
The next batter, Jean Carmona, duplicated that with another single to put the Walkers up 2-1.
Pinch-hitter Johan Camargo followed with a double, and all of a sudden St. Louis led 3-1.
It was one big swing which did most of the damage in the eighth, Ernesto blasting a three-run homer off Tony Cebero.
St. Louis continued to pile it on in the ninth with two more runs.
Both runs scored with two outs.
Taylor Kohlhepp chased home the first with a double off Jake Junis.
Benintendi did the second with a single.
Down 8-1, Chicago did score twice in the ninth when Kelenic hit a two-run homer off Willams Jerez but it didn't really matter.
Batista earned the win allowing one run on five hits in 6.1 innings. He struck out eight and walked none.
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