Before Game 2 of the ALCS in Houston, we got the rare opportunity to ride the iconic train that runs above left field at Minute Maid Park. Well, there's a pretty iconic train that runs beyond right field at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. It's called the 4.
If there is an ALCS Game 6, Luis Severino will start for the Yankees, according to manager Joe Girardi. Girardi lifted Severino after 4 innings in Game 2, believing Severino might have a shoulder issue. Severino said he was fine. Doctors have agreed with the Severino's assessment.
Vía Astros: Alineación para el segundo partido de la Serie de Campeonato de la Liga Americana en Yankee Stadium.
Vía Yankees PR: Alineación de Yankees contra Astros para el tercer partido de la Serie de Campeonato de la Liga Americana.
Goodnight from Dodger Stadium.
With the Dodgers up 2-0 in the NLCS, we now know that there will be at least one more game played at Dodger Stadium this fall. The question is, will the next game L.A. hosts be NLCS Game 6 or World Series Game 1?
Justin Turner on hitting a walk-off home run to give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead in the NLCS on the 29th anniversary of Kirk Gibson's home run.
Positioned just outside the Dodgers' clubhouse.
As a Southern California native, Justin Turner says he grew up pretending to hit Kirk Gibson's 1988 walk-off home run countless times. Tonight, Turner's own Gibson-esque moment played out at Dodger Stadium on the 29th anniversary of the famous home run.
Kenley Jansen is wearing a Justin Turner shirt and Justin Turner is wearing a Yasiel Puig shirt in the postgame press conference.
Kenley Jansen entered the postgame media session wearing a #VoteJT shirt and soon after, Justin Turner joined him sporting a shirt with Yasiel Puig's No. 66 on it.
Watch Joe Maddon discuss the ending of Sunday's game.
How good has the Dodgers bullpen been in the series? Well, Justin Turner just hit a walk-off home run in a postseason game, and the first question posed to Dave Roberts after the game was about his relievers.
Joe Maddon has stated several times during his postgame news conference that the Cubs' chances of coming back in this series hinge on if the offense can get going after a rough postseason -- outside of one game in Washington -- for Chicago's hitters.
Joe Maddon said Wade Davis was limited based on his 44 pitches thrown against the Nationals on Thursday so he was only going to go in if the Cubs got the lead. In another instance Maddon said he isn't opposed to using his closer in tonight's situation.
Joe Maddon says he didn't go to Wade Davis in the ninth inning because Davis was available for limited pitches and he was saving him for the save situation tonight.
I've never heard Dodger Stadium this loud for this long. Incredible.
Celebration time ...
Justin Turner finiquitó el triunfo de los Dodgers en el segundo de la Serie de Campeonato contra los Chicago Cubs. Cuadrangular con dos hombres en base con dos outs en la novena entrada para dejar tendidos a los Cubs y para mandar la Serie a Chicago 2-0 a favor de Los Ángeles.
Justin Turner, the underrated star of the Dodgers, delivers the biggest hit of his career and the biggest for the Dodgers franchise since Kirk Gibson's famous home run in 1988. His two-out, three-run home run to center field off John Lackey gives the Dodgers the dramatic walk-off victory, a mob scene at home plate, sends Dodger Stadium into a happy frenzy and puts the Dodgers into a commanding series lead.
The Vin Scully Press Box is winning.
Wow, that is now 0 for 21 for the Cubs against the Dodgers' bullpen so far in the series. Tonight, L.A.'s three relievers have needed just 26 pitches to get nine outs.
Two perfect innings for Dodgers righty Brandon Morrow and he needed just 18 pitches to get those six outs. The Cubs are now 0 for 18 against the L.A. bullpen so far in the NLCS.
Se va de la loma Jon Lester con cuatro entradas y dos tercios; fue incapaz de completar al quinta. Lester sólo permitió tres hits, pero regaló cinco bases por bolas y sale del juego iguales 1-1 Cubs y Dodgers. Deja de herencia corredores en primera y segunda, cuando el manager Joe Maddon decide traer a Carl Edwards Jr.
It's now a battle of the bullpens, and you know Joe Maddon didn't want to have to get 5.1 innings from his relievers. Small sample caveat, but in the postseason, the Dodgers pen has been terrific (1.72 ERA) and the Cubs pen less than stellar (6.97 ERA).
