Astros vs Braves Game 5: Houston keeps World Series alive after beating Atlanta 9-5
The Braves, who nonetheless lead the collection 3-2, would have clinched the title with victory in entrance of their dwelling followers however confronted a revamped Astros batting order that regarded decided to increase its season.
Houston veteran supervisor Dusty Baker’s resolution to change issues up was vindicated after shortstop Carlos Correa, bumped as much as third within the batting order, got here by means of with three hits and a pair of RBIs.
In the meantime, first baseman Yuli Gurriel, who moved as much as fifth after hitting seventh in Sport 4, had three hits of his personal and scored two runs. In complete, the Astros tallied a dozen hits.
“We do not fear about what different individuals say or what they assume. It is what you consider your self and what you consider one another on the crew that actually counts,” Baker mentioned after the match, when requested about those that had counted them out of the collection already.
“These guys are collectively, they have been by means of many of those battles and so they do not know the best way to give up and they’re at all times searching for an edge or a gap.
“Luckily, tonight we took benefit of some.”
The Braves, in search of their first championship since 1995, opened the scoring in explosive vogue with Adam Duvall hitting a grand slam within the first inning.
However the Astros quietly chipped away, in the end drawing even at 4-4 after a Gurriel groundout within the prime of the third.
Veteran first baseman Freddie Freeman then put the Braves again in entrance, launching a large 460-foot home-run into the seats.
Freeman’s blast marked the longest dwelling run by any participant within the 2021 postseason, but it surely additionally represented the host’s remaining scoring play of the night.
Houston, nevertheless, had been removed from accomplished and scored thrice within the prime of the fifth, with pinch-hitter Marwin Gonzalez’s two-out, two-run single giving the Astros their first lead of the sport.
The Astros then added an insurance coverage run within the seventh with catcher Martin Maldonado’s third RBI of the evening, and yet one more within the eighth with Correa’s single which plated second baseman Jose Altuve.
The loss marks the Braves’ first defeat at dwelling this postseason, and if Atlanta is to win the World Collection, they will be compelled to take action in enemy territory.
Each Sport 6 on Tuesday, and if mandatory, Sport 7 will probably be held in Houston.
“You at all times like to do it right here. I will take it wherever,” Braves supervisor Brian Snitker mentioned on lacking the possibility to clinch the collection in entrance of dwelling followers.
“I do not care the place we’re at. If we win the World Collection, it does not matter the place it’s. I would have cherished to have accomplished it in entrance of our followers.
“Hopefully, we will do it the following couple of days.”
With the most recent win, the Astros will probably be hoping to lean on their dwelling crowd to grow to be simply the fifteenth crew in MLB historical past to rally from a 3-1 deficit and win a best-of-seven postseason collection.
