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Coming into their American League Division Series with the Kansas City Royals, the Houston Astros bullpen was viewed as the club’s biggest weakness.

“We have lost like this before, but it’s been in May or June and not on this stage”, right fielder George Springer said. And when it’s applied to the Royals, well, things tend to get real weird. Improbability is just a 13-letter word to the Royals and impossibility doesn’t exist. A decade’s worth of frustrations fueled the energy of a rabid crowd that burst into deafening noise in the seventh when Correa belted a two-run shot that increased Houston’s lead to 5-2.

The Astros will counter with Collin McHugh, who threw a gem in winning the series opener.

Nearly out of time and out of the playoffs, the Kansas City Royals realized they needed more than a big home run. “We’re in Game 5 of the division series with a chance to control our own destiny”.

“At the beginning, he didn’t feel as strong”, said Royals catching coach Pedro Grifol, who translated for Cueto after the game.

A lead-off single in the eighth inning turned into five straight hits. After Gomez, it was the Carlos Correa show for the Astros. A baseball that had so much English on it, it traveled across the Atlantic and back to Europe.

Before his error to allow the tying run to score, Correa was the hero of the game for Astros, hitting two homers to help build the Houston lead.

The eighth inning scoffed at the weight of the seventh. That allowed Alex Gordon to drive in the go-ahead run with a ground ball to second. The bases had just reloaded and Alex Gordon was at the plate, swinging through the first pitch he saw.

The Royals and their fans have been reminded that anything is possible with this team. Because it’s chaos and no matter what happens you’ve been sucked in. The Royals sent 11 men to the plate in the eighth inning against Will Harris, Sipp and closer Luke Gregerson on the way to turning a 6-2 deficit into a 7-6 lead. They might not be going to the ALCS after all. The Royals won 9-6.

After shutting down the Yankees in the wild card game at Yankee Stadium for six innings last week-on just three days rest-the lefty followed that up by miraculously navigating his way through seven turbulent innings Sunday against the Royals for the win.

Alcides Escobar, with the chance to bust the game wide open with the bases packed, strikes out looking on the sixth pitch of the at-bat.

Royals’ manager Ned Yost didn’t see any doubt in the eyes of his players’ in the dugout after what could have been a demoralizing blow. It might have been a hair high.

The Astro’s six-two lead heading into the top of the 8th inning had a lot of people making predictions. From Lorenzo Cain. From Eric Hosmer.

The Royals traded away three top prospects to acquire Johnny Cueto for the playoffs, even though his winning pedigree has been established nearly entirely in the regular season.