Royals rally on Correa’s error, beat Astros 9-6 to even ALDS

Johnny Cueto also boarded the bus.

“McHugh is going to start Game 5, so he’ll be ready to go”, Astros manager A.J. Hinch said. “But it’s big-boy sport”. The governor was all too eager to call the game before it ended, and he tweeted out a congratulations to the Astros while the game was still ongoing.

As The Houston Chronicle noted, the potentially-jinxing tweet came from the Twitter account run by the governor’s office.

“We hit one out of the park or we get a double and we are right back in the game”.

“The thing about this club is that they don’t quit”, Yost said during a post-game news conference. Kendrys Morales, a former Mariner, followed with a hard, one-bouncer off Sipp’s glove. The ball took two more hops and got past the top of Correas mitt, rolling into center field as two runs scored to tie it at 6. “I’m sure it was tougher than it looked”.

If you didn’t skip work and watch this game, you missed a great one.

While Gordon pushed the Royals in front with his RBI groundout off Astros closer Luke Gregerson, he merely put the bow on a breathtaking display of plate discipline. By the two-run homer off Josh Fields in the ninth, the Royals had sealed the win and prepared for a trip home for a decisive game five.

For the Royals, the world’sin drew up memories of the milestone victory Kansas City had in the 2014 Wild Card Game against the A’s in Oakland. But the defending AL champion Royals had other ideas.

I, personally, dropped my own ridiculous tweet when I said this game was worse than when Albert Pujols hit a bomb off the Astros in the ninth inning of the 2005 NLCS to force a final series game. “I just felt that the bats were going to come alive, and they really did in the eighth inning”.

After losing the first two games in the series at home, the Blue Jays won twice in Texas in a span of 24 hours. Davis, who was brought in for a two inning save, closed the deal to send the Royals home for a deciding Game 5.

Colby Rasmus homered for Houston, his fourth in five playoff games this October. They were on their way there thanks to a hero-making turn from Carlos Correa, who hit his second homer of the day in the bottom of the seventh.

Correa went 4 for 4 and was hit by a pitch. In the seventh he went yard again, this time with a two-run jack that stretched the lead to 5-2.

The six homers – by six different players – set a major league postseason record.

As for the Royals offense, they were the first to crack the scoreboard in this one in the second inning behind a Salvador Perez two run home run. Also lost in the bullpen debacle is the job Astros starter Lance McCullers did in going 6 1/3 innings while giving up only two runs. Cain slid across the warning track on his stomach and punched the wall in frustration when he got back to his feet.