center field McCormick on the move, Chazz McCormick two
gone in the nine folks, one to right center
field. Brandon Marsh on the move to the warning
track at the wall and it's often Jose Altuve opposite
. He's not going to stop the second. He's
got a triple what a start for the Astros pena
up the middle and through and the Astros on the
board just like that turns out punch counterpunch again it
away. That's where he put it and got a
swing and a miss Verlander's out of the bases loaded
jam instead of fly ball to left center, Schwarber
back onto the track. Done it again. He's
given the Astros a 21 lead in Game five after
22 home runs during the regular season, His fourth
of the postseason. That's the fourth straight strikeout for
Justin Verlander to weigh in the fifth does the job
. Brown first, that's a fair ball, knocks
it down and his only play is to tag Alvarez
l tube into score and it's 31. It's a
three game in the eighth Ryan Pressly one tough customer
trying to do something. He's not done all year
and that is five hours to pitch. Got him
swinging Ryan Pressly for out. Number two off the
bench for Gourriel and Trey Mancini keeps the Astros in
front of the third. One time it sends back
onto the warning track leaps at the wall and he
makes the catch. What a catch by McCormick crashing
into the 13 ft high wall and deep right center
failed to out the catch of his life for McCormick
. Game five in a thriller, three to the
final score and 32 is the series as it goes
back to Houston. I mean the intensity was there
you know from the jump you know they have a
great ball club, they battled all game and we
did the same you know and uh we knew it
wasn't gonna be easy and we're just glad we came
out on top tonight, it feels amazing. It
wasn't, it wasn't as easy as I would like
but man a win's a win. They obviously were
trying to get on top of the heater after yesterday
and so I was able to make some adjustments and
finally find my off speed stuff. I mean it's
really been evading me for a little while and especially
the slider was able to kind of click it and
find my tipo and execute it and that was the
difference maker, put ourselves in a good position there
, catch by McCormick out there in center field was
really nice play and made a nice play too.
So it's not over there was uh still got another
game to be played so we got a day to
flush out away and uh You gotta be able to
come out ready to go for game six for more
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