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10/8/2020 3:37 PM ET (195 DAYS AGO) |
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GAME PREVIEW
A's again look to extend ALDS against AstrosLOS ANGELES -- The Oakland Athletics had to red-line the engine a bit to earn another game in the American League Division Series against the Houston Astros, but they won't be in complete survival mode in Game 4 on Thursday at Dodger Stadium.Closer Liam Hendriks went three shutout innings to finish a wild 9-7 victory in Game 3 on Wednesday, and his status for Thursday is questionable. He threw 37 pitches, gave up one hit and no walks, struck out four and picked up the win.However, the A's are confident with right-hander Frankie Montas on the mound to open Game 4. As with Wednesday's back-and-forth affair, Montas' season has delivered its highs and lows. He was 2-1 with a 1.57 ERA over his first four starts but then he experienced upper back tightness, causing him to miss nine days.After Montas returned, he was 1-4 with a 10.88 ERA over his next six outings. He is finally starting to look more as he did in the early season, not giving up an earned run in six innings of his final regular-season start while fanning 12. Montas then went two innings in relief and got the victory in the deciding Game 3 of the wild-card round against his former club, the Chicago White Sox."The stuff's always there, and he had a little bit of a rough patch ... but at the start he was fantastic," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. "He was our Opening Day guy and deserved to be. He had to go through (health issues) and fight through that ... and then found it at the end, so we have a lot of confidence in him." The Astros had not named a starter for Game 4, but manager Dusty Baker seemed to be leaning toward a bullpen game.It would appear to be as good a plan as any after his relievers went seven scoreless innings in the first two games, only to give up five runs in Game 3. Right-hander Josh James allowed three runs in one inning Wednesday before lefty Brooks Raley gave up two in two innings to take the loss.The Astros are without Zack Greinke, who was placed on the ALDS roster but was scratched for Game 3 due to right arm soreness. He is not expected to pitch in the series."We're a little thin," Baker said of his pitching staff moving forward. "Whoever starts tomorrow, we need some innings out of him, as many innings as possible to limit our bullpen action. We keep scoring the way we are, we're in pretty good shape." Scoring has been the theme of the series. The teams combined for seven home runs in Game 3, with the A's hitting five of them. In the three games, all in the sunshine at Dodger Stadium, the A's and Astros have hit 18 home runs. Thursday is another day game.The record for home runs in an ALDS is 22 by the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners in 1995.Chad Pinder hit a game-tying, three-run home run for the A's in the seventh inning Wednesday. It was the only one of the team's five homers that wasn't a solo shot.Pinder said he was inspired after a teammate Ramon Laureano implored the team to keep pushing after the Astros took the lead with a five-run fifth inning."You can kind of feel when we got into the dugout, energy was down again and we were getting that same flat-line feeling," Pinder said. "Ramon was having absolutely no part of that. I won't go into too much depth with what he said, but it was along the lines of, 'This ain't over. This is not our last game.'"--By Doug Padilla, Field Level Media
Game Preview from The Associated Press (AP).
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GAME RECAP
Correa powers Astros past A's 11-6 to clinch ALDSLOS ANGELES Carlos Correa hit a go-ahead, three-run homer after Michael Brantley's two-run shot in the fourth inning, helping the Houston Astros beat the Oakland Athletics 11-6 on Thursday to clinch their home-run heavy AL Division Series in four games.Correa drove in five as the Astros - October villains to many a year after their sign-stealing scandal was exposed - advanced to the AL Championship Series for the fourth consecutive season.It will be their first ALCS under Dusty Baker, their 71-year-old manager. Baker earned his first closeout win since the 2003 NL Division Series and improved to 4-13 in closeouts.''It's been a long, tough road, but we're halfway there,'' Baker said. ''I'm thankful and happy, but I still got some happiness left to give.'' Houston will play either the New York Yankees or Tampa Bay Rays in the best-of-seven ALCS in San Diego. The Rays lead their ALDS 2-1.The Astros and A's combined for 24 homers - 12 each - the most in a postseason series of five games or fewer.Houston clinched at Dodger Stadium, where it won the 2017 World Series in seven games. The Astros' sign-stealing scheme used during their title run was revealed last year by former teammate and current A's pitcher Mike Fiers, who didn't pitch in this series.The scandal led to season-long suspensions of Houston general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager AJ Hinch, who both were fired. Boston manager Alex Cora and Mets manager Carlos Beltran also lost their jobs as fallout their roles with the '17 Astros, and Houston still draws ire of other players and fans.Correa said outside opinions did nothing to motivate the team.''We're motivated because we want to win and we want to bring another championship to the city of Houston,'' he said. ''We know what it feels like and we want to have that feeling again.'' Houston's star-loaded lineup did little during the regular season to quiet criticism that the club could only hit when it was stealing signs. The Astros ranked 20th in the majors with a .240 average and 14th with 279 runs.The slump continued through the wild-card round before Houston turned Dodger Stadium into a launching pad against Oakland. The team batted .322 in the ALDS, with Correa, Jose Altuve, Alex Bregman and Kyle Tucker each batting over .400, and George Springer at .389.''We never gave up because we had a down year offensively,'' Correa said. ''We kept going to the cage. That helped us in this series.'' Much of that damage came against Oakland's vaunted bullpen. A's relievers combined for a 6.27 ERA in the series, including six earned runs Thursday.Facing elimination for the fourth time this postseason, Oakland's Ramon Laureano hit a pair of homers, including a three-run shot in the second that gave the West champion A's the early lead for the fourth straight game.Houston starter Zack Greinke held up two fingers facing Laureano and catcher Martin Maldonado before Laureano homered 440 feet to left for a 3-0 lead. It might have appeared that Greinke was signaling his pitch, although he has at times used a hand signal to switch sign sets mid-inning.''I just switched the pitch so I don't waste time shaking off,'' Greinke said. ''Just a way to save some time.'' It was the first postseason homer Greinke allowed since last year's Game 7 of the World Series against Washington, when Anthony Rendon's solo shot began the Nationals' comeback.Laureano's leadoff homer in the fifth cut Oakland's deficit to 5-4, but the A's would get no closer.Frankie Montas couldn't withstand Houston's onslaught in the fourth, when the Astros sent 10 batters to the plate and scored five. Altuve led off with a walk and scored on Brantley's homer to pull the Astros to 3-2. Bregman and Tucker had back-to-back singles and scored on Correa's shot to left that he stood and admired, giving Houston the lead for good, 5-3.Brantley added a solo shot in the fifth and Altuve had a two-run blast in the seventh that extended the Astros' lead to 11-4.Houston's Cristian Javier got the victory in relief. He retired five in a row before giving up back-to-back, two-out singles to Robbie Grossman and Sean Murphy in the seventh. Marcus Semien - a free agent-to-be playing perhaps his final game with Oakland - flied out to left and Tucker backed up to the wall to make the catch for the third out.No A's starter pitched beyond the fifth in the series. Loser Montas gave up five runs and seven hits in 3 2/3 innings. He struck out three and walked one.''We just couldn't do enough on the pitching end to hold them down,'' A's manager Bob Melvin said. ''And then you start to press a little bit even though our guys had a good attitude every inning even going into the ninth inning and get some guys on. We battled until the end as you would expect, just not enough.'' Greinke, who had experienced arm soreness that kept him from starting Game 3, allowed four runs and five hits in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out four and walked one.TRAINER'S ROOMAthletics: Melvin said he developed a foot issue during batting practice and didn't make the pitching changes because ''I didn't want to limp out there and limp back and take a bunch of time.'' GREAT CATCHWith Oakland trailing 3-0, Josh Reddick robbed Matt Olson with a spectacular catch in right. Reddick reached over the low wall to snag the ball and fell on his backside, holding up his glove. The Astros bullpen had a front-row seat to the catch and cheered; Greinke let out a visible sigh of relief on the mound.BACK TO THE ALCSThe Astros became the third team in AL history since 1969 to reach four straight AL Championship Series. The Yankees did so from 1998-2001 and the A's went to the ALCS five times from 1971-75.GOING LONGBrantley, Springer and Correa all have multi-homer games this postseason, making Houston the first team since the 2003 Chicago Cubs - managed by Baker - to have three different players register multi-homer games in the same postseason.DAY-OThe A's played their 10th straight day game dating to a doubleheader on Sept. 26. The last time they played over nine consecutive day games was April 23-May 8, 1949, when they had 16 in a row, according to Elias Sports Bureau.All four games in the neutral-site series were played during the day. After the first three games in the 90s and 80s, the temperature cooled to 75 degrees for Game 4.UP NEXTAthletics: Host the Milwaukee Brewers in their spring training opener on Feb. 27.Astros: Travel to San Diego for the AL Championship Series.---More MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/-Sports
Game Recap from The Associated Press (AP).
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MLB Game Preview: Oakland Athletics vs. Houston Astros - Date: 10/8/2020 A's again look to extend ALDS against AstrosLOS ANGELES -- The Oakland Athletics had to red-line the engine a bit to earn another game in the American League Division Series against the Houston Astros, but they won't be in complete survival mode in Game 4 on Thursday at Dodger Stadium.Closer Liam Hendriks went three shutout innings to finish a wild 9-7 victory in Game 3 on Wednesday, and his status for Thursday is questionable. He threw 37 pitches, gave up one hit and no walks, struck out four and picked up the win.However, the A's are confident with right-hander Frankie Montas on the mound to open Game 4. As with Wednesday's back-and-forth affair, Montas' season has delivered its highs and lows. He was 2-1 with a 1.57 ERA over his first four starts but then he experienced upper back tightness, causing him to miss nine days.After Montas returned, he was 1-4 with a 10.88 ERA over his next six outings. He is finally starting to look more as he did in the early season, not giving up an earned run in six innings of his final regular-season start while fanning 12. Montas then went two innings in relief and got the victory in the deciding Game 3 of the wild-card round against his former club, the Chicago White Sox."The stuff's always there, and he had a little bit of a rough patch ... but at the start he was fantastic," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. "He was our Opening Day guy and deserved to be. He had to go through (health issues) and fight through that ... and then found it at the end, so we have a lot of confidence in him." The Astros had not named a starter for Game 4, but manager Dusty Baker seemed to be leaning toward a bullpen game.It would appear to be as good a plan as any after his relievers went seven scoreless innings in the first two games, only to give up five runs in Game 3. Right-hander Josh James allowed three runs in one inning Wednesday before lefty Brooks Raley gave up two in two innings to take the loss.The Astros are without Zack Greinke, who was placed on the ALDS roster but was scratched for Game 3 due to right arm soreness. He is not expected to pitch in the series."We're a little thin," Baker said of his pitching staff moving forward. "Whoever starts tomorrow, we need some innings out of him, as many innings as possible to limit our bullpen action. We keep scoring the way we are, we're in pretty good shape." Scoring has been the theme of the series. Baseball Handicappers. The teams combined for seven home runs in Game 3, with the A's hitting five of them. In the three games, all in the sunshine at Dodger Stadium, the A's and Astros have hit 18 home runs. Fighting Predictions. Thursday is another day game.The record for home runs in an ALDS is 22 by the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners in 1995.Chad Pinder hit a game-tying, three-run home run for the A's in the seventh inning Wednesday. It was the only one of the team's five homers that wasn't a solo shot.Pinder said he was inspired after a teammate Ramon Laureano implored the team to keep pushing after the Astros took the lead with a five-run fifth inning."You can kind of feel when we got into the dugout, energy was down again and we were getting that same flat-line feeling," Pinder said. "Ramon was having absolutely no part of that. I won't go into too much depth with what he said, but it was along the lines of, 'This ain't over. Sports Betting Profit. This is not our last game.'"--By Doug Padilla, Field Level Media
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