Major League Baseball’s four-four-division division series is in action on Tuesday with a pair of two NLDS Game 1 and ALDS Game 2. The Braves started the afternoon with a Game 1 win over the Marlins by the Astros before a second win over the Astros Athletics. The Rays tied their ALDS matchup with the Yankees by home four times and competed 18 times in Game 2 wins. Pedres is facing the Dodgers in Tuesday nightcap.
Here’s a look at the games of the day and what everyone should know about them.
MLB playoff scores
Final: Braves 9, Marlins 5 – Brave ahead 1-0
Final: Astros 5, A2 – Astros lead 2-0
Alive: Rays 7, Yankees 5 – Series Tied 1-1
Live: Pedres vs. Dodgers (FS1) – The series ended in a 0-0 draw
Yankees opener strategy backfire
The Yankees chose to go with rookie right-hander goddess Garcia as their starter game 2, but it turned out that manager Aaron Boone was using Garcia as the game’s opener. The 21-year-old threw just one inning (and Randy Arozerena allowed a solo homer) before entering the South. A two-run homer from Mike Zunino and Manuel Margot allowed Hep to score four more runs and put the Yankees in the 5-1 hole. Boone’s pitching plan backfired. The Rays added two more runs after Hep’s departure, and the Yankees never dug themselves into a 7-5 defeat. Tampa tied the ALDS 1-1 with a win.
However, Giancarlo Stanton made things interesting with a powerful swing of a powerful ton. Stant knocked the club to a 45-foot three-run home run of Tyler Glassno to bring the club within one run in the fourth inning. Stanton, who sat at home twice on Tuesday, joined Lou Gerrig and Reggie Jackson as the only Yankee for Homer in four consecutive postseason games. Read more about the victory of the rays here.
Valdez, Springer led the Astros 2-0
Left-hander Friend Valdez was the Astros’ mainstay in the regular season, and it’s clear he’s been in the playoffs. Giving a big respite in the wild card series, Valdez started his first postseason against Athletics on Tuesday. He prepared to give the Astros a 2-0 advantage in the best-of-five series.
Valdez hit four batters and hit five of his four hits, a walk and a two-run work of seven innings. He threw 103 pitches in the afternoon, and made six swings and misses on his curb ball. Its fastball ball l, averaged, averaged about m. Miles.
While Valdez may have boosted the Astros’ efforts, they also got a big game from outfielder George Springer, who made two home runs and three runs. Springer has now scored five career postseason home runs at De Career Stadium, which puts him behind Reggie Jackson for the longest time. According to ESPN statistics and information. Neither Springer nor Jackson played for LA
Catcher Martin Maldonado also ran the house. The Astros could complete the series sweep on Wednesday afternoon.
Brave power up, pull away after the outburst of anger
The Marlins and Braves started the day’s action with a back-and-forth contest featuring some elevated tampers after Ronald Aquina Jr., who hit a leadoff homer at the bottom of the first, struck by Sandy Alcantara pitch in the third. . Akuna Alcantara’s erroneous offer appeared to be the exception, and both parties rallied before he could support it. (He later scored from the first.)
While Alcantara had no reason to hit Aquina on purpose, it is worth noting that both sides have a history. Aquina has hit 19 pitches in his career; Four of them have been thrown by a Marlins pitcher. No other team has beaten Akuna more than twice.
Brave manager Brian Snyter was interviewed during the game during the FS1 broadcast. When asked about the hit-by-pitch, he said: “I’d probably get in trouble if I told you exactly what I thought.” Clearly, then, Brave believes the Marlins were deliberately throwing at Aquina.
Going forward, Scrappy Marlins gave a three-run lead to the third. The Braves got two backs in the bottom, but the lead was Marlins seventh -3–3. It felt like a big deal at the time as the Marlins were 28-0 in the regular season as they headed into the seventh inning.
Then again, Brave had a 13-to-back win this season and has some seriously offensive firepower. They showed it in the seventh. Better-to-back singles started things to chase starter Sandy Alcantara. It could be argued that the bullpen should have been occupied and certain Alcantara gave Ronald Aquina only one, while watching him for the fourth time, was given an alternate option in a one-run game.
Marlins then fired right-hander Yimi Garcia to confront Freddie Freeman, who had been wreaking havoc for centuries. It worked really fast, for another. In the selection of freeman fielder. But then Marcel Ozuna sang along with him and then Travis de Arnaud opened the scoring with a three-run shot:
It is worth noting that Garcia had major problems dropping long balls in previous years (32 hrs were allowed in 159 2/3 innings before this season), but he has gone through 15 regular-season innings and two more innings so far. Postseason without allowing a homer. This mighty brave crime was probably the only thing against that time.
Over the years, the likes of Aquina, Freeman, Ozuna and even Densby Swanson and Adam Dove of Lane have flown under D’Arnad’s huge season radar on the plate. He hit .321 / .386 / .533 in 44 regular-season games with eight doubles, nine homers and 34 RBIs.
After the seventh, Swanson added a two-run shot and suddenly all the Braves didn’t even sweat from the late innings. Here was the seventh difference of six runs, and the Braves won 1-0 out of five.
Something to watch out for if the series goes a long way: Max Friday just threw 70 pitches for the Brave and since there have been no days off this year, Game 5 could now return to the No. 1 short break. Guess Fried can handle that. For the Marlins, Alcantara went on 95 pitches. It’s not a ton and it might be okay to come back, but it will compromise more with both.
