We got excited, and that’s what you do when you hit home runs - but it’s a long game. Hopefully, we can do it the next couple of days.”ĭuvall’s slam sent a dozen Braves careening from the dugout, a full-out frenzy of hollering, twirling and dancing. “I’d have loved to have done it in front of our fans. “If we win the World Series, it doesn’t matter where it is,” Snitker said.
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That left Correa at 2 for 14 overall in the series and Bregman worse at 1 for 14.Ītlanta had been 7-0 at home in the postseason, and a boisterous crowd inside Truist Park and packed plaza outside came early hoping to celebrate its first championship since 1995.
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His RBI single in the eighth padded the lead and as Jose Altuve got congrats in the dugout after scoring, the Fox TV mics picked up someone on the bench yelling “It’s time!”Ī night earlier, the Astros went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position in a 3-2 loss. The star shortstop doubled and singled twice, driving in two runs. But before the game we talked and we said, `We’re not gonna give up,’” Correa said.Ĭorrea gained attention earlier this postseason for marking big hits by pointing at his wrist, where a watch might be. Martín Maldonado found three different ways to drive in runs and pinch-hitter Marwin Gonzalez blooped a two-out, two-run single in the fifth for a 7-5 lead.Ī matchup of bullpens turned into the first high-scoring game of this Fall Classic, and the highest-scoring team in the majors this year won it.Ĭouldn’t hold down the Astros forever, a parade of Braves pitchers found out as the clock passed midnight and the calendar flipped to November. That was our goal today,” Astros skipper Dusty Baker said.Ĭorrea came through with three hits after getting moved up to third in the lineup for Game 5 while Bregman was dropped to seventh. “I’m just glad we get to go back to Houston.
But by any measure in the Analytics Age, this had to sting. The Braves might not admit it was a deflating defeat 66-year-old manager Brian Snitker is too steady and savvy for that. They kept swinging, too, refusing to let their season slip away and rallying past the Atlanta Braves 9-5 early Monday to cut their Series deficit to 3-2. Staggered by Adam Duvall’s grand slam in the first inning, Correa and Alex Bregman ended their slumps in a hurry. ATLANTA (AP) - Just in time, Carlos Correa and the Houston Astros broke out the bats.īecause if they had waited any longer, this World Series would’ve been over.