Posted: 5:15 p.m. Sunday, October 29, 2017
HOUSTON —
HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on Game 5 of the World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros (all times local):
12:40 a.m.
Alex Bregman hit a game-ending single off Kenley Jansen with two outs in the 10th inning Monday morning, and the Houston Astros outslugged the Los Angeles Dodgers 13-12 to take a 3-2 World Series lead.
Silent early when ace Dallas Keuchel allowed Los Angeles to spurt ahead 4-0, the crowd erupted over and over as the Astros sent balls careening all around — and out of — pulsating Minute Maid Park.
Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa, Yuli Gurriel, George Springer and Brian McCann homered for Houston, which tied the score 4-4 against Clayton Kershaw, fell behind 7-4 on Cody Bellinger's three-run homer, then rallied again to lead 11-8 after seven innings and 12-9 after eight.
Yasiel Puig's two-run homer in the ninth off Chris Devenski was the record 22nd of the Series, and Chris Taylor tied the score with a two-out, two-strike RBI single.
Jensen hit McCann with a pitch with two outs, George Springer walked and Derek Fisher pinch ran for Bregman at second. Bregman won the 5-hour, 17-minute marathon with a liner into left field.
Joe Musgrove, Houston's seventh pitcher, threw a scoreless 10th for the win.
Game 6 is Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium, where Justin Verlander will try to clinch the Astros' first championship and Rich Hill hopes to save the Dodgers' season.
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12:18 a.m.
Yasiel Puig hit a two-run homer off Chris Devenski in the ninth inning and Chris Taylor tied the score with a two-out, two-strike RBI single, leaving the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros tied 12-12.
Yuli Gurriel hit a two-out double high off the left-field fence in the bottom half against Kenley Jansen, missing a winning homer by about 5 feet. Josh Reddick then popped out.
Puig's home run was the 22nd of the Series, topping the previous record set in the Anaheim Angels' seven-game win over San Francisco in 2002.
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11:43 p.m.
Brian McCann hit Houston's fifth home run in Game 5 of the World Series, a solo shot in the eighth that gave the Astros a 12-9 lead going into the ninth inning.
The five homers matched the most hit by a team in a World Series game.
With 21 homers combined, the Astros and Dodgers have matched the most in a World Series — and there is still at least one more game to play. The Los Angeles Angels and San Francisco Giants also had 21 homers during the 2002 World Series.
If the Astros hold on to the lead in the ninth, they will go to Los Angeles with a 3-2 series lead and only win shy of their first World Series title. Game 6 is Tuesday night.
Assuming no extra innings, Game 5 will also be the longest nine-inning World Series game ever. The previous record was 4 hours, 19 minutes by the Boston Red Sox and Colorado Rockies in Game 3 of the 2007 Series. The Astros and Dodgers were already past that after eight innings.
After the Dodgers got a run in the top of the eighth on Corey Seager's RBI double, Los Angeles had runners on second and third with two outs when Andre Ethier came on as pinch-hitter. Houston then brought in Chris Devenski.
Ethier had an inning-ending groundout when appearing in his 49th postseason game, matching former shortstop Bill Russell's franchise record.
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11:06 p.m.
George Springer and Carlos Correa homered in a four-run seventh inning to give the Houston Astros their first lead of the game over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
After Cody Bellinger's RBI triple gave the Dodgers the lead in the top of the inning, Springer evened it up in the bottom of the frame when he sent Brandon Morrow's first pitch onto the train tracks atop left field. Alex Bregman connected on his next pitch to center field for a single before he scored on a double by Jose Altuve to give Houston a 9-8 lead.
Morrow then threw a wild pitch to allow Altuve to advance to third before Correa's towering shot to the Crawford Boxes made it 11-8.
Play was briefly stopped after that as a shirtless fan in red and blue sparkly shorts ran onto the field for a few seconds before being tackled by security guards and taken away.
Tony Cingrani took over after that and retired the next three batters, with two strikeouts to end the inning.
In the top of the inning, Peacock allowed a leadoff double to Justin Turner on a ball which came within a few inches of being a home run. But he was erased on a fielder's choice when Peacock fielded a bunt by Enrique Hernandez and threw to Alex Bregman at third base.
Bellinger's triple came next to make it 8-7. George Springer came close to catching it in center field, but instead it bounced away from him and to the warning track to allow Hernandez to score.
Peacock struck out Logan Forsythe and retired Yasiel Puig to limit the damage.
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10:33 p.m.
After all the offense in the fifth inning, pitchers regained command in the sixth.
Collin McHugh threw a called third strike past Austin Barnes, then walked pinch-hitter Joc Pederson. Chris Taylor flied to right and Corey Seager took a called third strike — he started to slam his bat, then stopped himself.
Pederson went to left in the bottom half and Enrique Hernandez moved to second.
Kenta Maeda struck out Josh Reddick and walked Evan Gattis. Left-hander Tony Watson retired Marwin Gonzalez on a flyout, then retired Brian McCann on a grounder to short right field that was picked up by third baseman Logan Forsythe, who was shifted over.
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9:56 p.m.
Game 5 of the World Series is still tied after both teams got three-run homers in the fifth inning.
Astros second baseman Jose Altuve greeted Dodgers reliever Kenta Maeda with a two-out blast to tie the game 7-7 in the bottom of the fifth after Cody Bellinger's three-run blast for the Dodgers in the top half of the inning.
Maeda, who had just taken over for Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, hadn't given up a run in his previous nine innings over seven appearances this postseason before Altuve went deep to the chants of "M-V-P!, M-V-P!"
Kershaw had exited after issuing back-to-back two-out walks. The lefty allowed six runs and four hits with two strikeouts and three walks in 4 2-3 innings.
In winning Game 1, Kershaw struck out 11 with no walks while giving up three hits and only one run over seven innings.
Bellinger had gone hitless in his first 13 at-bats in the World Series before two doubles in Game 4 on Saturday night. The first double drove home the tying run and the other put the Dodgers ahead in the ninth inning of a 6-2 win that evened the series at two games each.
Bellinger struck out in his first two at-bats Sunday night before a homer off Astros reliever Collin McHugh, who was making his World Series debut.
McHugh walked Corey Seager and Justin Turner, the first two batters he faced, after taking over to start the fifth. Kike Hernandez then took a called third strike before Bellinger's big blast to right-center.
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