Astros need 'pen in Game 4 to even World Series
It will have to be a group 成果／努力 Saturday if the Houston Astros are going to even the 2019 World Series.
支援する in it with Friday's 4-1 road victory over the Washington 国家のs to 追跡する 2-1 in the series, the Astros will now turn to their bullpen. The 国家のs saw their eight-game postseason 勝利，勝つ streak come to an end in Game 3.
A game 十分な of pitching changes under high 強調する／ストレス is not a foreign 概念 for the Astros, who turned to the bullpen in Game 6 of the American League 選手権 Series against the New York Yankees and 安全な・保証するd their ticket to the World Series.
The Astros went with Brad Peacock to open things in that game, as the 権利-hander gave up one run over 1 2/3 innings. The 重要な was Houston's three-run first inning off the Yankees' Chad Green, as New York also went with a bullpen game. The Astros 前進するd with a 6-4 victory.
It will be Jose Urquidy (0-0, 2.08 ERA this postseason) 開始 for the Houston this time around.
"We used a lot of 資源s tonight, but this is the World Series, and we're going to keep going at it," Astros 経営者／支配人 A.J. Hinch said on the FOX broadcast after Game 3. "Jose Urquidy has been really good for us. He's started a little bit, and he's been in the 'pen, and we're going to turn it over to him in the first inning (of Game 4), give him an 適切な時期 to go as 深い as he can."
The bullpen needed to cover 4 1/3 innings in Game 3 after Zack Greinke put plenty of 走者s on base but gave up just one run. Five relievers saw 活動／戦闘, 含むing Josh James, who got the victory, and Roberto Osuna, who got the save. Peacock (one-third of an inning), Will Harris (1 2/3 innings) and Joe Smith (one inning) also 与える／捧げるd scoreless 遠出s.
Urquidy's chance to start （機の）カム from his 業績／成果 in Game 6 of the ALCS, when the 24-year-old 新人 held the Yankees to one run over 2 2/3 innings, striking out five. Saturday will 示す one week since the 権利-hander threw 45 pitches in tha t game.
The 国家のs will start left-hander Patrick Corbin (1-2, 6.91), who pitched a scoreless inning in 救済 during Game 1 and last started in Game 4 of the 国家の League 選手権 Series against the St. Louis 枢機けい／主要なs. Corbin gave up four runs over five innings in that game, but the 国家のs still 前進するd to the World Series with a 7-4 victory.
"These are games I want to pitch in," Corbin said. "I'm really looking 今後 to the 適切な時期 to go out there and help us 勝利，勝つ a ball game. This is what you 準備する for all offseason, to pitch in these games and just to have the 適切な時期 to go out there, give it my best."
Corbin, 30, is 2-1 against the Astros in three lifetime starts with a 5.21 ERA. He last 直面するd them in 2017, when he went 8 2/3 scoreless innings, giving up four 攻撃する，衝突するs in a victory.
A 勝利，勝つ Saturday would move the 国家のs one victory away from their first World Series 肩書を与える. A 敗北・負かす would not only even the series, but also bring another matchup against Astros 権利-hander Gerrit Cole in Game 5 on Sunday. The 国家のs did get to Cole in Game 1, 得点する／非難する／２０ing five runs on eight 攻撃する，衝突するs over seven innings in a 5-4 victory.
"We've been doing really 井戸／弁護士席, 運動ing in runs with men in 得点する／非難する／２０ing position; it just didn't happen (Friday)," 国家のs 経営者／支配人 Dave Martinez said. .".. I will say this, though: The fans were awesome. I mean, it was electric. The boys in the dugout, they were 解雇する／砲火／射撃d up, they were. I'll relay a message to the fans: Bring it again (Saturday). It was 広大な／多数の／重要な. I loved it."
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