He ran the count full against Anthony Rendon but struck out the Nationals’ cleanup hitter with a well-placed, 89-mile-per-hour fastball. Adam Eaton hit a little dribbler in front of the plate and was thrown out at first by Robinson Chirinos and Anthony Rendon grounded out to third. To put it into context, my father was born one year after we won the last World Series.

It wouldn't be the Nationals in October if they didn't come from behind to win a game, right? Hinch replaced him with Roberto Osuna, who walked Ryan Zimmerman, got Yan Gomes to pop out to second, and escaped the inning when Victor Robles flied out to right. Greinke had retired Adam Eaton on a grounder to short to start the inning, but he gave up half of his lead when Anthony Rendon hammered a ball 374 feet to left for a solo home run.

In the top of the first, Juan Soto singled off Zack Greinke for the first hit of the game for either team, but he wasn’t on base long as Greinke induced a comebacker from Howie Kendrick that the Astros turned into a 1-4-3 double play.

That was it, though.

Davey Martinez, meanwhile, never asked Strasburg to warm. The Nationals channelled their frustration in the best possible way as Rendon's home run off reliever Will Harris made it 5-2 - although Martinez continued his tirade at the umpires after the inning was over, having to be physically restrained by two of his coaches, and was ejected from the game. Hinch said he removed Greinke in the seventh inning, even though he had only given up two hits, because he thought he had reached his limit for the night. The winner-takes-all game seven will be held at Houston's Minute Maid Park on Wednesday at 20:08 ET (Thursday, 00:08 GMT). In the top half of the inning, Greinke continued his quiet efficiency, once again needing just eight pitches to get through the Nationals. Trea Turner smoked a liner down the third base line that Alex Bregman snared for the first out.

Covering the impact of coronavirus on the sports world. But Adam Eaton and Juan Soto's solo homers, the latter a towering blast into the second tier of seats in right field, made it 3-2 and meant Astros starting pitcher Justin Verlander left after five innings. Washington is into its bullpen, Zack Greinke is dealing, and the Astros continue to lead, 2-0. All Rights Reserved. Zach Montague contributed reporting from Washington.

Read about our approach to external linking. “There were a lot of phone calls those last three innings,” said Sean Doolittle, the Nationals relief pitcher.

“We have a great opportunity tomorrow to play a home game, Game 7 of the World Series,” Astros Manager A.J. A grounder back to the pitcher and two fly balls to center were all Washington could muster. In the bottom half of the inning, Scherzer was not quite as sharp, but he still held the Astros scoreless.

“Now they have one, and one that won a World Series.

Another Fall Classic first: the Nationals became the first team to ever win four road games in a World Series. For some, it was the turning point in what became a wild, unexpected championship season.

From the experts to the players and fans nobody can quite explain why the away teams have had so much success. The Astros' came in the bottom of the second, with two runners on and nobody on base. Jose Altuve stroked a single to left to lead off the bottom half of the inning. He retired Trea Turner on a grounder to short but walked Adam Eaton.

The mighty Yordan Alvarez stepped to the plate, but he grounded out on a soft grounder back to the pitcher. He looked clean and full on ready to go.”, Game 6 featured some entertaining histrionics between the cleanup hitters for both teams, but it is doubtful it will carry over to Game 7.

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Will the Nationals win their first World Series as a franchise, and the first for the city of Washington since the old Senators won it in 1924? Zack Greinke pitching during the fourth inning. He got Carlos Correa to ground out to second and struck out Robinson Chirinos, but he allowed a two-out single to right by Josh Reddick. Thirteen years on the Nationals are champions, winning the title at the end of a year filled with comebacks in both the regular season and the playoffs, and ending years of postseason frustration. Erik Williams/USA Today Sports, via Reuters.

Greinke has faced the minimum number of batters through three innings while needing just 28 pitches to get there. The Nationals filled the void when they left Montreal, changed their name from the Expos, and moved into R.F.K. Howie Kendrick hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning.

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Jose Altuve struck out with a huge cut on a 95-mile-per-hour fastball, and Hudson clinched the Nationals’ first World Series title, by striking out Michael Brantley. “I mean, we can’t explain it.



He did give up two runs and only fanned four, but his performance must be looked at in a greater context. Houston captured the World Series in 2017, and has won 100 games three years in a row, including a major league-high 107 this year, which gave them home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. © 2004-2020 CBS Interactive. pic.twitter.com/98tb8eKE6F.

The Nationals finally got their second baserunner of the night when Howie Kendrick walked, and he reached second on a sacrifice bunt by Asdrubal Cabrera.

Neither appeared. in the postseason, but Scherzer has been stellar.

He looked good. A mostly uninspiring World Series turned on its head Tuesday when the Washington Nationals defeated the Houston Astros, 7-2, in a dramatic Game 6 full of heroes, subplots and memorable moments, all to set up baseball’s ultimate game.

A 6-2 victory over the Houston Astros in Game 7 … Harris didn't last long -- and neither did the Astros' lead from that point on. section: | slug: nationals-win-world-series-five-takeaways-as-washington-storms-back-to-beat-houston-in-game-7 | sport: baseball | route: article_single.us | Robinson Chirinos grounded out to short, and Corbin struck out Jake Marisnick to end the inning.

Gurriel led off the bottom half of the inning, and he crushed a 2-1 slider from Max Scherzer 389 feet to left center for his second home run of the postseason. The Nationals tacked on three more runs in the eighth and ninth to gain a comfortable lead, and with the final out, they joined the other successful baseball clubs from Washington from the distant past — including the old Senators and the Homestead Grays, the Negro League powerhouse that played many of its games in Washington’s old Griffith Stadium. Under that light, what Scherzer did on Wednesday belongs to a different rubric, one that finds his outing praiseworthy. Zack Greinke has been better, and will certainly pitch deeper into the game, but that shouldn’t take anything away from Max Scherzer, who has absolutely battled on a night without his best stuff and limited the powerful Houston lineup to just two runs.

The stolen base proved key, however, as Juan Soto singled to right, sending Eaton home for a 4-2 lead. Hinch, the Astros manager. Then, with two outs, Scherzer walked Yordan Alvarez. As it turned out, he was even ready to go by Game 6.

In Game 7, the Nationals trailed by a 2-0 margin into the seventh inning, when Anthony Rendon hit a solo home run off Zack Greinke to cut the lead to one.

In a major boost for the Nationals, star pitcher Max Scherzer will be available to start that game after having a cortisone injection to alleviate the neck and back spasms which caused him to miss his scheduled start on Sunday. After Michael Brantley flied out to left, Alex Bregman walked. I wanted to do it, too.”. He got Houston’s leadoff man, George Springer, to fly out to center. We came here today and, like I say, behind Stephen Strasburg we played really well.”. Hinch had seen enough, pulling a starter who had looked absolutely unhittable just two batters earlier and was still at just 80 pitches. In the top half of the inning, Greinke got his second strikeout of the night when Juan Soto could not pull his bat back on a changeup that was nearly in the dirt, though the 21-year-old made it clear he did not believe he had gone around, gesturing toward the first base umpire in hopes that he would disagree with the umpires at third and behind home. The move proved disastrous, as Howie Kendrick took Will Harris deep, giving the Nationals a shocking 3-2 lead.


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