He secured two outs on three pitches and got ahead one strike to Soler but issued a two-out walk. Garcia, who inherited at least one base runner in five of his seven previous postseason appearances with the Astros, began the fifth inning with a clean slate. Taylor’s performance put the Astros in an ideal position to use righthander Yimi Garcia against the slew of righthanded hitters in the meat of the Braves order.
Taylor gave up a two-out single to Eddie Rosario but struck out Freddie Freeman to end the inning. Garcia faced two more batters in the fourth inning before Baker went to the lefthanded Taylor to face the two lefties at the top of the Braves order. But I was trying to get out of that inning like however I can do it, and I’m glad that I did.” “When I walked Soler, I was like kind of mad because - you know. As the ball hit glove, Garcia’s typical grin was replaced by a menacing scowl. Garcia got Adam Duvall to foul out and on his 70th pitch of the game delivered a filthy cutter to strike out Travis d’Arnaud. It arrived as he began his second trip through the order in the third inning.ĭuring the bases-loaded mound visit, Strom advised Garcia to go back to his typical windup instead of pitching out of the stretch. Garcia went to a three-ball count for seven of the first nine Braves batters, forewarning trouble.
He returned to his hard-throwing ways from his start in Game 6 of the ALCS - but as Baker feared, that heightened velocity accompanied a loss of command.
Luis Garcia threw 72 pitches and fanned six batters to counteract allowing three hits and four walks. Usually you can’t get out of trouble more than two or three times during the game, but I thought that Garcia had had enough, and then the rest of our guys did a real good job.” “One of the secrets of pitching is knowing how to get out of trouble. “Our team did a good job of getting out of trouble because they had left a lot of men on base early,” Baker said. Graveman retired Jorge Soler and Adam Duvall on five pitches before d’Arnaud struck a first-pitch rocket 112.6 mph off the bat and over the outfield wall for a 2-0 Braves lead. Blake Taylor, Yimi Garcia, Brooks Raley and Ryne Stanek combined to follow him with 31/3 scoreless frames. Garcia held Atlanta to one run in 32/3 innings. 151 against Astros relievers.Įven as the Astros were no-hit through seven innings Friday, the Braves stranded nine men on base and went 1-for-6 with runners in scoring position. In the World Series, the Astros bullpen has posted a 1.17 ERA over 151/3innings while allowing eight hits, two runs, one home run, five walks and 19 strikeouts. Houston relievers have pitched more innings this postseason than the starting rotation, and handled the workload exceptionally well.
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