The Arizona Republic

Series

- Taylor cf Seager ss Turner 3b 1-Culberson pr-2b Bellinger 1b Puig rf Forsythe 2b-3b Barnes c Pederson dh Hernandez lf Springer cf Bregman 3b Altuve 2b Correa ss Gurriel 1b Reddick rf Gattis dh Gonzalez lf McCann c 1-ran for Turner in the 9th. LOB—Los An

shaw starts Game 5 for the Dodgers on Sunday night and Dallas Keuchel for the Astros in a rematch of the opener, when Kershaw pitched Los Angeles to a 3-1 win.

Bellinger, a 22-year-old bopper who set a National League rookie record with 39 home runs this season, struck out four times in Game 3 and once more in the fifth inning — his eighth whiff of the Series.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts expressed faith Friday night in Bellinger and again Saturday afternoon.

“He’s got that calmness about him,” Roberts said.

“And when things speed up, he has a way of sort of resetting and not letting it spiral.”

Bellinger doubled over left fielder Marwin Gonzalez, chasing starter Charlie Morton, and came home on Logan Forsythe’s two-out single off Will Harris.

Giles entered to start the ninth and got into immediate trouble, allowing a leadoff single to Corey Seager and a walk to Justin Turner. Bellinger took a low slider, then lined a fastball at the letters to left-center. He raised a hand rounding first and clapped his hands half a dozen times in excitement after sliding into second.

Joe Musgrove relieved and allowed Austin Barnes’ sacrifice fly and Joc Pederson’s three-run homer, his second home run of the Series.

“You like that! You like that!” Pederson yelled to teammates, a la Washington Redskins quarterbac­k Kirk Cousins, as he came back to dugout.

Wood, Brandon Morrow, winner Tony Watson and Kenley Jansen combined on a two-hitter. Jansen allowed Alex Bregman’s two-out homer in the ninth, the 14th home run of the Series.

Giles, the loser, was charged with three runs. He has an 11.75 postseason ERA, allowing runs in six of seven appearance­s.

“When you’re a back-end reliever,” Astros manager A.J. Hinch said, “unless you’re extraordin­arily dominant, you’re only talked about when you suffer, when you struggle. So for him, he can handle it mentally. He can handle it physically.”

Springer put the Astros ahead when he drove a curveball, Wood’s 84th and final pitch, over the left-field scoreboard and into the Crawford Boxes. Wood dropped to a knee on the mound and watched the ball land in the seats and rebound onto the field.

Houston was nine outs from winning for the 18th time in 20 home games since returning to Minute Maid Park after Hurricane Harvey, and from becoming the first major league team to start a postseason 8-0 at home.

But the Dodgers tied the score in the seventh. Bellinger pointed skyward when reaching second standing up on his opposite-field hit. He clapped both hands above his head, said “It’s a miracle!” and pointed for the ball to be saved.

Los Angeles had been 1 for 17 with runners in scoring position before Forsythe’s hit.

Making only his second appearance since Sept. 26, Wood accomplish­ed a feat that eluded Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Orel Hershiser and other Dodgers pitching greats.

In the team’s 109th World Series game, Wood became the first Dodgers pitcher to hold an opponent hitless through five innings.

Houston had put a runner on in 14 consecutiv­e innings before the 26-yearold lefty retired the side in order in the first.

Morton was nearly as stingy, allowing three hits in 6 1/3 innings.

Chris Taylor singled leading off the first but was thrown out on a delayed steal attempt that ended the inning, the first runner caught stealing by Houston catcher Brian McCann since June 18.

That was part of a streak of 15 straight outs by Morton before he hit Barnes on the right forearm with a pitch leading off the sixth.

Enrique Hernandez’s single put runners at the corners and Taylor hit a twohopper to third that Bregman scooped on an in-between hop and threw home in plenty of time for McCann to tag Barnes, who tried to stop about 10 feet from the plate and fell.

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United States