The Philadelphia Phillies made the impossible happen in Game 1 against Houston Astros.
After going down 5-0 in the third half, largely due to two runs at home by the Astros . midfielder Kyle TuckerPhillies fastened his seat belt and tried to back away, tying it to a JT Realmuto double in Thursday. Neither team could score in the remaining four innings, although the Astros came close to ninth with Jose Altuve in the scoring position with two points. Nick Castellanos However, made an incredible catch to send the game into extra time.
Realmuto appeared again in the 10th half, making a quick run to the right to give the Phillies a one-goal lead. Philadelphia held after a Alex Bregman doubled in round 10 and had Game 1 which seemed to have ended prematurely.
They’re doing it all again on Saturday night for Game 2. For now, here are the highlights and takeaways from the instant classic World Series opening.
Game 1 result
Here’s why you can’t predict baseball – let alone the World Series. Two things we wouldn’t have foreseen about Game 1: Phillies won the battle of the bulls, and Nick Castellanos Make a catch save game for the Phillies at the right school. And we certainly wouldn’t expect the Astros to lead 5-0. After all, there’s only been five times in World Series history that a team has overcome a 5-fold deficit.
JT Realmuto played the biggest hero for the Phillies, taking the lead home in the 10th inning and scoring a brace two innings earlier in the game. But it was a night of heroes for Philadelphia, including five relief pitchers who combined to throw 5⅔ innings without a goal.
Astros lead 5-0 after three innings, after two Kyle Tucker running house and Justin Verlander looks great with three perfect innings. Their win rate: 95%. Then, the Phillies’ relentless offense began to hit Verlander, scoring three runs with two passes in the fourth and two more in the fifth. Castellanos will save the day with a double-dive caught at the bottom of ninth place on Jeremy Pena’s blooper with Jose Altuve on the second basis. Castellanos was ranked among the league’s worst performers according to Statcast’s average batting, and the game had a projected average hit score of 0.480. Given the circumstances, it’s the biggest achievement of Castellanos’ career – although he had a similar ninth-round save against the Braves in Game 1 of the division series.
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Jeremy Pena passes a ball to the right of the field, but Nick Castellanos rushes to make a miss to send Game 1 of the World Series into extra time.
The game went through a lot of extra time and Dusty Baker moved into the starter phase Luis Garcia analgesic Ryne Stanek and Hunter Brown – not the worst decision, given Garcia’s five innings without scoring in that 18-round win over the Mariners in the ALDS – but certainly a bit questionable given two effective, hard-to-throw painkillers still and in the barn. Realmuto greeted him with a drive home just past a Tucker glove and into the right stands. David Robertson then gutted savings, get Aledmys Diaz to go out with the runners-up second and third.
Rub. Can we get six more like this one?
Game 1 management advantage went to Rob Thomson in a big way. He masterfully uses his left hand Jose Alvarado in the fifth and sixth innings to pass Yordan Alvarez/Alex Bregman/ Kyle Tucker trio and then the same move afterwards with the left-handed starter Ranger Suarez. Baker has been away from Verlander for too long and is said to have chosen the wrong reliever on day 10. However, this game is not available on Baker. Credits to the Phillies for doing everything right and delivering the clutch shots and playing the clutch at the right time. And there’s certainly a new story in the pipeline: Verlander, the future Hall of Famer, is now undefeated in eight World Series starts in his career (0-6 with 6.07 ERA) . Unless he’s wiped out by the Phillies, he’ll get another chance in Game 5.
Oh, the last team to take the top five in World Series: Baker’s Giants to the Angels in that fateful Game 6 back in 2002. – David Schoenfield
Realmuto wows Houston crowd
MOTHERS! #WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/tBnyeldpbU
– MLB (@MLB) October 29, 2022
Castellanos keeps Philly alive
Is NICK AGAIN? pic.twitter.com/epLEEDkzoR
– Philadelphia Phillies (@Phillies) October 29, 2022
The longer this game lasts…
After a great defensive play to end the ninth half with Nick Castellanos, we are entering extra time in what has become a battle of bulls. I like the management of the Phillies, Rob Thomson has managed this game, providing high leverage Jose Alvarado in the fifth round face-to-face Yordan Alvarez and then scheduled game 3 to start Ranger Suarez in the same situation in Saturday. Then we saw the closings in the ninth inning: Ryan Pressly for the Astros and Seranthony Dominguez for the Phillies (who finished eighth). Then the Astros still have Ryne Stanekhard-working rookie Hunter Brown and favorable Will Smith for a possible key Kyle Schwarber or Bryce Harper at-bat. Phillies will have veterans David Robertson …and then it thinned out in a hurry. Advantage, Astros. – Schoenfield
A brand new ball game
Astros added leftist Will Smith – closer to the champion Atlanta Braves a year ago – on the list for this round. Dusty Baker had the perfect situation to use him with his left hand Brandon Marsh and Kyle Schwarber fifth lead against a fatigue Justin Verlander. Marsh scored .188 against the Left and Schwarber .193 this season.
But with Verlander back there and Marsh doubling, Schwarber walked away and JT Realmuto End the game with one or two runs. These Phillies don’t give up, that’s for sure. In our predictive profiling heading to the series, I warned that Baker was likely to leave the warm-up on for too long at some point – and we’ve just seen that happen. There’s a lot more baseball to go to here, but the 5-0 loss turned out to be a good game all of a sudden. – Schoenfield
JT stands for JUST TIED THIS BALLGAME RIGHT UP pic.twitter.com/u33yqoIuaA
– Philadelphia Phillies (@Phillies) October 29, 2022
Phillies on the forum
Just like that, the Phillies are right back in this game, scoring three points Justin Verlander with two results in the fourth inning. Verlander shows up to catch up on a break when Rhys Hoskins held at the third facility on Bryce Harper’s right-of-way two-output line, but Nick Castellanos rescue Hoskins with a basic left and Alec Bohm Double the lead on the left flank to score two goals.
Now to the big question: How long will Dusty Baker be with Verlander? Houston has a deep, dominant bullpen that has allowed three runs in 33 innings in the post-season period. After Verlander came up with the 10-degree walk for light hitting Bryson Stott after three runs have scored, in addition to throwing 31 innings, Baker should consider a fifth bullpen and the upcoming 9-1-2 game. The Astros have the bullpen arms to cover five innings. – Schoenfield
Kyle Tucker game
This game is coming soon Kyle Tucker Unloading on sunken ship 3-2 words Aaron Nola in three home runs and led 5-0 for the Astros in bottom third of the table. John Smoltz noted a great point during the broadcast that Nola didn’t seem to want to go back on his change as Tucker beat it in the second inning. So even though Nola was leading 0-2, he was stuck with fast balls and curved balls. Tucker locked the fast ball and crushed it at 105.3 mph and 395 feet to center right, becoming the first Astros player to play a multi-homer game in the World Series. We have plenty of time to see if Tucker can match Babe Ruth (twice), Reggie Jackson, Albert Pujols and Pablo Sandoval with the three-player World Series game. – Schoenfield
SECOND KING TUCK. #WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/vPwUzbQRzg
– MLB (@MLB) October 29, 2022
Verlander is dealing
Justin Verlander his reputation as a major pitcher in the post-season – largely based on two dominant performances against the Yankees in the 2017 ALCS, however, his World Series history is another matter: He entered this match 0-6 with an ERA of 5.68 after seven career starts. It was the third-worst ERA among pitchers who have started at least five World Series games. From the start, however, he flew: Nine up and nine down in three innings with four strikes, including a three-yard strike by Bryce Harper when he let Harper spin and slide three fast balls straight at the top of the area. – Schoenfield
Tucker opened the scoring
Kyle Tuckerthe lower-rated star in the Houston squad, putting the first game of the World Series on the table with a run home on the right after a 1-1 change in a poor position against Aaron Nola. That’s a bad sign for Nola. He played superbly in the first two games of the post-season, allowing one free run in over 12.2 innings, but served twice to go home in the NLCS Game 2 loss to the Padres, coming ahead. 4-0 lead early in the process. The Astros are also counting down his throw in the first two innings, another bad sign for the Phillies, who don’t have the same muscle depth as the Astros in the event that Nola can’t play six or seven innings. More bad news for the Phillies: Martin Maldonado singles make it 2-0: The Astros won 22 straight games when they scored their first goal, returning to the regular season. – Schoenfield
Hey king. #WorldSeries pic.twitter.com/LuJ9lPH7uE
– MLB (@MLB) October 29, 2022
Hit-and-run to perfection. pic.twitter.com/saCybquLsi
– Houston Astros (@astros) October 29, 2022
Simone Biles represents Houston
.@Simone_Biles receive #WorldSeries started. pic.twitter.com/B2BT5W72yw
– Houston Astros (@astros) October 29, 2022
Eagle towing Phillies
We are informing you, @Phillies!#Red October | #FlyEaglesFly pic.twitter.com/LeU2HnqMMb
– Philadelphia Eagles (@Eagles) October 28, 2022
More Pregame fashion
Fit test pic.twitter.com/vNHZyms9zk
– Philadelphia Phillies (@Phillies) October 28, 2022
The stars at night are huge and bright. pic.twitter.com/xdTQJcqfpz
– Houston Astros (@astros) October 28, 2022
Harper channel Mike Schmidt
Bryce Harper entered Game 1 wearing a jersey from Philadelphia Phillies legend and Mike Schmidt Walk of Fame. This isn’t the first time Harper has paid tribute to Schmidt – earlier this season, he did a photo session recreate Schmidt’s iconic 1987 Phillies Media guide cover.
To be the best, you have to dress the best pic.twitter.com/AkAvesqrqZ
– Philadelphia Phillies (@Phillies) October 28, 2022
