What did we say yesterday? What a difference a day makes?
What a different three innings make.
After Yasiel Puig's three-run home run in the bottom of the sixth -- prompting a for-the-ages spike of the glove by Eduardo Rodriguez -- the Los Angeles Dodgers looked to have Game 4, and a 2-2 World Series tie, all wrapped up. The Boston Red Sox had managed only one hit off Milton's Rich Hill to that point. had scored only two runs in their last 24 innings, and seemed as likely to come back from a 4-0 deficit (that's the lead Puig had given L.A. with his blast halfway up the left-field bleachers) as they were to sprout wings and fly.
Well, fly they did.
And now, after scoring nine runs in their final three at-bats, the Red Sox are on the brink of their ninth World Series championship. They can clinch it tonight in Game 5, with first pitch scheduled for 8:15 p.m.
HOW TO WATCH (AND LISTEN)
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ANALYSIS AND REACTION
BEFORE THE GAME: Sports Sunday, beginning at 6:30 p.m. and running until 8, gets ready for Game 5 with reports from Evan Drellich, Trenni Kusnierek and Lou Merloni in Los Angeles. Watch on NBC Sports Boston or click here for the livestream.
AFTER THE GAME: As soon as the game ends, tune to The Baseball Show - World Series Edition presented by Twin River Hotel & Casino for analysis, commentary and player reaction with Drellich, Kusnierek and Merloni in Los Angeles, and Tom Giles and Tony Massarotti in Burlington. Watch on NBC Sports Boston or click here for the livestream.
TONIGHT'S PITCHING MATCHUP
David Price (2-1, 4.26 so far in the postseason) is the Red Sox' surprise starter, announced almost as an afterthought by Alex Cora at the end of his Game 4 postgame press conference. ("Well, nobody asked!" was his explanation when questioned as to why he waited until he was almost out the door to break the news.) He faces Dodger ace Clayton Kershaw (2-2, 3.91), the losing pitcher in the Red Sox' 8-4 Game 1 victory at Fenway Park.
AND IT WORKED
Chris Sale did what every Red Sox fan wanted to do at the end of the sixth inning Saturday: He screamed angrily at the Sox' hitters, who had been succumbing meekly to Los Angeles pitching for nearly 24 hours. "It scared me a little bit," admitted Rafael Devers, who -- coincidentally? -- would drive in the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth.
OR MAYBE NOT
Evan Drellich says Sale's histrionics were all well and good, but in actuality it was the Sox' season-long ability "to almost immediately turn their attention to the next moment, rather than the last" that did the trick.
LOOK WHO'S TALKING
Both managers have made their share of controversial moves during this series and Cora certainly would have had to answer for letting Rodriguez pitch to Puig had the Red Sox lost. But instead it was Dave Roberts who got the (surprising) attention of the Twitterer In Chief.
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