Stephen Strasburg, Justin Verlander To Start Game Two Of The World Series As Washington Takes On Houston
Washington will get the opportunity to take a 2-0 lead in the World Series on Wednesday night while Houston will look to bounce back and even up the series on Wednesday night when Stephen Strasburg starts for Washington while Justin Verlander will start for Houston.
In game two of the World Series Justin Verlander will look to bounce back from his last outing that came in the American League Championship Series against New York .
Verlander struggled to get his fastball down in the zone. Judge singled and Gleyber Torres doubled before Verlander recorded an out, and Aaron Hicks continued his string of solid playoff at-bats by working the count full, then barreling an 88.2 mph slider. “according to https://www.mlb.com/news/james-paxton-alcs-game-5-start-yankees
Hicks savored the moment, flipping his bat as he watched the drive clang off the right-field foul pole for a 4-1 lead. “according to https://www.mlb.com/news/james-paxton-alcs-game-5-start-yankees
As stated above,
Stephen Strasburg will start for Washington. The right -hander comes into the game with a record of 18-6 with a 3.32 earn run average. Strasburg has a 1.64 ERA this postseason, with 33 strikeouts to only one walk. His 1.10 career playoff ERA is third-lowest all-time among pitchers with at least five postseason starts, behind only Sandy Koufax (0.95) and Christy Mathewson (1.06). He will oppose Justin Verlander who comes into the game with a record of 21-6 with an earn run average of 2.58. Verlander has had a more up-and-down postseason than you might expect, with a pair of strong outings but also a pair of losses, and a 3.70 ERA. In his first Fall Classic with Houston, he turned in a pair of quality starts against the Dodgers. “according to https://www.mlb.com/nationals/roster/probable-pitchers
As for game one of the World Series,
19-0 in his last 25 starts with a 0.40 earn run average in his previous starts came to an end for Gerrit Cole in game one of the World Series against Washington in Houston.
Juan Soto, beamed brightest and their bullpen bent but didn’t break in a statement-making 5-4 victory in Game 1 on Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park. “according to https://www.mlb.com/astros/news/juan-soto-nationals-beat-astros-in-world-series-game-1
With five earned runs off Cole -- matching the total the Astros right-hander and free-agent-to-be had allowed in his previous eight starts combined -- Washington, which has the best record in baseball over the last five months, washed away all the “rest vs. rust” conversation that pervaded a six-day layoff created by its swift sweep of St. Louis in the National League Championship Series. Big moments from 35-year-old “Mr. National” Ryan Zimmerman, who hit the first Fall Classic homer in franchise history, and the 20-year-old wunderkind Soto, who finished a triple shy of the cycle, highlighted the Nationals’ first win in a World Series game and the first for a team from the District since Game 3 in 1933 “according to https://www.mlb.com/nationals/news/juan-soto-nationals-beat-astros-in-world-series-game-1
In the second inning, the Nats got their first Series swat from an appropriate source in Zimmerman, who was selected with their first Draft pick after the move from Montreal exactly 5,250 days earlier. “according to https://www.mlb.com/nationals/news/juan-soto-nationals-beat-astros-in-world-series-game-1
The Nats tied it in the fourth from the other end of the age spectrum, when Soto took Cole deep with a jaw-dropping opposite-field dinger that landed on Minute Maid Park’s famous railroad tracks. “according to https://www.mlb.com/nationals/news/juan-soto-nationals-beat-astros-in-world-series-game-1
The Nats took the lead for good when they roughed Cole up for a three-run fifth elevated by Adam Eaton’s RBI single and punctuated by Soto’s wall-puncturing double to left that brought home a pair to make it 5-2. “according to https://www.mlb.com/nationals/news/juan-soto-nationals-beat-astros-in-world-series-game-1
As for Houston,
They had a setback in game one of the World Series despite efforts from right fielder George Springer.
George Springer homered in his record fifth consecutive World Series game to make it 5-3 in the seventh. Daniel Hudson relieved Rainey and recorded an inning-ending strikeout of Yordan Alvarez with the bases loaded in an especially huge moment. “according to https://www.mlb.com/astros/news/juan-soto-nationals-beat-astros-in-world-series-game-1
Springer’s RBI double off Hudson in the eighth nearly cleared the right-center-field wall and put a lump in the throat of the Nationals faithful. But closer Sean Doolittle converted the four-out save to seal a win that reverberated some 1,400 miles away. “according to https://www.mlb.com/astros/news/juan-soto-nationals-beat-astros-in-world-series-game-1
First pitch is set for 8:07pm from Minute Maid Park. The game will be televised on Fox.