lower this year than they did last year. and the twins are still a very good offensive team, but they're not the team that hit 307 homers l.a. year, either. they've taken a bit of a step backwards also, so they're going to need to win a close game like this, scoring not very many runs instead of just pounding teams. >> tim: they were on base for 270 again this year, if you were to play 160, but they're not the la bamba crew they had last to play 160, but they're not the la bamba crew they had last year. >> eduardo: between luis arraez and juan soto, very dramatic on

their takes. love it. >> karl: correa throws out arraez. boys and girls we're going to the eighth. they're 24-7 at home and score 4.5 run a game.

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into the bars and rest rabbits. presented by hankook. never halfway. >> tim: i have been to the loon. have you? >> eduardo: i have not. i have not. >> karl: alex avila has gone in to catch for the minnesota twins. how was your loon experience, tim? >> tim: like every other bar experience, one beer and then i go home. >> karl: you're out? >> tim: that's it. >> karl: people want to talk baseball with you, though? corner you? >> tim: of course. >> karl: trapped. jose altuve frustrated after that swing on a curveball from duffy, who's back for a second inning of work. tyler duffy allowed the only run of the game for the astros, a single. josh reddick came around to score on a rbi from george springer. >> eduardo: let's not forget how that top of the seventh ended --

martin maldonado getting thrown out at third base, doing it on purpose so a run could score. i thought it was scored easily. bad base running decision by maldonado. get the bat out of jose altuve's hands. runner could have been at first. >> tim: i'm not proud to say it, even though i say it every telecast, the base running is the worst i've seen it in the four decades i've covered. this is a playoff game. it's a tie game. you can't make that mistake with jose altuve or anybody coming up in that spot. >> karl: duff identify misses again. 3-1 to the lead-off hitter. >> eduardo: altuve has to think anything right center field. it's an approach factor here. >> karl: that's high, and that's a leadoff walk for altuve.

>> tim: there's that high fastball that he likes to throw. >> karl: kevin conners has a quick update for us. >> we are witnessing a masterpiece through six on espn. giolito is perfect. just struck out the side in the sixth. don larsen the only playoff perfect game. 3-0, white sox in the seventh. >> karl: well, after that leadoff walk to altuve, tyler duffy not perfect and out of the game. don't be conventional. kevin harvick? come on. it's your turn. ♪ get 250,000 miles of protection. upgrade to mobil 1.

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leave it to the update guy to jinx it. lucas giolito's perfect day is over. still, giolito and the white sox lead it 3-0 on espn. >> karl: always your fault, kevin. that's an amazing power you have

to eliminate and end a no-hitter perfect game from a studio 3,000 miles away. new pitcher taylor rodgers. a big spot with a game tied 1-1, eighth inning. michael brantley after the altuve walk. >> tim: he leads the team in cias but these in the the everyday closer. they see two left-handed hitters coming up in the next three. they think, we've got get these guys out now. let's bring in our left-hander. >> eduardo: high leverage situations. that's the way the game has been managed. in the recent years you have to understand where you're going to be in the lineup. you know they're not going hit for brantley or tucker, sow bring in your best in a crucial situation. i like it. >> tim: this guy has a great slider. he just hasn'tad the same bite on it this year as he did last year. he's going to need a slider this

layup. >> karl: brantley going to other way, so the slider will allow that bat path to drop a ball into left field. >> eduardo: that being said, good the other way in the air. the twins still playing a full shift. right side of the infield, full of twins. jorge polanco playing on the right side. >> karl: minnesota twins have lost 16 straight post season games. maeda was good, left with a 1-0 lead. it's a knnew game now. brantley takes that. no swing. 2-1. this has been a very good minnesota bullpen. sixth in the league. 3.62 ere. third in w.a.r.w a 3.3 wins above replacement mark. alex bregman on deck.

blew that by him. >> eduardo: easy 96 up in the zone. >> tim: rogers has a twin brother that pitches for the giants, and he pitches for the twins. >> karl: a twin should pitch for the twins. i see what you're doing. taylor's 29 years old. how old is his brother? again, the employees and families that are living in the bubble allowed in the ballpark there in minnesota.

2-2 to brantley. got him. big pitch on that slider, and rogers gets brantley. >> eduardo: again, michael brantley has always been a tough out. showed him the fastball up first and this time goes back to the 83-mile-per-hour slider. appears to be a strike, and then right out of it. good job by alex avila making that call. mr. duffy loving it. >> karl: and now alex bregman, the third baseman. ten homers, 27 rbis in his post season games. strike one. this is not an elimination game, but tomorrow is for one of these teams. that's why this is so important right now.

it feels like the biggest at bat of the game so far for houston with the cleanup hitter up. quick throw over the look at altuve. say whatever you want -- the drob that framber valdez has done so far to keep his team in, gives them an opportunity to tie this game again, has been an unbelievable as and the front office making that decision early on -- greinke, don't let him get by 80 pitches -- so far it's paid off for the astros. >> karl: 0-1, way inside. that was ultimate will i the question. there was concern, criticism, questioning the decision to take him out. you made it clear the pitcher wasn't happy, perhaps the manager wasn't, but it's now 1-1

and you got go-ahead run on base in the eighth inning. he's come up big in the field twice. can he come up at the plate? nope. that's popped up. sun is bright, but it's caught by the left fielder, eddie rosario for the second out. so they're able to get through . now lefty on left for rogers to take on kyle tucker. kyle tucker has been quite a story this year for houston. you could argue in a year in which everybody's numbers are down, his are getting good and

it's been a breakthrough year for him. very right-handed loaded on this team, which is why he's so important. >> karl: that's a good pitch in there for strike one. so you're first in triples and top ten in all the other categories -- extra base hits, rbis, and stolen bases. you do have that juxtaposition at first base because sano and altuve is over there. end of the bat. maybe a broken bat. and they got like nine fielders located in right field. ended up in the glove of kepler. good job. bottom eight in a 1-1 game. super top-secret mathematical formula they keep stored

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>> karl: all the action from this game in a nut sell shh. it's 1-1. two hits for the minnesota twins as we take a look at this game frack. kenta maeda went four innings. threw a lot of pitches. of pitc. the twins are trying to end a

16-game post season losing streak, and they're running into a very difficult pitcher to hit, and a guy that started for the astros, framber valdez. he deals with two, three, and four here in the bottom of a tie game. and that breaking ball has been great. >> eduardo: byron buxton has not been able to figure it out. at all. still good numbers against the breaking pitch this season, but swinging at pitches that are away out of the zone. >> karl: i think i said four, maeda wentinnings. another strike. white sox, by the way, just add another run. giolito gave up a hit, so the perfect game is gone, but home runs are back for the white sox. it's 4-0 chicago in the top of the eighth on espn.

4-0, white sox. >> tim: eddie, he's had trouble with that curveball. do you just throw it again here? >> eduardo: exactly, throw it again a little lower this time. there. it's a pitch that's designed, again, to look like a strike and get you to chase. once you see that spin it looks big, and framber valdez with that high spin rate making it work for him. byron buxton, when have you seen a hitter that has 130 plate appearances, an o.b.s. above 800, but an on base percentage above .375. you wonder if it's sustainable. mers in a season.left at sends tucker into the corner. and then he runs out of room. an of course everybody remembers the regular season.

in a tie game you start with a runner on second. that is not the case in the post season. we'll play it out conventionally. no runner at second. this one, if it stays tie through nine, got a chance to go longer than most of the games in the regular season. >> tim: if it's such a great rule and everybody loves it so much, why don't we use it during the postseason? >> karl: i would. i think the reason -- as kepler got jammed here. and it is springer and tucker -- it's tucker. i think there was a goal to expedite the game in the regular season because they were jamming 60 games in. they didn't want pitg staffs to get used. they figured this would end games quicker than the conventional style. >> tim: yes, i'm well aware of why they put the rule in. >> karl: i thought you ask a request. >> tim: this was rhetorical. i'm just saying i'm not a big fan of this. >> karl: you made it quite

clear. >> tim: just not sure we should use it when we're playing next year. >> karl: in the regular season? >> tim: yes. >> karl: i'm in on it. eddie, you're laughing again. >> eduardo: i leave it's a here to stay in the regular season. i really do. even teams have showed that most of the teams don't even bunt the situation depending where they are in the lineup, and it's really shown the capacity of what you have in the bullpen, how teams are able to execute, who are not able to execute, and it's going to show a little more of that fundamental baseball. ins came into the game in the inning fed four batters, retired all of them, and got the loss in the game because in the tenth inning we came in with a runner on second base. faced four batters, got them all out, and got the loss because

sergio romo came in and gave it up. tell me how that's fair. >> karl: you could definitely change the scoring. look, regular season is clear -- their goal is to not have arms taxed, bullpens taxed. i think it is a fair question -- if it works in the regular season, why do we change thist result in the postseason, if that is what's ultimately going to happen. sergio romo warms for the twins. and rocco baldelli. framber valdez has definitely been the most valuable player for the astros today, if he can h does. framber valdez? five strikeouts since coming into the game. it's eerily quiet in minnesota.

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there are the number of games. his e.r.a., 23-7. strikeouts to walk. and a whip of 1.5. gurriel didn't like that call. >> eduardo: as an it her you can't help, because as soon as you see sergio romo come into the game, you see not hit any part of the plate, you're looking for the sergio romo slider. and so far, two fastballs by romo to gurriel. >> karl: there's slider. reaches out and drops it into right center field for a leadoff hit off sr.er, and that pitch was way off the plate, but a good start for the astros here in the ninth. >> eduardo: you commit to the at-bat to looking for that one pitch. you're like, i'm going to let any other pitch go if it's a fastball.

yuli gurriel, not trying to do so much with it. covers not only the plate area, but a little bit more and is able to get that base hit to right center field. >> karl: now correa. >> eduardo: ooh. that pitch right there, if he's looking slider, can go a long way. should have been called a st >> karl: right down broadway for a strike. 1-1. romo of course has been around for a while. he's a three-time world series chafr. with him, the giants in 2010, '12, and '14.

25 1/3 innings of post season work. over all, a .355 e.r.a. jake odorizzi, the starter for the twins through the season is warming in the bullpen. and they will try if they get to the tenth inning to be get some innings out of jake. in an interview with jake, in which he compared himself to maeda this round. if same way the dodgers used maedaing i expect to be use besidety twed by the twins. >> tim: 3-1, eddie, does he slow a slider here? >> eduardo: i would. that's his bread and butter. that's what's kept them so long.

at this level. >> karl: instead it was a fastball. this is a little blooper into center field. that's going to drop. and now the astros are in big-time business in the ninth with runners at first and second on a couple after soft hits. >> eduardo: yeah, but what this tells me is two things -- the astros are looking for the slider the entire time. saw it with the 0-2 pitch. carlos correa is looking slider. he still can catch up. the fastball is right down the middle. he gets jammed. the back of his mind thinking slider. you're not supposed to get jammed on a 3-1 fastball coming 88, flat as it was right there. strong enough to get it out over the infeed for a hit, and now the astros putting a little pressure on sergio romo. >> karl: here's the eight hitter, reddick. years back, this would be a bunt situation to get the runners to

second and third with one out. >> eduardo: wow. ball's outside. board says 1-0, but d.j. rayburn called it a strike, if i'm not mistaken. >> karl: reddick got one to hit, and he popped it up. playable for gonzalez. and he makes a tough play. no advancement. big out, josh reddick. has come up with a couple of opportunities. . couldn't deliver thenere. so o down, two on. >> eduardo: yeah, frustrating afternoon for josh reddick. 1 for 4. two strikeouts to go along with it. but every time there was a runner on base, he was not able to do the job, not even move the

runners over by trying to pull the ball. >> tim: six sacrifice bunt ngs josh reddick's career. 4,700 plate appearances. that's why people don't bunt anymore, because they never ask them to bunt. >> karl: maldonado with a slow runner. gurriel at second. slider. misses away. >> tim: eddie, does a player say, i ran us out of the last inning? i got make up for that here? does that go through a hitter's

mind here, or are there other things to think about? >> eduardo: i hope he's thinking in the present right now, and he can put that one in the past. martin maldonado, he's a guess hitter at the plate. seen him not only at the major league level but also in winter ball, so i wouldn't be surprised if he's guessing slider. >> karl: 2- 0. this ball driven to left field. it's going the hang up. caught by rosario. no add vavancementadvancement. you can see romo. he's given up a couple of singles and now two outs. he's a george springer at bat away from getting out of it. >> eduardo: yeah, a lot of people wondering why josh reddick did not bunt. that's no not the game that the astros played all season. and this is one of the observations that you'll see throughout this post season -- it's post season baseball. you're supposed to play different. be if guys aren't used to bunting, they don't know how to

do it. you won't see their managers asking them to do something they're not used to doing. >> karl: springer, a rbi single in the seventh. and romo, down in the zone. >> tim: eddie, another first pitch where springer didn't offer, because they're not throwing him a strike. >> eduardo: i'm jogeorge spring i sell out completely on the slider. it's all he's been getting this afternoon. they'll show him the heater but the slider is a constant. >> karl: mm. started at his left knee and slid in over the plate. >> eduardo: [ speaking foreign language ] that's what makes you speak a little spanish on abc. >> tim: what did you say in spanish? >> eduardo: i just said, oh, my goodness.

if you're sitting on this pitch, that can go a long way. 75 miles per hour. >> karl: the guy they want up in this situation, springer. he did the exact thing you wanted him to do on the prior pitch -- identified, saw, swung, and he missed badly. >> eduardo: i mean, in the back of your mind, you're thinking, i don't want to be surprised with the fastball, but sergio romo is going to get through this inning with his number one pitch, and the number one for him is the slider. again, we saw carlos correa get jammed on a 3-1 pitch. most likely sitting slider, quick enough to catch up to it. >> karl: 1-2 to springer. george. and that's at the shortstop. the forceout dropped! and the twins stay alive because there was no advance from the runner at third. the bases will loaded. the twins nearly blew it.

should have been out of the inning. >> eduardo: jorge polanco got a little comfortable right here. did not put his feet in position. underarmed the -- side armed the throw. just off balance throw. and luis arraez could not do anything but just try to stop it. again, he could have put himself in position. you don't even see carlos correa in the picture on this one. >> karl: and gurriel had no chance to move any further than third. and now you have altuve. with the bases loaded and a tie game in the ninth, and two down. and ball one. >> eduardo: guys, i have to advantage altuve on this unwork just because this is a guy that will sit on a pitch, and he'll sit slider. sergio romo has to be able to

execute well with that slider, locate it well, pressure on romo. >> tim: we have missed the crowd so much this year, the energy and the atmosphere. this is a perfect example. this place would be crazy right now if there were fans in the stands. >> karl: without question. altuve would have had an opportunity had gurriel not run himself into the third out a few innings ago, took the bat out of altuve's hands. he now has the bat in his hands and a tie game with two outs in the top of the ninth and the wdonaloaded. out, not gurriel. inside, 2-1. >> eduardo: just a show-me pitch. that just tells you how much confidence he has a that pitch right there.

>> karl: jose altuve is 1 for 5 in his career with the based loaded in the postseason. will the error hurt the twins? that's a good pitch. 2-2. >> tim: they made 20 errors all season -- fewest in the american league. and at a time when this of to make that out, they made a mistake. now let's see if hall altuve cae them pay. slider, eddie, 2-2? >> eduardo: yeah, and you just saw altuve take a fastball right there outside corner. he's been sitting on it. >> karl: wow. 3-2 now for romo. >> tim: and everybody's running. >> eduardo: and everybody at home should be standing right

now, because that's what the crowd could be doing here at target field. 3-2, slider's coming, fellas. >> karl: if it makes you feel any better i'm on my feet, eddie. >> eduardo: i'm on mine, too. >> karl: one of baseball's best hitters over the last four years, jose altuve. and he walked him, and the run comes in. and the astros, on a bases loaded walk, lead it 2-1 in the ninth. >> eduardo: he went with the fastball. that's the one pitch that he does not have good control over. and that's the one he's not going to sleep well. the twins aren't able to come back in the bottom of the ninth inning. fastball up in the zone.

altuve, give him credit, that's a pitch that he usually swings at. earlier this season. he's had the discipline twice to walk twice in this game. probably the biggest walk of his career. >> tim: high fastballs to altuve. you're right, eddie, he laid off of them, and now he's got them a run. >> karl: brought in sergio romo. he gave up two singlings and then got two outs, and then there was a huge airer made by jorge polanco. which allowed the bases to stay loaded after the altuve walk it's a houston 2-1 lead. introducing wendy's new pretzel bacon pub cheeseburger. nothing willfrom the pretzel bun, and beer cheese. not even all the comments on the pic you posted - of your pretzel bacon pub cheeseburger. download the app to order ahead and get wendy's rewards.

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the error from shortstop jorge polanco. they had a forced out at second. he threw it wide and allowed the inning to continue and then a based loaded walk. they have 16 straight postseason games, which is the major league record, and now they'll find themselves on the short end of a 2-1 game. still based loaded. caleb thielbar into the game for minnesota. >> tim: undrafted free agent. didn't pitch in the big leagues for five years. was going to become a pitching coach in college. has had a very nice season asdea in the a post season game. brantley swings at the first pitch and fouls it away. >> tim: just think how the narrative will change on this series if it ends this way. people are going to be talking about, the twins can't win a post season game and the astros

experience came in handy. amazing howing on a short series, things can change so quickly. >> karl: i'll be talking about framber valdez and the error. whew. slow breaking ball at 67 miles per hour in there are for a str >> eduardo: that's tough when you're geared up for the fastball or at least the sweeping slider with a 67-mile-per-hour pitch. shades of zack greinke earlier this afternoon. he threw two of those same velocity. >> karl: close. 1-2. "k" zone did have it getting a

little bit of that strike zone. ohio state ton bullpen is empty. looks like this is framber valdez's game to win. another breaking ball. brantley delivers that many one down in front of buxton. correa's going to come in to score. and so is springer and just like that, the uston asave a ninty, hind in the count. >> eduardo: showed him the curveball early on. guy like michael brantley, they don't care if it's lefties or righties on the mound. they store that pitch in the back of your mind. he waited on it.

nothing byron buxton can do. as michael brantley gets his bench excited. >> karl: and now you start to see some emotion from the astros. as bregman bats with runners at first and third. caleb thielbar held left-handers to a .158 average -- 3 for 19. >> tim: that's a pretty good left-handed hitter he gave up a hit to, there. beautiful job staying back on that. >> karl: 0-2. >> eduardo: rocco bar dell la and wes johnson they're having a conversation. but you press the right buttons, you do everything right, but when your defense does not execute, that's when everything goes wrong that many play with

jorge polanco, lazy on his feet, ended up throwing it away. an easy play, 6-4 force out, ends up costing them in a big way. >> karl: so this game could come down to the play that bregman made and the play that polanco didn't make. might have turned this whole game. >> karl: and bregman's play was in the first inning. polanco's was in the ninth inning. a huge walk in this inning to jose altuve, who's now at third base. and, you know, you never know what's going to cause it, but maybe the astros after winning their first postseason game will start to ask, why not us?

>> eduardo: think about it, karl, two teams in this wild card that finishes the season two games under opportunity are dusty baker's team and the milwaukee brewers. >> karl: yep.

keep looking a at those twins left to right in the front row. that covers a lot of twins right there. >> karl: is that rod carew up in third row? >> tim: yeah, love it. >> eduardo: you'd be in the first, but they're social distancing. >> karl: rocco baldelli made the

point, and you understand it, not a lot of guys have been here for the 16 playoff losses, but -- >> tim: we keep bringing it up. how could they not hear it at least? 2-2 breaking ball. bregman, slow roller. fielded and thrown cleanly to second. that one went well. this one did not. and this one may decide the game. po polanco with a good throw. they had the out. instead, everybody was safe. led to a based load walk for al and the lead for the astros. then it was michael brantley who delivered two more. i'm up, i'm up!" "five more minutes." "break me off a piece of that kit kat bar!"

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we gngeto s t m of the ninth and yaat easrn t espn. aaron judge in the batter's box. the yankees are healthy again, which is where aaron boone wanted them. pitching matchup there, bieber and cole. zack greinke and framber valdez. look at the numbers in the right-hand column. four innings and no hits, no earn earned runs. he has been great. fit reliever in history with four no-hit innings and pedro martinez the last to do phi innings. in fact, he went six innings with no hits.alz trng to la ts plane and get the last three outs. that's a good start at eddie rosario swings and misses. >> tim: this is so unusual that any pitcher would hit five innings. even though he's a starter coming in in relief.

closer always comes in in the ninth to end this game and it looks like they're going let this kid finish. >> eduardo: and they should. one of the big reasons also is wi three game seri,odays off if game -- to have ryan pressley, if needed tomorrow and also the next day, he's thrown become to back days with three days in a row, something that presley has not done this year yet. >> karl: broken bat. that's a fair ball. rosario didn't even leave the box. twins, one down. >> tim: eduardo, this is so similar to what you were talking about request charlie moreton in the world series in 2017. they were weren't going pitch him the final four innings. they said, let's leave him in. they watched the game and realized, this is valdez at his best. let's leave >> eduardo: yeah. rosario not happy at all, and

valdez has been able to do that to all of these players with that curveball. that's a high spin rate curveball, and not only to the mince twins, but the outings he's had this season has given dusty baker the confidence to be able to keep him out there. >> karl: sano keeps it alive with one down, one aboard. and the first hit allowed by framber valdez. looks like the astros do have ryan pressly up. >> eduardo: yeah. they'll give hip one more hitter. i'm dusty baker, you give him one more hitter and after that,

you can get -- if he does not get polanco then you can go get him. let's see if that's what they do. >> karl: ball one to jorge polanco. game one, best of three. you see toronto and tampa bay under way, 0-0 there in the third. misses down again. >> tim: astudillo on deck, which means if he gets to bat here they will have used their four catchers in this game.

>> eduardo: good take right there. you don't see a lot of hitters doing that. it's a 4-1 game. your job is just try to get on base. to get that tying run at the plate. >> karl: polanco's going to keep it alive. this was in front of reddick and framber valdez grimaces, as he is off the mound, knowing what this is likely going to mean for him. >> eduardo: yeah. he's done. and if you look at the last two hits the minnesota twins were able to get, both by sano and polanco -- opposite field hitting and they were both able to hit the fastball the other way. that's a pitch that's patented

to try to get to you roll over for the double play. give a lot of credit to polanco right there, driving it. this would call on -- as soon astudillo as gets his name in, most likely dusty baker will go to the mound. >> karl: willians astudillo is going to pinch-hit for the twins. we're waiting to see if dusty baker is going to come out of that dugout for the astros. he hasn't yet made that move. >> eduardo: he's going to right. nohe's >> karl: ryan pressly is warm in

the bullpen. >> eduardo: and we saw astudillo looking in also at the dugout at dusty baker, thinking that he was going to get a pinch hitter. this motivates you as a pinch hitter, willians astudillo saying, okay, no respect. you're not bringing in the righty. >> karl: astudillo was added to the roster on monday, the post season roster. he had been at the alter gnat site. got a chance to tie it. swings at the first pitch, and bregman ends it with a double play. astudillo grounds out. dusty takes a chance and leaves framber valdez in, and it works beautifully. the houston astros go into minnesota and take the best home field advantage in the year in which there were no fans and beat them at home. >>im: a b went and won a great road team in a critical game one. >> karl: if you're going chalk one up to analytics give that front office credit for pulling greinke when they did.

a big smile on the face of the lefty, framber valdez. for eduardo perez, tim kurkjian and our entireew, i'ml ravech. trios grab a 1-0 lead, and win we'll get you the latest on the glass fire and weather conditions. and take you live to the meadowwood estate, time for extensive damage including the destruction of a