In the first inning, Bryce Harper warmed up the game with a superb two-run homer, deep into right field, exactly 402 feet out, on a slider by star starter Lance McCullers Jr.
With the score of 2-0, Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia became a lunatic asylum and the forecasts, which gave Houston the favorite to win this third game of the final, began to waver.
An innings later, in the second, the hosts again scored a pair of runs, once again on four-corner drives, pulled by Alec Bohm and Brandon Marsh, who came to the Phillies mid-season in from the Los Angeles Angels. .
Curiously, it should be noted that the Bohm circuit was the thousandth in the history of the Major League World Series.
If the red bats were boiling, equally superlative was Phillies left-handed starter Venezuelan Ranger Suárez, who kept the Astros’ mighty artillery in a fist until the end of the fifth inning.
At that point, after two outs, Suárez complicated life by walking Chas McCormick and allowing Martín Maldonado’s single, however, he managed to grow against José Altuve, the 2017 American League Most Valuable Player. , after dominating him on a false volley at first base.
After that hot flash, the red firewood continued into the final fifth inning, when Kyle Schwarber hit a one-mile, 443-foot home run into the same center field, with a teammate on base, to lift the 6-0 challenge, seen for sentencing.
Rys Hoskins followed suit with an electrifying line beyond the left field fences, making it 7-0 on the scoreboard and sparking a blast from McCullers, who suffered the biggest playoff loss of his career.
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The rest was taken care of by the Phillies’ relievers. Connor Brogdon first retired the sixth without a problem, ahead of the powerful side of the rival lot; then Kyle Gibson, Nick Nelson and Andrew Bellatti combined to kick off the final third, sealing the grout with five hands and with it victory.
Credit for the success went to Suárez’s service record, while McCullers Jr. charged the backhand.
With this victory on Tuesday, the Phillies forced the Astros to win three of the last four games of the confrontation, if among their claims is still to be crowned for the second time in history and the first since 2017.
Philadelphia, seeking the throne for the third time after winning titles in 1980 and 2008, moved within two wins of one of the most unexpected and surprising coronations of all time.
The three games of this World Series ended 6-5 and 7-0 for the Phillies, and 5-2 for Houston.
For tomorrow, in the fourth game of the series, agreed to the best of seven, the duel between right-handers Aaron Nola for the locals and Cristian Javier for the Astros is scheduled, on the same stage, at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.
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