The Padres and the Phillies both advanced to the NLCS on Saturday night, while an 18th-inning home run gave the Astros a sweep over the Mariners, sending them to the ALCS. Here's a rundown of Saturday night's games:
The Padres and the Phillies both advanced to the NLCS on Saturday night, while an 18th-inning home run gave the Astros a sweep over the Mariners, sending them to the ALCS. , the Guardians topped the Yankees 6-5 with a walkoff home run in the 9th and now lead the series 2-1. Jeremy Peña and the Houston Astros just kept going. Scoreless inning after scoreless inning, as day turned into night in front of a frenzied crowd in Seattle.
The 18 innings matched the longest game in playoff history and the 6 hours, 22 minutes was the third-longest in time."Man, that was a long game. But you still got to lock in, try to put together good at-bats," Peña said."I was just trying to stay inside the baseball, drove it in the gap." After 21 years, Seattle fans welcomed playoff baseball back inside T-Mobile Park. They got their money's worth, and then some.
Unlike baseball's regular season, there is no automatic runner when playoff games go to extra innings. Seattle's bullpen was nearly just as good. After rookie George Kirby threw seven innings, nine Mariners relievers combined for 11 innings of five-hit ball. Altuve joined Xander Bogaerts in Game 3 of 2018 World Series versus the Dodgers as only players to go 0 for 8 or worse in a postseason game. But Houston's other pieces came through, none bigger than its young shortstop who took on a prominent role after Carlos Correa departed in free agency.
Jake Cronenworth hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with two outs in the seventh inning and San Diego rallied past the Dodgers 5-3 Saturday night to advance to the NL Championship Series for the first time since 1998. "I know the job's not done, we've got a lot of baseball ahead of us still, but this is something that needs to be celebrated," Musgrove said."Those guys handed it to us all year long and when it came down to it and we needed to win ballgames we found ways to do it."
The Padres had lost nine straight series to the Dodgers before winning the one that mattered the most. It was a soul-crushing ending for the Dodgers after the best regular-season record in club history and manager Dave Roberts' prediction during spring training that they'd win the World Series. After left-hander Tyler Anderson stymied the Padres through five scoreless innings, San Diego broke through against the Dodgers' bullpen in the seventh.
Will Smith hit a sacrifice fly against Steven Wilson with the bases loaded in the seventh for a 3-0 lead, but winning pitcher Tim Hill prevented further damage. Then it was time for the Phillies to sing:"I'm going going, back back, to Cali Cali!" they shouted in unison to the Notorious B.I.G. classic. That's right, the next stop for the Fightins is a trip West to the NLCS, as a team that looked completely lost in May suddenly looks every bit like a World Series contender in October.
Atlanta's loss meant Major League Baseball hasn't had a repeat champ since the New York Yankees won three straight from 1998-2000. After a 2-0 sweep of NL Central champion St. Louis in MLB's newly created wild-card round, the Phillies used a dose of Marsh Madness to keep the party rolling in October. Braves starter Charlie Morton was hit on his pitching elbow by Alec Bohm's single traveling 71.9 mph to lead off the inning. After being checked, Morton allowed a single to Jean Segura and hung a 2-2 curveball that the No. 9 hitter Marsh launched deep into the right field seats for a 3-0 lead.
With that, it was bedlam inside the park, as a sellout crowd of 45,660 was deliriously cheering, every sense tingling that there wasn't going to be a Game 5.Harper hit a solo homer in the eighth, the second of the series for the reigning NL MVP. The Phillies' run of five straight postseason appearances -- that included the 2009 NL pennant and a loss in the 2010 NLCS to San Francisco -- stretched from 2007 to 2011 until the franchise was saddled with so many dry years without hope.
"We've seen it in two series so far from this guy," Guardians starter Triston McKenzie said."He comes up in the 15th inning and hits a home run, has a game-winning hit in another game, has the hit tonight.Oscar Gonzalez #39 of the Cleveland Guardians celebrates with his team after hitting a two run single during the ninth inning against the New York Yankees in game three of the American League Division Series at Progressive Field on October 15, 2022 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Before Cleveland's comeback, the Yankees were 167-0 in the postseason when entering the ninth inning with a multiple-run lead. "It's incredible," Gonzalez said."I didn't know about that stat, and I just thank God for that and what makes it more special is it's from another fellow countryman." Before homering a week ago, Gonzalez broke his belt sliding into second base and had to borrow first base coach Sandy Alomar's belt before play resumed. It's become a good luck charm for Gonzalez, who is following Alomar, a postseason hero in 1997 when Cleveland eliminated the Yankees in the Division Series.The Yankees are in trouble.
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