The score of 18-4 gave some hope to the visitors but that was quickly silenced with a 42 nd minute try in the second half. A 7 th minute try to the Maroons had their opponents on the backfoot, but they never let it worry them as they went on to score 2 more unanswered tries prior to HT. The meaningful Game 3 outcome was achieved after a commanding 34-10 victory to the Blues in Game 2 last week.
STATE OF ORIGIN GAME 3 FULL
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STATE OF ORIGIN GAME 3 SERIES
Overall, Rodriguez is 1-3 with an 8.53 ERA in six career starts against the Astros.Game 3 in the State of Origin heads up to the cauldron that is Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, for the deciding game of the series on Wednesday night. Rodriguez struggled in two regular-season starts against Houston as he went 0-1 with an 11.57 ERA in 9 1/3 innings. The 28-year-old went winless in two playoff starts against Tampa Bay in the ALDS and is 0-1 with a 7.02 ERA in 10 career postseason games (three starts). In his postseason career, he is 1-1 with a 2.81 ERA in eight appearances (four starts).īoston counters with left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez (0-1, 5.40 ERA). Urquidy went 8-3 with a 3.62 ERA over 20 starts in the regular season. The 26-year-old had been in line to start Game 4 of the team’s AL Division Series against the Chicago White Sox before it was rained out. Houston right-hander Jose Urquidy is set to make his postseason debut in a critical spot as he starts Game 3. Those can be crucial as we move forward in the series.” He exited after serving up the grand slam to Martinez, leaving potential Game 4 starter Jake Odorizzi to pitch in a surprise mop-up role. Yuli Gurriel (2-for-4, three RBIs) and pinch hitter Jason Castro (1-for-1) each clubbed solo homers in the Game 2 defeat.Īlready without injured ace Lance McCullers Jr., the Astros’ rotation took another blow in the form of an injury to Game 2 starter Luis Garcia. “We won the seventh, eighth and ninth, but those two innings in the beginning - that’s a tremendous mountain to climb.”Ĭarlos Correa, who was the Game 1 hero with an emphatic tiebreaking solo homer in the seventh, finished 1-for-4 with a strikeout on Saturday. “We’ve got to try to figure it out,” Houston manager Dusty Baker said. Houston also scored five runs in its series-opening 5-4 win over Boston in Game 1 Friday. The Astros fought back out of a 9-0 hole on Saturday to make it a four-run game after scoring three in the fourth and two in the ninth. “I guess (I’m) feeling good and the importance of the game is allowing me to stay focused and stay locked in.” “I don’t know (what’s been different for me),” Hernandez told FS1 in a postgame interview. He has already matched Todd Walker (2003) and David Ortiz (20) for the club record for home runs in a single postseason. 242 hitter, Hernandez has an MLB-record 15 hits over his last five playoff games and became the first Red Sox batter to homer five times in five postseason games. “I think offensively we feel like we can score against them.”īoston also got a fourth-inning solo homer from Enrique Hernandez, who continued his torrid month of October with a 2-for-4 performance to make him 16-for-32 (.500) with five home runs and nine RBIs through seven postseason games.Ī career. “I think we like where we’re at,” Red Sox reliever Adam Ottavino said Sunday. Martinez and Devers became the first pair of teammates in postseason history to hit grand slams in the same game, doing so in the first and second innings respectively of Boston’s decisive 9-5 win in Game 2 on Saturday at Houston. Now the Red Sox will return home to Fenway Park with momentum on their side as they host the Astros for a pivotal Game 3 in their best-of-seven showdown on Monday night. Martinez and Rafael Devers put on a grand display of power on Saturday to help the Boston Red Sox even their American League Championship Series with the Houston Astros at one game apiece.