During our post-game digital coverage of the Astros in the playoffs, former MLB Scout Jeremy Booth talked about that tension-filled eighth inning.
It happened in the bottom of the eighth inning. Astros pitcher Bryan Abreu nailed the Rangers' Adolis García with a fastball in the left arm with a runner on first and a 4-2 Texas lead. It was García’s first at-bat since his sixth-inning three-run home run that gave Texas a 4-2 lead.
Adolis García was hit with a 99-mph fastball on the first pitch after hitting a 3-run HR to take the lead.Yordan Alvarez was seen on the broadcast talking to García while holding him back. García was asked after the game what Alvarez was saying to him. Through a translator, García said that Alvarez was trying to calm him down and told him he didn’t think it was on purpose. He said Alvarez told him to look at him and try to calm down.
As for Rangers’ manager Bruce Bochy, he said,"Who knows what the intentions were,” but also pointed out how García drilled the sixth-inning home run and was then hit by Abreu.The Rangers led 4-2 after García's three-run homer in the sixth off Houston starter Justin Verlander. He took 16 steps up the line as he watched the ball and pounded his chest, and was more than halfway to first when he empathically spiked his bat and started jogging.
The Astros contended they were focused on erasing a two-run deficit in the ninth and wouldn't have wanted to put extra runners on base.
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