The Boston Red Sox have crushed the baseball for much of the 2021 postseason. But on Tuesday night, it was the Houston Astros who came up with the timely hitting.
Jose Altuve's game-tying homer in the eighth inning and a wild seven-run top of the ninth gave the Astros a 9-2 win in Game 4 of the ALCS, evening the series at two games apiece.
MLBFor the second time in this series, José Altuve has tied the game with a homer. <a href="https://t.co/pohaU4Lril">pic.twitter.com/pohaU4Lril</a>
Alex Cora's decision to use Game 2 starter Nathan Eovaldi in the top of the ninth—alongside Laz Diaz's strike zone behind the plate—will be questioned, and lamented, in Boston for the next two days.