ATLANTA -- It's almost a cliché to say that a team which falls behind 3-1 in a best-of-seven playoff series has been pushed to the brink. If that's the case, the Houston Astros went to the brink and a little beyond and survived to tell about it.
The Astros bounced back from a first-inning grand slam clubbed by Atlanta's Adam Duvall, beating the Braves 9-5 on Sunday and sending the World Series back to Houston for Game 6 on Tuesday. Atlanta still maintains a 3-2 series lead.
To hear Houston manager Dusty Baker tell it, the Astros' motivation was pretty simple.