Neither team particularly wanted to name a starting pitcher. But someone will have to take the mound for each club in Game 4.
With all that came afterward — ’s homer, ’s two, robbing a homer, stealing a run — it’s easy to forget the sequence that awakened the in Game 3 of the ALCS. It began with a literal back-foot breaking ball. led off the second inning against and fell behind 0-2 before Scherzer threw a waste pitch so far inside that it went behind Alvarez’s front foot and hit him flush on the back foot. Scherzer got an out, then gifted a walk to , who entered the game batting .091 this postseason.
If the Rangers look dialed in early against Urquidy, manager Dusty Baker won’t have long to let his starter work things out. Urquidy typically survives more on soft contact than swings and misses. He’s going up against a ballclub barreling a lot of baseballs lately, and the Rangers aren’t nearly as strikeout-prone as the Twins were. Urquidy didn’t face Texas in the 2023 regular season, but he owns a 2.82 ERA in seven career starts against them.
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