MLB World Series game 3 recap and analysis

Race 3 of the World Series was the first in Houston and consequently the first with the designed hitter, a great advantage for the American League teams that have one role, while the Dodgers deprived of Adrian Gonzalez had to deploy the powerful but for nothing, Joc Pederson. The starting pitchers were Lance McCullers for Houston, reduced from a great season where injury has been for some time also the number one of the rotation, possesses a fastball around 94-95 mph, a slider and especially a lethal curveball that uses in addition to 43% of its launches making it one of the first of the MLB in this category. The Dodgers home party was the Japanese ex Rangers Yu Darwish, who in his arsenal can boast a fastball at 95-96 mph, a good mix of cutter and slider and a slow but lethal curveball whose speed is never stable but varies from 65 to 73 mph. Unfortunately for the Japanese he could not find the desired venues especially with his fastball as trying to put too much power on it did not manage to direct them where he wanted and consequently getting always under the ball account and strike failed even to launch with effective his lethal breakballs and the result was catastrophic for him and the Dodgers, 1.2 innings played 4 points awarded and 0 strikeouts. His bats were the low-stakes Houston lineups who in the second inning forced Roberts to take over from the bullpen Kenta Maeda to stop the hemorrhage. The bottom of the second inning was the best of all the series so far for the Astros who debut with a homerun of Yulieski Gurriel managed to send both Reddick and Gattis allowing Gonzalez and McCann to take home two more points with two singles on the exterior and then take home another point with the Bregman sacrifice fly. LA's response did not wait and at the top of the third inning with Pederson and Hernandez on Seager's side he managed to take home a point but not win the RBI as he ran into a double game. As Kenta Maeda came out of the pitch at the bottom of the fifth inning, Evan Gattis scored another point with a single and the next Watson pitcher error that allowed Reddick to get home. The LA again in the following race has tried to reduce the distance from their rivals by putting McCullers in serious trouble that with two runners in the base was replaced by the Hinch manager who in his place sent the long reliever Brad Peacock to the mountain. The former Red Sox and Orioles have given the first point (accused of McCullers) with Yuriel Puig's groundout RBI and another with a crazy throw that allowed Turner to come from the third home base. From then on, the Astros record was unbeatable by winning salvation by knotting the record of its length in a World Series game (3.2 inning) and granting only a baseball with 4 strikeouts.

After Race 3 I think that Roberts is often and too soon to his bullpen that in such a challenging series can have a boomerang effect that is not indifferent, a good result for LA would come back to the Dodgers Stadium under 3-2 and play it in his field but it will not be easy and probably Kershaw if LA wants to have the hope to take home the ring will definitely have to race in race 5 and equally certainly with a shorter rest in a possible race 7 given Darwish's performance. Houston on the other side can not relax but must do everything to not go back to the Dodgers Stadium where a matchup with Hill and Kershaw would be really prohibitive even for a lineup like theirs.