The Los Angeles Dodgers advanced in four games, despite losing one at home.
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Dodgers → advance → home
The Tampa Bay Rays advanced by sweeping the New York Yankees yesterday.
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Rays → advance → Yankees
The Milwaukee Brewers and Padres played four great games, but San Diego ultimately fell short, losing 3-1.
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Diego → play → games
That sets up another National League Championship Series between the Brewers and Dodgers.
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That → set → Brewers
The Rays are awaiting their opponent, and it could be the Chicago White Sox if they win today, or we will get a Game 5 against the Cleveland Guardians on Saturday.
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we → await → Saturday
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page → contain → partners
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that → create → newsroom
The Guardians finally broke out their bats yesterday.
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Guardians → break → bats
In Game 1, they were shut out.
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they → shut → Game
In Game 2, they gave up the lead, but at least they scored three runs.
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they → give → runs
In Game 3, the team put nine runs on the board and spoiled the White Sox playoff home debut.
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team → put → debut
The bigger question for them now is how they can get it done again.
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it → get → them
The Guardians did have a slightly better batting average and slightly more hits than the White Sox in the regular season, so they are technically a better-hitting team, but the White Sox scored 98 more runs than Cleveland.
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Sox → have → Cleveland
They also hit almost 50 fewer homers.
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They → hit → homers
If the Guardians can find a way to keep the White Sox from putting balls over the fence, they might be able to win this one.
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they → find → one
In order to do that, they are sending Parker Messick to the mound.
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they → send → mound
He had a great season, going 12-9 with a 2.56 ERA and a 1.06 WHIP.
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He → have → ERA
He started the first game of the series and lost the game.
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He → start → game
He went 4.1 innings and allowed two earned runs on four hits, two walks, and six strikeouts.
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He → go → hits
In two starts on the road against the Sox this season, Messick allowed four earned runs over 14.2 innings of work.
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Messick → allow → work
The White Sox are still up in the series and really don't have any pressure.
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Sox → have → pressure
If they don't win this game, and if they don't win this series, the season will still be viewed as a massive success.
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season → win → success
If they do fail to win or close this out, most will point to the team being young and inexperienced.
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team → fail → this
However, the real blame probably needs to be placed on the fact that this team has very little pitching.
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team → need → pitching
That is going to be an issue for closing out this series as well.
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That → go → series
Teams get familiar with the arms over the course of a series, and with so many matchups being figured out, hitters start to see tendencies from the pitchers.
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hitters → get → pitchers
The White Sox are opening with Hagen Smith, who has pitched twice already in this series.
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who → open → series
To the point about hitters figuring out tendencies, Smith allowed a run over 0.2 innings of work yesterday.
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Smith → figure → work
That was his first run allowed in the postseason.
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That → allow → postseason
The White Sox will need him to keep a clean sheet and figure out how to stop the Guardians here.
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him → need → Guardians
Messick does give the Guardians an advantage in this game.
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Messick → give → game
Starters only throw for three innings in the postseason, typically.
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Starters → throw → postseason
However, Messick is one who could go a bit longer.
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who → go → ?
The White Sox should be a little more comfortable and settled in today.
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Sox → settle → ?
The team will get another crowd ready to explode, but that might've been a distraction yesterday.
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that → get → ?
I think this game goes over seven runs, and I think the Guardians will push it to five games.
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Guardians → think → games
I'll split a unit on the plays.
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I → split → plays
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