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Old 02-25-2021, 08:55 AM   #698
Art Deco
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October 25, 2030: World Series Game 2



The old joke about the NBA was that there was no need to watch a game until the final couple of minutes since it would be 100-100 or something like that. Well maybe there's no need to watch a Rays game until the 9th inning because they improbably pulled off another improbable walk-off win for the second straight day to take a 2-0 World Series lead. Victor de Jesus' 2-run homer capped a 3-run 9th inning rally to turn a 2-1 loss into a 4-2 win. Once again poor Jack Filby was the victim. Again after getting through the 8th, the 9th was a different story even if he did retire the leadoff man Dayle Jenkins. But Nate Clark went deep into the RF bullpen with his 2nd homer of the postseason to tie the game, Joe Barker singled up the middle, and after de Jesus took a couple of pitches to see if Barker could steal 2nd (he never got a good-enough jump), the Rays rookie RF clubbed a 3-2 Filby offering into almost the same spot as Clark's blast to set off another mob scene. de Jesus has had a big postseason, hitting .318 with 4 HR and 10 RBI in the team's 11 games to date. The comeback wasted a great effort from Adam Hill against the tough Rays lineup as all he allowed was a run in the 6th on back-to-back doubles from Ricky Widmar and Jenkins. But he didn't have much run support thanks to Jon Hayes, who held Columbus to a pair of solo homers from Cristhian Rodriguez and Auggie Ziegler and was quite good overall. Jose Alvarado, who has hardly been used this preseason due to a lack of slender late-inning leads, got Hayes out of a mini-jam in the 8th with a couple of outs but got into his own jam putting men on 1st and 3rd with one out in the 9th before Jordan Diaz got two big strikeouts to keep it at 2-1 and pick up the win. Jack Leiter will get his first start of the postseason in two days in Columbus as the Rays seek to take an overwhelming 3-0 series lead.

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