Although Anthony Seigler's passed ball allowed the winning run to score in the 8th, the story of the game baseball fans will be telling their children and grandchildren in the years to come is Bo Angeac's 3-run inside-the-park homer that came immediately after and gave the Rays an 8-4 win and 2-0 lead in the ALCS. A blast to dead center, it hit off the base of the wall and took a funny bounce away from Astro CF Dan Gregory, and Angeac went into hyperdrive around the bases as the HP ump ruled "safe" in a cloud of dust. The Angeac homer and the win papered over what could have been a costly blown game from the bullpen, as Danny Medina and Mike Wherry lost the plot and lost the plate in the 7th to blow a 3-1 lead and let Houston go ahead. Omar Rodriguez's double in the bottom of the inning leveled things again before the excitement of the 8th. Josh Hanna will try to give the Rays an near-insurmountable 3-0 lead in two days' time in Houston.
In the NLCS opener:
An even wilder game than Rays-Astros, this one saw the Cubs think they had it won when they broke a 5-5 tie in the 9th with 3 runs in the 9th after JJ Bleday had tied it up with a homer for the Dodgers in the bottom of the 8th. But Bleday wouldn't be stopped, and he hit a 3-run shot in the bottom of the 9th to tie it up again and send it to extras. There the Cubs finally prevailed on Lewin Diaz's sac fly to take an early series lead.