The Rays took a 2-0 series lead in the most dramatic fashion when pinch-hitter Eric Titcombe took a Luis Balladares pitch into the LF seats with a man on to give the Rays a 4-3 walk-off win at Publix Park. The Rays overcame a 3-0 deficit and steadily clawed back. Josh Carsello was his usual all-over-the-place self but Mike Wherry snapped back from a few shaky outings in earlier rounds to whiff 8 over 4 innings in relief, his longest outing of the year but so effective that he stayed in, although he missed getting the win by one out when he gave way to Tim Siqueiros. Jon Sorrano will get the ball at Wrigley in Game 3, moving ahead of the ineffective-this-postseason Josh Hanna, so if somehow we end up in a Game 7 it's Soranno pitching instead of Hanna.
(*Note: The original version of this game I played out batter-by-batter had the Rays taking a 4-1 lead into the top of the 9th when OOTP22 crashed on me, the first time that's happened mid-game with the new version. As a result I had no patience to play it out batter-by-batter again so I had to auto-play it a couple of times before getting this similar outcome, which explains why the win probability chart doesn't line up with the box).