Barela to the rescue...
Luis Barela has laid claim to having the greatest postseason ever as not only did his two homers provide all five Rays runs in a 5-4 win in Game 5 to put his team up 3-2 in the series, the two homers gave him the MLB single-season playoff record of 11, breaking Cody Bellinger's 9 in 2022 which had been the mark (as well as the real-life record of Randy Arozarena in 2020). Greg Bookhart was excellent but Mel Mejia gave up a 2-run homer in the 8th to let Chicago within a run. However tonight Steve Falcon was up to the task of a multi-inning save and struck out four of the five men he retired in order on only 18 pitches to preserve the Rays' slender lead in the game and in the series. We shift back to Tampa in two days when Dave Rose will have a chance to close it out in front of the home fans.