Houston’s right-hander delivers the performance many expected out of his Rangers counterpart, Scherzer, and brings the Astros back into the ALCS.
Cristian Javier didn't allow a hit in his first four innings and worked 5 2/3 Wednesday night, allowing just three hits in the Astros' 8-5 win in Game 3 of the ALCS. ARLINGTON, Tex. — A day before Houston Astros starter Cristian Javier stepped on the mound for Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, he stood in the back of the media room at Globe Life Field and watched as battery mate Martín Maldonado answered questions.
Javier’s pulse barely quickened during his 5⅔ innings Wednesday night. He allowed just three hits in Houston’s 8-5 win over the Texas Rangers that pulled the defending champions back into the ALCS. Game 4 is Thursday. In that series 12 years ago, Max Scherzer was in a Detroit Tigers uniform and the Rangers beat him en route to the World Series. Twelve years later, Scherzer was in a Rangers uniform and making his first start of this postseason.. Scherzer went on the injured list Sept. 12 with a low-grade strain of his teres major muscle. The injury was expected to end his season. Yet Scherzer found a way to work himself back in time for Game 3 of this series.
“He’s going to be a little rusty. It’s been a month since he’s been out there,” Rangers Manager Bruce Bochy said. “But overall I was really pleased with the stuff. It’s only going to get better with him. But just made some mistakes there. They got the big two-out hit early, the wild pitch and then the two-out hit. He was battling out there. He’s fine. Feels good. And that’s the good news.”
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