Astros' George Springer gets redemption in grand fashion

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One of the beauties of all sports is a redemptive storyline. George Springer authored one of Houston’s all-time redeeming baseball tales on Sunday night in Game 5 of the World Series, helping shove the Astros to within one victory of their first Series triumph in franchise history.Springer’s solo home run in the bottom of the seventh tied the pivotal contest against the Dodgers https://www.astrosfansgear.com/Astros_Jandel_Gustave_Jersey-317, the start of an inning in which the Astros scored four runs in their eventual 13-12 10-inning victory, a thriller capped by Alex Bregman’s game-winning RBI single that scored pinch-runner Derek Fisher from second. Minutes earlier, Springer’s then-storyline was much more salacious he was shaping up as a calamitous goat in the back-and-forth game, primarily because sometimes he doesn’t know when not to hustle. Playing center field in the top of the seventh, he dove for a line drive off the bat of Cody Bellinger that didn’t call for a dive, and Bellinger wound up with a triple instead of a single, after the ball rolled past a headfirst-sliding Springer.More importantly on the play, Kike Hernandez scored from first, lifting the Dodgers to a short-lived 8-7 lead. Short-lived because Springer, who leaned on his knees and lowered and shook his head after misplaying the triple, led off the bottom of the seventh. On the first pitch Springer crushed a 448-foot home run to left field on a 95-mph offering from Brandon Morrow, tying the game at 8-8 and sparking yet another Astros rally in a Series loaded with them from both sides. Bregman then singled, and Jose Altuve followed with a double scoring Bregman. Carlos Correa then capped the sudden onslaught with his own home run, and the two-run shot lifted the Astros to an 11-8 lead, in a crazy contest that was far from over. “George Springer” filled up timelines across the Twitter nation, with a national baseball writer dubbing him a “freaking monster” for his ability and focus to crush a ball following a potential crushing play.Springer finished the game 2 for 3 with three walks and one RBI, with that “one” giving the Astros new life following his ill-timed dive. Few could fault Springer for hustling as he typically does but his judgment was in serious question following the premature leap.Springer was the 11th overall selection of the 2011 draft to the Astros, after starring at the University of Connecticut https://www.astrosfansgear.com/Astros_Justin_Verlander_Jersey-428. Springer made his major-league debut with the Astros in April 2014, and hasn’t looked back until helplessly watching the ball roll behind him in the seventh inning while sprawled on the grass against the Dodgers.As for Sunday night, the Astros also needed help from Brian McCann’s solo home run in the bottom of the eighth, thanks to Los Angeles scoring three in the top of the ninth to keep fans on the edge of their seats through an extra inning.Three innings prior to the finish, Springer’s wild dive had lifted the fans out of their seats, but he helped script another happy ending for a franchise that prior to this season had never won a World Series game.

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