Rizzo helps Cubs break out of their NLCS slump

He found it in teammate Matt Szczur's bat.

Using the borrowed lumber, Rizzo homered and ended a postseason skid with three RBIs. It's as close to a "must-win" without technically being a "must-win" game when the Los Angeles Dodgers battle the Chicago Cubs! "So I think that for us thinking through it, the best thing for us is to have him pitch Game 6 and have Kenta to go [Thursday]".

Cubs right-hander Kyle Hendricks, the National League ERA leader, will oppose the three-time Cy Young victor and one-time Most Valuable Player.

Roberts said Kershaw was eager to pitch, but Game 5 "isn't a deciding game". Szczur, left off the NLCS roster, didn't mind. Rizzo was 1-for-11 in the series before Wednesday, and Russell was 0-for-9. Now, it appears he'll be pushed back to Saturday's Game 6 and likely would have limited availability if there's a deciding Game 7 the next day.

Now, the Cubs need at least one more big game from their battle-tested ace with 112 postseason innings on his resume.

"It should help their confidence, " Cubs manager Joe Maddon said, "there's no question about that". Had the game developed like Game 3, many fans might have decided the debate would be more entertaining, just as my feed suggested lots of people abandoned the game on Tuesday night.

"I can't get over the top and take a trip to negative town right now just because we've had two tough days", Maddon had said about the losses in Games 2 and 3. Maybe you're just not a fan of staying up that late to watch two adults argue with each other, or you have to get up early for work.

Gonzalez believed his run, which would have put the Dodgers up 1-0 and kept the inning going with two runners on, would have given Urias a cushion in a high-pressure situation.

"I've been struggling this postseason a little bit, but didn't panic", Rizzo said. He was the third consecutive left-hander to start for Los Angeles. Two, they feel they are saving money on health insurance because they think I will have all my expenses covered by Medicare.

After going scoreless in their last 21 innings, the Cubs started to break out of their doldrums with Ben Zobrist's bunt single.

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He took second on Javier Baez's single to left, and Willson Contreras followed with a single to almost the same spot in shallow left, scoring Zobrist. The Cubs lost 1-0.

The most encouraging development was the breakout of Rizzo, who was 2-for-28 before ripping a home run off reliever Pedro Baez to start the fifth.

So! Of the last 10 series to be tied 2-2, the team that won Game 5 won the whole series seventimes.

Or, they just get learned from "Drunk History".

"I want to say World Series, but I don't want to jinx them", said freshman pitcher William Anderson.

Dodgers 1B Adrian Gonzalez was tagged out at home to end the second.

The biggest change in the Cubs' lineup is 39-year-old veteran David Ross starting at catcher instead of Willson Contreras.

"I don't get paid to make decisions", Lester said.

As the National Baseball League Championship series offers Los Angeles Dodgers a seat, the young rookie Julio Urias can shove the fans to the brink of a World Series ground.


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