Astros, Dodgers advance to championship series
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Los Angeles and Houston punched their tickets to the next round of the Major League Baseball playoffs on Monday as the Dodgers swept the Diamondbacks and the Astros eliminated the Red Sox in four games.
The Astros rallied for a wild 5-4 victory over the Red Sox in Boston to win the best-of-five American League division series three games to one.
Astros infielder Alex Bregman belted a game-tying home run off Red Sox ace hurler Chris Sale 鈥 pitching in relief 鈥 to lead off the eighth inning and Josh Reddick delivered a two-out run-batted-in single later in the inning off of Red Sox closing pitcher Craig Kimbrel that put the Astros up 4-3.
Boston gave disheartened, rain-soaked fans at Fenway Park a last glimmer of hope in the bottom of the ninth when Rafael Devers led off the inning with a drive to deep left center field. It bounced off the wall and gave him an inside-the-park home run.
But it wasn鈥檛 enough as the Astros reached a league championship series for the first time since 2005 鈥 when they were in the National League.
In Phoenix, rookie Cody Bellinger homered and drove in two runs, Yu Darvish pitched five strong innings, and the Dodgers swept their way into the NL championship series with a 3-1 victory over the Diamondbacks in Game 3 of their series.
Bellinger and Austin Barnes homered off Arizona pitcher Zack Greinke while Japan鈥檚 Darvish gave up one run and struck out seven in five-plus innings.
Elsewhere, the World Series champions Chicago Cubs gained the upper hand in their NLDS with a 2-1 win over the Washington Nationals.
The victory put the Cubs up 2-1 with a chance to close it out at Wrigley Field on Tuesday.
In the other ALDS game, Aaron Judge capped a four-run second inning with a two-run double as the hosts New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 7-3 to even their series at 2-2.
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