This was a wild game. Chris Sale and Carlos Carrasco were the pitchers and a pitching duel was expected. No one expected what happened. Sale apparently has issues with the Indians and they rocked him for seven runs in five innings. Meanwhile, Carrasco gave up five in 1.2 innings. Boston was in the lead going into the top of the ninth, but Kimbrel gave up two runs and the Indians were in the lead. It came down to Christian Vazquez with two runners on, and he delivered the game-winning home run. Vazquez does not get a lot of cards, so a Topps Now card was welcome.
Over The Monster recently wrote an article showing that while Vazquez doesn't hit a lot of homers, when he does they are almost always in clutch situations. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he ended up a postseason hero.
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