history. all right, it was an odd weekend for the yankees. they got no hits for the astros on saturday. 16 and a third innings without a hit. carlos stanton hitting the hitless streak with a solo home run. yankee stadium letting out a sigh of relief. aaron judge, his second walk off in the series. they go from no hit to winning the game 6-3. all right, we had a brawl in baseball on sunday between the mariners and the rangers. this came after mike trout and the angels were really mad after he was nearly hit in the head on saturday. the angels actually changed starting pitchers to have lance who is a reliever start on sunday. a lot of punches thrown in this melee. six managers were ejected. winger actually gave the double bird to the fans on the way out. then after all the melee was
for this story. quite the turnaround for the houston astros. sex outs away from going down 3-1 to the boston red sox in game 4. jose altuve coming through in the clutch. solo home run in the eighth inning tied this up at two. at the top of the ninth, nathan thinks he gets a strike to end the inning, but it s called a ball. rbi single to center. flood gates open from there. astros score seven runs with two outs in the ninth. they won 9-2 to end the series. game five today at 5:00 eastern. dodgers, meanwhile, looking to avoid a 3-0 deficit to the braves. they were in a world of trouble. down 5-2 montana eighth. two on for cody bellinger. he blasted a three-run home run to tie the game.
morning joe starts right now. two down in the eighth. freddie freeman. brewers in a shift. fly ball to center field. cade going back. at the wall, freddie freeman left the yard and put the braves on top in the bottom of the eighth! unbelievable. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, october the 13th. willie, man, one of the most beloved guys in the game. he takes the braves to an unlikely place. i mean, the brewers throughout the year, everybody kept saying, watch the brewers. they re a great team. they are. but man, freddie freeman finishing them off with a walk-off. great to see atlanta rocking again as it was last night. freddie freeman, the all star, the leader of the team, the face of the franchise, bottom of the eighth hits the solo home run. lock it down in the ninth.
him. but, in fact, there s a guy on second base stealing signs for a catcher and setting up video equipment in the out field to replay it back. that s different. but the home run race between mcguire and sosa, he said, i m better than those guys. he joined, unfortunately, the steroid club. the same could be said in a different way for the astros. they re fundamentally a great team, as they re proving again this year, but they did, it s proven, not speculation, they did cheat for a couple of years. i don t want to go too deep here, but i m going to the 1950s. 1954, mike. even the shot heard around the world, the most famous home run probably in the history of baseball, bobby thompson, chances are very good that he cheated on that. he got a signal from center
of the games that went down yesterday? the fact we re playing the houston astros. as discussed, this is a moment, a rare moment now, where i think the boston red sox have become america s team yet again. where the nation will be united behind amen. us against a common foe, the houston astros. their reputation is stained by a cheating scandal that had nothing to do with alex cora, the current manager of the red sox. nothing. make that very clear. yeah, the sentimental favorite. mike barnicle, i m sure people come up to you on the street and said, we re with you, mike, with lemire, with joe. hasn t happened yet? hopefully it will. i think it ll be a great series. we re the underdog. astros lineup, top to bottom, is terrific. sox seem to have a little something going on right now. they re focused. alex cora has never extremely focused. the other night with the grand slam home run, it was 5-2. suddenly, just like that, alex