Lance McCullers Jr. made dubious World Series history by allowing five homers in Game 3 on Tuesday.
It was slightly over a week ago when Lance McCullers Jr. stood amidst a party inside Yankee Stadium, featuring loud music players drinking various beers from the ALCS trophy and other players dancing while holding brooms to signify a dominant sweep of the Yankees.
For McCullers it was sort of a validation about the Astros being able to make a fourth World Series and make their latest appearance after moving past their 2017 cheating scandal that got uncovered in the weeks following their seven-game loss to the Washington Nationals in a fluky series where the home team lost every time.
“A lot has transpired over the last few years,” he said after midnight on Oct. 24 “A lot has been said but there’s not a lot to say anymore man. We keep coming here. We keep facing the best of the best and we keep winning. When everything happened a few years ago, we knew the one thing that we could do is we could win, and we could win and win a lot. I understand people are still not going to like us. They’re going to boo us but at some point, you have to respect what we’re doing. »
Perhaps now you have to respect what the Phillies are doing, especially when they created a fluky situation of hitting five homers off McCullers in Game 3 of the World Series on Tuesday.
McCullers is the answer to the question of the trivia question of who threw 24 straight curveballs to beat the Yankees in Game 7 in 2017. Now he is the answer to the question of who the first pitcher is to allow five homers in a World Series game and the first to do so in any postseason game.
McCullers allowed a two-run homer to Bryce Harper, who as he continues this run it’s fair to wonder why the Yankees did not sign him.
