Late Homers Have Atlanta on the Cusp of a Championship
The New York Times
Atlanta shocked Houston with back-to-back homers in the seventh inning, putting the team one win from its first World Series title since 1995.
ATLANTA — Dansby Swanson held his right arm in the air as he floated around the bases. Excitement had been slowly building through the night as a sleepy Atlanta Braves lineup started to wake up. But after Swanson’s game-tying home run clanked off the top of the right field wall in the bottom of the seventh inning of Game 4 of the World Series, Truist Park erupted.
Moments later, Jorge Soler drilled a pinch-hit go-ahead home run just over the left field wall and the merriment doubled. Players jumped out of the home dugout. Swanson, who grew up a Braves fan outside of Atlanta, screamed, clapped and waved his arms as he watched Soler run. After failing to get a runner into scoring position for most of the game, suddenly Atlanta was one win away from a title.
Trailing most of Saturday, Atlanta snatched a 3-2 victory from the Houston Astros and took a three-games-to-one lead in the best-of-seven series. Atlanta entered the postseason with the fewest wins (88) of any of the 10 teams in the playoffs and is now one win away from claiming its first World Series title since 1995.
