Game 5 of the NLCS is Saturday at 8:07 p.m. ET.
PHOENIX — Eight days before made his big-league debut, in May of 2010, a boy in Chicago celebrated his 10th birthday. grew up around baseball. His father, Allen, spent two decades on the strength and conditioning staff of the . Alek dodged champagne when the White Sox won the World Series in 2005.
Advertisement The Diamondbacks bucket brigade walked toward the left-field bullpen a few minutes before the first pitch Friday. A dearth of viable starting pitchers left Arizona manager Torey Lovullo to press buttons all evening. The first reliever up was , an All-Star in 2022 who posted a 4.62 ERA in 2023 and surrendered three runs in Game 2. Mantiply yielded a one-out single to Turner, but recovered to nab Turner trying to steal second base.
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