Game One: Astros 5, Rays 4
WP: Reuss (1-0)
LP: Shields (0-1)
Save: J Crawford (1)
HR: Wynn (1), Cedeno (1)
Game Two: Astros 4, Rays 2
WP: Roberts (1-0)
LP: Garza (0-1)
Save: J Crawford (2)
HR: Zahn (1), Metzger (1)
Game Three: Rays 6, Astros 2
WP: Niemann (1-0)
LP: Wilson (0-1)
HR: B Upton (1)
Game Four: Rays 5, Astros 1
WP: Price (1-0)
LP: K Forsch (0-1)
HR: Pena (1)
Game Five: Rays 14, Astros 6
WP: Shields (1-1)
LP: Reuss (1-1)
HR: Crawford (1), Navarro (1)
Game Six: Astros 5, Rays 4
WP: Roberts (2-0)
LP: Choate (0-1)
Save: J Crawford (3)
HR: L May (1)
Game Seven: Astros 6, Rays 3
WP: Wilson (1-1)
LP: Niemann (1-1)
Save: J Crawford (4)
HR: Pena 2 (3), Wynn (2)
The visitors won every game of the all-dome series, and Jim Crawford got the final out in all four of Houston's victories. Three of his saves were one-batter appearances.
Jim Wynn hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning of Game One in Tropicana Field, and Cesar Cedeno added a solo shot in the ninth for a vital insurance run. Jerry Reuss went 8.6 innings for the win. After Reuss and Cecil Upshaw allowed back-to-back doubles in the bottom of the ninth to allow the Rays to pull within a run, Jim Crawford entered to strike out Carl Crawford to end the game.
Roger Metzger hit an unlikely homer to cap a three-run rally in the second inning of Game Two, and Dave Roberts made the early support stand up. He allowed one run on five hits in seven innings. Jim Ray got five outs befor allowing two hits and a run in the ninth; once again, Jim Crawford entered to retire Carl Crawford for the final out, this time on a fly to center.
The series moved to the Astrodome and 1973 for Game Three, and the Rays turned it around. Jeff Niemann allowed 10 hits in 5.1 innings, but the Astros only got two runs out of all that action. B.J. Upton hit a two-run homer in the fourth, and Tampa Bay took advantage of three Houston errors to score three unearned runs.
David Price held the Astros hitless for eight innings in Game Four. The lefty walked four and struck out two. Meanwhile, Jason Bartlett drove in three runs with a single and a double and Gregg Zahn went 3-for-3 with a walk, a double and two runs scored. Cedeno led off the ninth with a infield single and thowing error; Price was immediately pulled for Russ Springer, who allowed a double to Lee May that plated Cedeno for the only Houston run.
The Rays took the series lead in Game Five, pounding Jerry Reuss for seven runs in the fourth inning. The first nine hitters reached in that inning on five singles, a double, a homer, a walk and an error. Carl Crawford had four hits, including a three-run homer, and scored three times.
That sent the series back to St. Petersburg, where Game Six was time for a change. The Rays scored four times in the first two innings, but Dave Roberts kept them off the scoreboard after that. Lee May drove in three runs, the last one putting the Astros ahead in the seventh. Jim Crawford again got the last out against a lefty hitter, this time getting Carlos Pena on a fly to right with the tying run on.
That sent the series to Game Seven. Pena homered in each of his first two at-bats against Don Wilson, but the fireballing righty didn't allow another run until the eighth. Wynn homered in the first off Niemann, Bob Gallagher capped a run of singles with an RBI knock in the fourth to tie the game, Lee May singled home the go-ahead run in the fifth and Doug Rader homered in the eighth before the Astros pieced together a two-run ninth on two walks, a hit batter, a stolen base, a single and an error. Jim Crawford got the last six outs for his fourth save.
Player availability: Crawford should not pitch more than an inning in Game One
Projected rotation: Reuss-Forsch-Roberts-Wilson-(Reuss)-(Forsch)-(Roberts)
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