Follow live: Nola, Phillies look to take commanding lead in World Series

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The Philadelphia Phillies are coming disconnected a crippled successful which they perfectly hammered the Houston Astros to instrumentality a 2-1 lead successful the World Series.

Philadelphia jumped connected Lance McCullers Jr. and ne'er fto up successful the 7-0 triumph Tuesday night, mashing 5 location runs disconnected him to necktie a World Series grounds for astir location runs disconnected azygous pitcher successful a Fall Classic. Next, Cristian Javier volition effort to quiescent down Philly's monstrous bats successful Game 4 connected Wednesday nighttime and forestall the Phillies from taking 1 measurement person to 1 of the biggest upsets successful World Series history.

Here are the champion moments from Game 4.

Game 4 lineups and pitchers

Starters: Cristian Javier (11-9, 148.2 IP, 2.54 ERA, 194 K) vs. Aaron Nola (11-13, 205 IP, 3.25 ERA, 235 K)

Houston Astros

1. Jose Altuve (R) 2B (.300 AVG, 28 HR, .921 OPS)
2. Jeremy Pena (R) SS (.253 AVG, 22 HR, .715 OPS)
3. Yordan Alvarez (L) DH (.306 AVG, 37 HR, 1.019 OPS)
4. Alex Bregman (R) 3B (.259 AVG, 23 HR, .820 OPS)
5. Kyle Tucker (L) RF (.257 AVG, 30 HR, .808 OPS)
6. Yuli Gurriel (R) 1B (.242 AVG, 8 HR, .647 OPS)
7. Christian Vasquez (R) C (.274 AVG, 9 HR, .714 OPS)
8. Aledmys Diaz (R) C (.243 AVG, 12 HR, .691 OPS)
9. Chas McCormick (R) CF (.245 AVG, 14 HR, .738 OPS)

Philadelphia Phillies

1. Kyle Schwarber (L) LF (.218 AVG, 46 HR, .827 OPS)
2. Rhys Hoskins (R) 1B (.246 AVG, 30 HR, .794 OPS)
3. J.T. Realmuto (R) C (.276 HR, 22 HR, .820 OPS)
4. Bryce Harper (L) DH (.286 AVG, 18 HR, .877 OPS)
5. Nick Castellanos (R) RF (.263 AVG, 13 HR, .694 OPS)
6. Alec Bohm (R) 3B (.280 AVG, 13 HR, .713 OPS)
7. Bryson Stott (R) SS (.234 AVG, 10 HR, .653 OPS)
8. Jean Segura (R) 2B (.277 AVG, 10 HR, .723 OPS)
9. Brandon Marsh (R) CF (.245 AVG, 11 HR, .679 OPS)