George Springer ends Alex Wood’s no-hit bid with a tie-breaking home run

For a minute there, it was looking like Alex Wood was going to be pulled from a World Series game while in the middle of a no-hit bid.

But then George Springer took care of that with one swing, hitting a two-out home run in the sixth inning that broke up the no-hitter and the tie at once.

Wood was working on the longest no-hit bid in the history of the Dodgers in the postseason, but as he approached 80 pitches and then surpassed that mark it was looking more and more like Dave Roberts could pull him before the end of the game and turn to the bullpen regardless of how things were going on the scoreboard.

Springer nicely took that decision out of his hands with a good old fashioned Springer Dinger — getting that home run that he came just short of hitting in Game 3 — and Wood exited the game, with Brandon Morrow taking over for the final out of the inning.

That one run absolutely should lessen the work Wood put in before that (just in case you were thinking it would in any way) as he shut down a formidable Astros offense for five-plus innings and only managed to be eclipsed by Charlie Morton’s similarly great night for the opposing team. It also wouldn’t end up being the winning run, as the Dodgers put a breadstick of their own on the board in response in the seventh inning.

Springer went through a slump that ended in Game 3, but he can get his bat on pitches, and he showed that in his at-bat against Wood. It was an 82-mph curve low in the zone, and Houston’s leadoff hitter had its number.

A great outing from Wood, who also struck out three batters and only allowed one walk, before he exited stage right. And a great end to that outing for the Houston fans packed into the stadium watching it all go down.