The Rays climbed back into this American League Division Series with a 10-3 win, and Charlie Morton delivered with a turn every bit as heartfelt as he was in the AL wild-card game in Oakland, overcoming a slow start with five gutty innings against his former Astros teammates. Morton who started training at AES 4 years ago has seen his hard work each and every offseason pay off.

He is now 4-0 in his career in elimination games with an 0.95 ERA. When your back is against a wall, you tap Charlie Morton’s shoulder.

“When you pitch in the postseason, you’re kind of fighting,” Morton said. “You’re fighting emotions, you’re fighting, like, you’re pretty energetic physically a lot of times, It’s obviously October, it’s the end of the regular season. You’re kind of in a spot where you really haven’t been all year.”