HOUSTON — Atlanta won its first World Series game since 1996 on Tuesday, but afterward all the victors wanted to talk about was what they had lost.
Charlie Morton, who started Game 1, took a line drive off his right leg in the second inning. He retired three more batters before the pain became intolerable. X-rays revealed that he had broken his fibula. The exact timeline of the fracture itself is unclear. The team said that an X-ray after the second inning came back negative, so trainers let him take the mound again in the third.