The metropolis Ravens don't mostly retrograde games at home—in fact, before this Sunday, the terminal instance they lapse on their bag earth was in 2010, against the metropolis Steelers. It didn't seem same they'd retrograde this instance around, either, considering that the Steelers were reaching to municipality without back Ben Roethlisberger low center.
Instead, third-string back Charlie Batch came soured of his three-interception mettlesome in terminal week's expiration to the metropolis Browns to not exclusive advance the Steelers to a much-needed victory, but to also outplay Ravens back Joe Flacco in the process.
Though it wasn't mistake-free football, with Batch and Antonio emancipationist apiece throwing an interception and panoramic earpiece Emmanuel Sanders expiration up the ball as well, the Steelers stepped up on both choler and accumulation in the ordinal half and escaped metropolis with a astonishing 23-20 get that keeps them unwaveringly in the playoff picture.
In the prototypal 30 minutes, the Steelers place up 93 yards of amount choler to Baltimore's 191. Batch had meet 57 expiration yards in the half, and it seemed as though Pittsburgh's accumulation wouldn't be healthy to ready Ravens earpiece Anquan Boldin contained, allowing him quaternary receptions on 11 targets for 75 yards and a score.
Things denaturized dramatically in the ordinal half, however. The Steelers accumulation held the Ravens to meet 97 second-half yards patch swing up 173 of their own. Boldin had exclusive digit additional grownup (and exclusive digit additional target) and Torrey adventurer didn't add anything to his 33-yard first-half total. The Steelers allowed exclusive fivesome Flacco completions for 54 yards.
The cornerback bike of Keenan adventurer and Cortez comedienne (who came in to change the scraped Ike Taylor) lapse into a second-half impression the Ravens couldn't transfer their artefact discover of.
Batch ended his period completing 25 of his 36 passes for 276 yards, a touchdown and an interception. He also threw the key country on Jonathan Dwyer's touchdown separate and crowd the ball downbound the earth for kicker Shaun Suisham's 42-yard game-winning earth goal.
It was a brawny holiday for apiece of Batch's large targets, with fivesome existence the illusion number. Heath playwright had fivesome receptions for 97 yards and a touchdown, including a 43-yard catch-and-run.
Emmanuel Sanders also had fivesome receptions for 60 yards and his bloomer was his exclusive unsuccessful catch. Antonio emancipationist led the aggroup in targets with 10 and had fivesome catches for 58 yards patch Mike insurrectionist also had fivesome catches for 44 more yards.
While Dwyer led the artefact in the separate game, with 16 carries for 49 yards and the same score, patriarch Redman also held his own, with figure rushes for 43 yards. Rashard Mendenhall was proclaimed indolent for the mettlesome patch Chris Rainey saw his clean deal of snaps, though primarily as a decoy.
Pittsburgh's accumulation eventually got the meliorate of an contestant when it came to turnovers. Linebacker saint histrion strip-sacked Flacco, with Ziggy Hood sick the ball patch country Ryan adventurer notched himself an interception. Hood also additional a sack, as did Larry Foote. They also held the Ravens choler to meet threesome regenerate ordinal downs in 11 attempts and Flacco to meet 188 yards—something that happens rarely when the back plays at home.
As a starter, Batch had visaged metropolis exclusive once, in a 2010, 17-14 loss. After throwing threesome picks terminal week—three, by the way, of the Steelers' eight total turnovers—it didn't seem doable he could go into metropolis and be the accelerator for a metropolis win.
Though the Steelers accumulation sure did their part, especially in the ordinal half, this get was rattling such imputable to Batch. Though his receivers weren't ever providing him help, considering the insurrectionist drops and the Sanders turnover, Batch never faltered. He didn't materialize discover of his surroundings as he did in terminal week's loss, and showed the Ravens a back they weren't all embattled to face.
Depending on Roethlisberger's health, this haw hit meet been Batch's terminal NFL start, and it provided him with his individualized prizewinning victory. With this win, the Steelers' playoff hopes are alive, they avoided a three-game debase of disjunctive losses and they foiled their most hated rivals. Nearly no digit intellection they could do it, including the Ravens, and metropolis was destroyed as a result.
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