We've all had a day where nothing goes right. Junior Caminero's came on national TV in October.

In Game 3 of the American League Championship Series on Thursday, the Tampa Bay Rays slugger struck out four times in a 3-2 loss to Cleveland. "Believe me, I don't want to strike out four times," Caminero said afterward through interpreter Kevin Vera, per ESPN. "We just have to make adjustments for the next game, plain and simple."

Then the weather made him wait. Rain pushed Game 4 from Friday to Saturday night. When it finally happened, Caminero adjusted, all right. The Rays beat the Guardians 7-3 at Progressive Field, and the ALCS is now tied 2-2.

The baseball gods tested him first

Caminero's first big swing was a rocket. ESPN clocked it at 110.7 mph and 410 feet to center field, and it would have been a home run in 17 of 30 big-league ballparks. Instead, Cleveland's Petey Halpin caught it at the wall. (Yes, the same Petey Halpin whose homer won Game 3. Rude.)

Most of us would have thrown our bat into the nearest lake. Caminero waited two innings and did it again. In the sixth, with the game tied 1-1, he smoked a 110.2 mph line drive into the left-field corner for an RBI double. This time nobody was catching it, and Tampa Bay led 2-1. ESPN named him the Game 4 star.

The inning that broke it open

The seventh is when the night got away from Cleveland. With two runners on, Jonathan Aranda lined a single to right that easily scored Richie Palacios. That should have been it. But right fielder Chase DeLauter let the ball roll under his glove, and Taylor Walls came around to score too. Chandler Simpson added a sacrifice fly, and it was 5-1.

To Cleveland's credit, the Guardians didn't fold. Travis Bazzana hit a homer in the bottom of the seventh, and Brayan Rocchio's RBI single made it 5-3. Then, in the ninth, Yandy Díaz hit a two-run homer to put it away. Aranda finished with three hits, and so did Palacios.

The quiet hero

Big hits get the highlights, but Rays starter Nick Martinez might have made the most important contribution. He held Cleveland to one run on two hits over 5⅓ innings. That's huge because if this series goes the distance, the teams will play four games in four days in two cities. Every inning a starter covers is an inning a tired bullpen doesn't have to.

Cleveland, meanwhile, had to use seven pitchers. It started the night with a "bullpen game," where a reliever (Shawn Armstrong) opens and a parade of arms follows, instead of one starter going deep.

So, who's playing the Brewers?

Good question. This series has been a seesaw: Tampa Bay also lost Game 1 and bounced back in Game 2. ESPN called Saturday the Rays hitting "the reset button -- again."

Now it's a best-of-three for a ticket to face Milwaukee in the World Series. Game 5 is Sunday at 3 p.m. MT in Cleveland, and the Rays will have a fully rested Drew Rasmussen on the mound, according to ESPN. Per ESPN, the team that wins Game 5 of a series tied 2-2 goes on to win it 67% of the time.

If needed, Games 6 and 7 are Monday and Tuesday in Tampa Bay. The Brewers, who swept the Dodgers on Thursday, are well rested and waiting for Game 1 on Oct. 23 in Milwaukee.

And Caminero? Two nights ago he was the guy who couldn't make contact. Now he's the guy everybody in Cleveland is worried about on Sunday. That's October for you.