With home runs from the Cuban Jorge Soler, Freddie Freeman and Dansby Swanson, the Atlanta Braves 7×0 won Tuesday the Houston Astros and they were proclaimed champions World Series baseball by closing the score at 4-2.
The Braves were crowned in a World Series for the first time since 1995, when they beat the Cleveland Indians.
This was also the Braves fourth trophy in World Series in addition to those achieved in 1957 when they were based in Milwaukee and in 1914 when Boston was their home.
For their part, the Astros, who are in a World Series for the third time in five years, only took the trophy in 2017.
Cuban Soler was voted MVP Series, to become the second Cuban to achieve it. The other Cuban was Liván Hernández in 1997 with the then Florida Marlins.
– The party Braves –
The Braves started the party early, since in the same first inning they made three runs per length. homer Cuban Jorge Soler against the Venezuelan starter Luis García (0-1), finally the defeated.
The entry began Curaçaoan Ozzie Albies with a single, followed by a ticket to Puerto Rico Eddie Rosario and the Soler jonronazo, His third of the Fall Classic, the last two to win the match.
The star Cuban slugger not only took the fence but also blew up the left field bleachers in a huge hit, one of the biggest hit at Minute Maid Park in Houston.
Soler tied Hank Aaron (1957), Lonnie Smith (1991) and Ryan Klesko (1995) as the Braves players with three home runs in a single World Series.
This is the second ring of the Cuban as he saves the 2016 World Series win with the Chicago Cubs, who beat the Cleveland Indians.
In the fifth, the Braves crossed the plate twice more with another homer near shortstop Swanson with Albies in circulation by walking, to put the scoreboard 5×0 at the time.
Then the Cuban Soler slugger walked and Freeman followed with a double against the left field fences and the Antillean recorded the team’s sixth race.
The Braves scored yet another in the seventh with Freeman’s homer. and Atlanta increased its lead to 7×0. Freeman now has nine career postseason home runs and five of them came in these 2021 playoffs. Now with those five he tied Fred McGriff for the most in franchise postseason history.
“Everyone is very happy. We have been waiting for a championship in this city for a long time and I am glad to finally have achieved it,” said Freeman, who considered that “the records are good, but winning the Series is great.”
The Braves removed starter Max FriedWho was dominating, but was replaced by Tyler Matzek.
Matzek was greeted with unstoppable by Cuban Yordan Alvarez, but fellow Cuban Yuli Gurriel and Kyle Tucker were pulled into the outfield and Alex Bregman fanned.
Fried (1-1) pitched six scoreless innings with four hits allowed and six strikeouts.
“I had to dig deep,” he said Fried. “I knew how much they believed in me and I had to go out and give a dignified exit. I could not be happier to do it together with this group of guys“.
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