To get to discuss the pennant of the oldest Major League Baseball (MLB) circuit, both teams had to go through the wild card round and break the adverse predictions, by unseating the leaders of the qualifying phase in their respective divisions.
The hosts, winners of two World Series (1980 and 2008) and eight pennants in their league throughout history, defeated the Atlanta Braves in four games (3-1), the team that commanded the East section with a record of 104 wins.
The visitors, who lifted the champion trophy in 2001, also caused a surprise by sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers, a team that easily dominated the West key with 100 successes and surpassed them by a difference of 16 games in the standings. .
Fillies helmsman Rob Thomson, the first Canadian-born to take a team beyond the regular stage, appointed right-hander Zack Wheeler to open the fight, who already beat his rivals in March and the Marlins in Miami in the wild card duel.
The tall 33-year-old right-hander, with nine seasons of MLB experience and one participation in the All-Star Game (2021), had a record of 13 wins and six losses in the season and was the fourth highest strikeout pitcher on the circuit (212).
For his part, Diamondbacks mentor Torey Lovullo announced the important commitment to fellow right-hander Zac Gallen, a pitcher who won 17 games this year, second in that department in the entire National League.
With six contests in the Major Leagues, five of them in Arizona, “Galls”, who participated this summer in the All-Star Game for the first time in his career, has already accumulated a couple of victories in the fall at the expense of the Milwaukee Brewers (wild card ) and the Dodgers (Division Series).
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2023-10-16 06:08:28
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