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capped a remarkable NL Championship Series with a three-run homer, sending the Atlanta Braves to the World Series for the first time since 1999 with a 4-2 victory over the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday night.
Spurred on by chants of “Eddie! Eddie! Eddie” from the raucous sellout crowd of more than 43,000, Rosario finished 14 of 25 against the Dodgers, with three homers and nine RBIs.With the score tied at 1 in the bottom of the fourth, Rosario came up after pinch-hitterextended the inning with a two-out double into the right-field corner. Slow-running catcherRosario got into an extended duel withwasn't able to go because of a tired arm.
Finally, he got one he liked from the Dodgers' 16-game winner — a cutter that Rosario turned into a 105 mph rocket down the right-field line, higher and higher, straight as an arrow until it landed well back into the seats below the Chop House restaurant. The Braves will be looking to bury their city's reputation for playoff misery. From four World Series losses in the 1990s to the NFL Falcons blowing a 28-3 lead in the 2017 Super Bowl, Atlanta again finds itself on cusp of an extremely rare feat.Those ‘95 Braves remain the city's lone team in the four major sports — baseball, football, basketball and hockey — to capture a title.said after a Game 5 loss that the city's history would remain an issue “until we kill that narrative.
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