BREAKING: The Atlanta Braves have won their first World Series championship since 1995, defeating the Houston Astros 7-0 in Game 6.
Last Updated Tuesday, November 2, 2021 11:47PM EDTThey dropped their first four games, and soon injuries piled up. They lost their most dynamic player before the All-Star break. They were stuck below .500 in August.Jorge Soler, Freddie Freeman and thebreezed to their first World Series championship since 1995, hammering the Houston Astros 7-0 Tuesday night in Game 6.Max Fried threw six shutout innings in the signature pitching performance of the Series.
By then, it was a total team effort. Ailing star Ronald Acuna Jr., the dynamo of Atlanta's future, bounded from the dugout to join the celebration for Freeman, the longtime face of the franchise. Soler tapped his heart twice before beginning his home run trot after connecting off rookie Luis Garcia in the third inning, sending the ball flying completely out of Minute Maid Park. Dansby Swanson also homered and by the final out, nothing could stop them.
For 72-year-old Houston manager Dusty Baker, a disappointment. But for many fans still rooting against the Astros in the wake of their 2017 sign-stealing scandal, some satisfaction., too, goes to general manager Alex Anthopoulos. Undaunted by Acuna's knee injury, he pulled off a flurry of July trades that brought the Fab Four to the outfield - NL Championship Series MVP Eddie Rosario, Adam Duvall, Joc Pederson and Soler.took wouldn't add up in any computer.
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