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☆ Why Dodgers’ Game 5 win over Yankees was the craziest World Series clincher ever
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-31 | by ( Jayson Stark | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +21 min

So let’s do our best to tell you about Game 5 of the 2024 World Series — the game that crowned the Los Angeles Dodgers the champions of baseball, but also very possibly the craziest World Series clincher ever. Was that upside-down enough to qualify as the craziest World Series clincher ever? That was Game 5 of the 2024 World Series, the only postseason game in history in which all that happened. On one hand, STATS tells us that the previous two teams to do it in a World Series game both won anyway. That would be the Cubs, in Game 7 in 2016, and the Cardinals, in The David Freese Game (Game 6) in 2011.

Persons: Luis Gonzalez, Joe Carter, Mazeroski, Gerrit Cole, Cole, Jack Flaherty, Blake Treinen, Walker Buehler, Andrew Friedman, Friedman, ”, “, haven’t, Mookie Betts, Brad Penner, Heck, We’re, Giancarlo Stanton’s, Vincent Carchietta, … Cole, Dave Roberts, Max Muncy, Don Larsen, Max Scherzer, Dustin Pedroia, David Ortiz, Torii Hunter, Don’t, Freddie Freeman, Teoscar, James Lang, Katie Sharp, let’s, Aaron Judge clanking, Anthony Volpe, Anthony Rizzo —, ” Muncy, cramp, Dodger, Pedro Báez, You’ll, Luke Weaver, Jazz Chisholm, can’t, Anthony Volpe’s, Volpe, Wally Skalij, David Freese, Yankees —, Austin Wells …, Shohei Ohtani, Wells ’ mitt, Betts, Walker Buehler’s, Wendell Cruz, Buehler, trotted, Daniel Hudson, Walker, He’s, Madison, Mike Montgomery, ” Friedman, — Blake Treinen –, that’s, Rollie Fingers, Fingers, Rollie Fingers …, Blake Treinen …, Blake Treinen’s, huff, Aroldis Chapman, Mariano Rivera, we’ll, we’d, That’s, Aaron Judge’s, Daniel Shirey Organizations: Los Angeles Dodgers, Yankee, Dodgers, Yankees, Cubs, Wild Department, Red Sox, Tigers, Astros, Phillies, Braves, Blue Jays, . Yankees, — Brewers, Cardinals, Rays, Los Angeles Times, Triple, Oklahoma Dodgers, Round Rock, Madison Bumgarner, Madison Locations: Red, North America, “

☆ Freddie Freeman wallops his way into World Series history with walk-off slam that’ll float forever
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-26 | by ( Jayson Stark | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +14 min

They’re in that hallowed Extra-inning World Series Walk-off Club. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea / Imagn Images)This was the 693rd game in World Series history. But you would think wrong — because the complete list of men to do that consists of …Freddie Freeman! We had a hunch he was the first player in history to do that in a World Series. So little does Freeman know it, but what we saw Friday will go down in the annals as (what else) The Freddie Freeman Game.

Persons: Carlton Fisk … Kirby Puckett, Derek Jeter, David Freese, Freddie Freeman, “ Freddie, Michael Kopech, They’re, Freddie, Max Muncy ., Muncy, ” Muncy, Jayne Kamin, Freddie Freeman’s, Nelson Cruz, Cruz, wilder, Freeman, that’s, ” Freeman, “, Kirk Gibson limps, …, Kirk Gibson, Paul Casella, Geez, Chavez, Gibson, Freeman hadn’t, Freeman’s, “ Freddie’s, Kirk Gibson’s, Freeman wriggled, Terry Pendleton, Joe Carter, Mookie Betts, hadn’t, Francisco Lindor, Mark Vientos …, Johnny Mize Gil McDougald, Yogi Berra Bill Skowron, David Justice Lonnie Smith, Mookie Betts Freddie Freeman, … Dave Roberts, Juan Soto, Howie Kendrick, Roberts, I’ve, —, ”, they’ll, Jason Parkhurst, Nestor Cortes, Eric Orns, Cortes, Alex Verdugo, looper, Kirby Puckett, Derek Jeter “ Mr, Boone, Keith Birmingham Organizations: ANGELES, Dodgers, Yankees, ” Dodgers, Red Sox, 693rd, Univision, Dodger, Rosenthal, FOX Sports, Baseball, WS, MediaNews, Pasadena Star, Getty Locations: Southern California, California, Muncy, Spanish, ’

PHOENIX (AP) — Texas Rangers slugger Adolis García and pitcher Max Scherzer will miss the rest of the World Series after getting hurt in Game 3 against the Arizona Diamondbacks. García, the AL Championship Series MVP, has a moderate strain of his left oblique. Scherzer, who had been in line to pitch a possible Game 7, has a muscle spasm in the right side of his back. García grabbed his left side while coming out of the batter’s box on his flyout against Luis Frías in the eighth inning. García was 3 for 10 in the World Series with two RBIs, including an 11th-inning home run off Miguel Castro that gave Texas a 6-5 win in Friday’s opener.

Persons: Adolis García, Max Scherzer, Ezequiel Duran, Brock Burke, “ They’ve, Chris Young, ”, García, Luis Frías, “, Young, David Freese, Miguel Castro, Travis Jankowski, Jankowski, “ Travis, Bruce Bochy, ” Mitch Garver, Josh Jung, Nathaniel Lowe, Leody Taveras, Scherzer, ” Young Organizations: PHOENIX, — Texas Rangers, Arizona Diamondbacks, García, Rangers, Louis Cardinals, Texas, Houston, Smart, New York Mets, Detroit, San, Washington Locations: San Francisco, Houston

This one won an extended Game 1 of the World Series for the Texas Rangers. If I did that, I’d be screaming, too,” Texas second baseman Marcus Semien said. “It's going to be a really good series,” García said. He became the first position player in MLB history to appear in a World Series 15 years after first playing in the Fall Classic. He also became the fourth player with a World Series hit at both age 23 or younger AND 38 or older.

Persons: Adolis García, Corey Seager's, mobbed, “, Josh Jung, ” Miguel Castro, El Bombi, Corbin Carroll, García, Max Muncy, Nathan Eovaldi —, ” García, Evan Carter's, Merrill Kelly, Jordan Montgomery, Seager, Paul Sewald’s, Leody, Bruce Bochy, ” José Leclerc, that's, we’ve, Torey Lovullo, ” Seager’s, Tony Beasley, ”, Marcus Semien, ” Seager, Tommy Pham, Ketel, Carroll, Zac Gallen, Mitch Garver, Gallen, Ryan Thompson, Joe Mantiply, Kevin Ginkel, Sewald, “ It's, Evan Longoria’s, Eddie Murray, Pee Wee Reese, Willie Mays, David Freese, Freese, ___ Organizations: Texas Rangers, Arizona Diamondbacks, ” Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston, Rangers, Kansas City Royals, New York Mets, Arizona, Diamondbacks, Houston, Star, Marte, NL, Tampa Bay Rays, League, Rays, St, Louis Cardinals, Texas, Kelly Locations: ARLINGTON , Texas, Texas, Arizona, ” Texas

☆ The Texas Rangers Finally Have a Chance to Wake Up From a Nightmare
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Jared Diamond | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

HOUSTON—Twelve years after one of the most devastating losses in baseball history, the heartbreak of the 2011 World Series still looms over the Texas Rangers. On two separate occasions in Game 6—in the ninth inning and then again in the 10th—the Rangers needed just one more strike to claim a championship over the St. Louis Cardinals. Both times, they blew the lead, punctuated by David Freese’s legendary walk-off home run that destroyed a generation of Rangers fans. “For a couple of years after that I would probably have a moment every day where I would think about it,” said Michael Young, the Rangers’ all-time hits leader and a key member of that 2011 squad. “If that ball goes off the end of his bat instead of smack dab on the barrel, this whole thing is different.”

Persons: David Freese’s, ”, Michael Young Organizations: HOUSTON, Texas Rangers, Rangers, Louis Cardinals

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers are back in the World Series for the first time since twice being within one strike of winning the 2011 title. And these Rangers won't even be the first team to play in a World Series at Globe Life Field, their retractable-roof stadium that opened in 2020. Freese led off the 11th with a game-ending homer, and the Cards won Game 7 the following night. That 2016 division title is still the last for the Rangers, one of six big league teams without a World Series title. “I came here to get to the World Series, but I came here to win it.”___

Persons: “ We’ve, Chris Young, They're, Bruce Bochy, Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, Adolis García, Josh Jung, Evan Carter, I’ve, ”, Bochy, “ It’s, Louis, Ron Washington, Seager, David Freese, Nelson Cruz, Lance Berkman, Freese, Texas, Yu Darvish, Darvish, Tommy John, Cole Hamels, Jose Bautista's, Sam Dyson, Cy Young, Jacob deGrom, Nathan Eovaldi, deGrom, Max Scherzer, Jordan Montgomery, Scherzer, “ Organizations: The Texas Rangers, Texas, Rangers, AL, Lone Star State, Astros, St, Life, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cards, Oakland, Toronto, AL West, Nathan Eovaldi . Texas, New York Mets Locations: ARLINGTON , Texas, Texas, Houston, San Francisco, St, Baltimore, Semien, Nathan Eovaldi .

HOUSTON (AP) — Texas Rangers slugger Adolis García set a record for RBIs in a postseason series with 15 in the AL Championship Series and extended his home run streak to four games after going deep twice in Game 7 against the Houston Astros on Monday night. García stretched his RBI streak to six games with a single in the first inning of the pennant-deciding game. He's also the first player with RBIs in six straight games within a postseason series. Cruz had 13 RBIs for the Rangers in the 2011 ALCS against Detroit, which was the last time they went to the World Series. García has 20 RBIs in these playoffs, the most ever by a player before the start of the World Series.

Persons: Adolis García, García, He's, El Bombi ”, Nelson Cruz, Cruz, David Freese's, Bryan Abreu, Martin Maldonado, Abreu, Jose Altuve's, — Organizations: HOUSTON, — Texas Rangers, Houston Astros, Rangers, Detroit, Umpires, Houston Locations: Cuban

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