Wednesday, November 01, 2017

Houston Astros Win 2017 World Series

Congratulations to the Houston Astros, an excellent team, a worthy opponent, and World Series champions for the first time in their 56-year franchise history.

As for us, this was our first World Series in 29 years. It was fun to get back (and get all the way to Game 7) after so many years. Hopefully we'll be back next year and try again.

This World Series had a lot of record-breaking. (Cody Bellinger's strike-out record was a particularly annoying one.)

This year was one of those rare years in which the two teams that I believe to be the two best faced off against each other in the World Series.

As a factoid, Brandon Morrow pitched in all 7 games in this World Series, the first pitcher to do that since Darold Knowles in 1973 and the second ever pitcher to do that. Today's Game 7 was the first World Series game 7 that was ever played in Dodger Stadium.

I assume that George Springer will be named the Most Valuable Player of the series.

Update: Yup, George Springer is the series MVP.

Update: And to top it off, Carlos Correa just did a live marriage proposal (it was accepted) while he was being interviewed.

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