There’s nothing better than a World Series that goes all seven games, which we’ve now seen in three of the past four seasons. With a Game 7 victory in last year’s World Series, the Cubs won their first championship in 108 years, while a Game 7 win this year gave the Astros their first-ever title in the franchise’s 55-year history. Both the Cubs’ and Astros’ World Series victories are truly memorable, as the Cubs broke a famed curse, while the Astros brought the title back to a city that was pounded by the devastating Hurricane Harvey just a few months earlier. While the Dodgers were also playing for a state that has been ravaged by some of its worst wildfires in history, the Series also saw a special moment at its conclusion. After winning his first World Series championship, Houston shortstop Carlos Correa proposed to 2016 Miss Texas USA and girlfriend Daniella Rodriguez, who said yes, ending the biggest night of his life.
The Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays had a remarkable playoff game for Major League Baseball that all came down to the bizarre seventh inning. This game was a very important one, deciding which team would move on from their Division Series. It was the fifth game in the series of best out of five games with each team having won two games. The Rangers got ahead at first with a very odd and controversial play, but the Blue Jays came back with an incredible hit.
Blues Knock Out Blackhawks in Epic Game 7 This game will go down in history as one of greatest Game 7s ever witnessed. I am not a fan of either team, but my heart was racing till the final second. In the end, after an exhausting battle, the St. Louis Blues came out on top with a 3-2 win over the defending Stanley Cup champs the Chicago Blackhawks. The Blues chance for advancing was carried out by a goal from Troy Brouwer with a little over 12 minutes left in the third.
Chicago White Sox The chicago white sox were one of the best baseball teams in the early 90’s. The chicago white sox were founded in 1894 by Charles comiskey at the end of its first season and was relocated to St. Paul, Minnesota .The team were known as the Sioux city Corn huskers before they were moved. The chicago white sox moved from Minnesota to Chicago so they can have more publicity and they going nowhere over there so they left to make a name for themselves so team moved to Chicago in 1900, and the renamed American League was elevated to major league status the following year, with Chicago taking the first league title in 1901.
To start there have been many famous “moments” at Wrigley such as: Ernie Banks’ 500th home run (1970), Kerry Wood 20 strikeout game, Sammy Sosa's 60th homerun in 1998, 1999, and 2001, and Greg Maddux’s 3000th career strikeouts. Another well known famous moment that happened at WRigley was Babe Ruth’s “called shot” during the 1932 world series. Ruth pointed to centerfield suggesting where the next ball would go and Ruth hit a home run there. It is debated whether Ruth was pointing at the pitcher or gesturing to the Cubs bench but that moment has not been forgetted. Wrigley field is significant because it holds memories of this moment and it a baseball historical landmark.
October 27th, 2011. Game 6. Two outs, bottom of the 9th. Two strikes, two runners on base. The team down 7-5.
The Dodgers finally won , and we owe it to Jackie Robinson. That is right, Jackie Robinson got his first world series in 1955. Do you know who Jackie Robinson is? Well, he was the first African American to join the MLB, outside of a segregation group. This was big because no black ever joined the MLB until he did because he showed the black people that it was possible to be a professional baseball player.
“The feeling of longing for home is born into us. That wonderful dream cannot become real without great faith. ”-Henry B. Eyring. This is how both Shorty in Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki and Andrew in Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting feel. Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki is about a Japanese-American boy-nicknamed Shorty- and his family who are forced into a camp with other Japanese-Americans during a time of war between America and Japan.
The Yankees would defeat the Padres in four games to win their 24th World Series Championship(New York Yankees History). They would also go on to defeat the Braves in four games in the 1999 World Series and the Mets in five games in the 2000 World Series to win their 25th and 26th World Series Titles(New York Yankees
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Game 7 was an intense match with neither starting pitcher making it out of the third inning and both teams combining to use eight relievers. While on the offensive, the Astros were led to victory by George Springer, the team’s center fielder, who home runned for the fourth consecutive game (tying Reggie Jackson and Chase Utley for the most home runs in a single World Series with five). The man of the hour, Correa, contributed greatly to the championship race, having hit two home runs over the course of the World Series, but it was his antics on the field after the game that really made headlines.
One day, my family were watching the Royals game five of the World Series on the T.V. This wasn’t any game though, If the Royals won this game, they would win the World Series! I was watching the game with my parents and my two sisters, Caroline and Lucy. It was very exciting because the Royals hadn’t won the World Series in 30 years!
The Big Red Machine beat the Pittsburgh Pirates for the National League Championship 3 times in 6 years. That team also made it to the World Series 4 times in those 6 years. They won one championship against the New York Yankees and one against the Boston Red Sox. Johnny Bench is a member of the MLB Hall of Fame, inducted into the HOF in 1989.
For a young baseball player one of the highest goals to achieve is hitting a homerun -for me that was all I wanted. I already achieved most of what I wanted in baseball, and one of my proudest was a no-hitter, but it was no home run. When I first realized how bad I wanted this feat was one night after a practice where all we did was just hit. The majority of my teammates hit at least one homerun that practice, but me I hit the fence but never was able to send one over. The car ride home after the practice was horrible, I was a mess.
This shows that the Cubs are more than capable of winning the World Series again sometime in the near
