The Atlanta team left the Dodgers on the road and advanced to the definition, where the Houston team were already waiting.
The great appointment to the Fall Classic already has this year the two best teams in the Major Leagues with the Houston Astros as brand-new champions of the American and the Atlanta Braves of the National, a duel that had not occurred since both franchises competed in the majors.
A six-decade wait that has been worth it, since in the 2021 World Series it will have great incentives, new faces, and marks to beat between two teams that have already done the most difficult, breaking the forecasts of bettors who did not have them among the favorites.
But above all there will be Latin American prominence assured with the sluggers, the Cuban Yordan Álvarez, brand new winner of the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award of the American League Championship Series with the Astros, and the Puerto Rican Eddie Rosario, of the MVP in the National with the Braves.
Venezuelan second baseman José Altuve, the Puerto Rican shortstop, along with Cuban first baseman Yuli Gurriel are looking for more laurels after winning the first championship title in 2017.
Another Venezuelan, the young rookie, starter Luis García, seems to have already found the formula to shine in playoffs. Houston’s other pitchers, including Dominican left-hander Framber Valdez, will have to face Curaçao second baseman Ozzie Albies and first baseman Austin Riley and all those young Atlanta hitters.
Also the stellar first baseman of the Braves, Freddie Freeman to hit baseball’s top hits for the first time in his career.
While veteran handler Dusty Baker, 72, remains in the running for a fall handler coronation.
Father vs. child
And there will even be a family duel with the confrontation of a father against his son as will be the case of Brian Snitker, manager of the Braves, and his son Troy who works as a hitting coach in Houston.
“We know the Snitkers are going to have a World Series trophy at home.”Joked the Braves manager. “I don’t know who’s going to get it, but we’re going to have one, and that’s really nice.”
The Astros versus Braves duel, which took six decades to develop, will confront two teams that reached the military in the National League and have met more than 700 times, including five series of playoffs.
Just remember the legendary Hank Aaron and Jimmy Wynn fighting a Home Run Derby at the Houston Astrodome. Or former starters Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine and John Smoltz facing ex-rookies Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio on a June night when the Astros were playing on the Old Circuit.
For the formation of the calendar and COVID, The Astros and Braves haven’t met since 2017 when the Houston team won their first World Series, but they will do it again as of Tuesday when the Minute Maid Park in Houston begins the competition with the opening game of the Fall Classic to the best of seven.
The Astros reach their third World Series in five years and start as favorites 3-2 to clinch the title in the FanDuel betting book. while the Braves haven’t done it since 1999.
Neither team is a national fan favorite at this point in the competition, especially when it comes to the Astros, which includes Altuve, Correa, third baseman Alex Bregman and Gurriel. who will forever carry the tag of cheaters, after being part of the Astros who devised an illegal system to steal signals, on the way to winning the 2017 World Series.
At Minute Maid Park they find ovations. In every other park they are greeted by the hostility reserved for Major League Baseball’s worst villains.
“Since the bad news, we’ve had to deal with what happened in 2017, and I think we all want to show what kind of players we are,” Alvarez said. “We know how to win without doing anything illegal. In fact I was not here with the team in 2017. ″
Against odds and obstacles
Álvarez insisted that he had “unfairly” booed him like the others, but they were ready and with the mentality of wanting to win in the World Series to show that “we are a great team.”
The Braves overcame the season-ending injuries of dynamic Venezuelan Ronald Acuña Jr. in July. They rebounded after languishing to 52-55 in early August, thanks to the help that Rosario provided.
Although the campus changed, the sounds and images persist. During the Championship Series, fans at Truist Park in Atlanta made reference to the “tomahawks”And sang songs supposedly inspired by ethnic groups originating in the United States.
During an era of greater social justice, the Cleveland Indians changed their name to Guardians., and the American football team of the National League (NFL) Washington Redskins had to remove theirs because it was considered racist.
Atlanta has not announced any modifications, and it will surely turn heads during the World Series that no one expected, but which brings together the two current best teams in the Major Leagues. (D)
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