The series will continue this Wednesday with the second game also in Houston with a pitching duel between Max Fried (Braves) and Mexican José Urquidy (Astros).
With home runs from Cuban Jorge Soler and Adam Duvall, the Atlanta Braves took the first hit in the Baseball world series of 2021 by beating this Tuesday at the Houston Astros 6×2 in the first game.
The series, the best of seven games, will continue this Wednesday with the second game also in Houston, home of the Astros, with a pitching duel between Max Fried (Bravos) and the mexican Jose Urquidy (Astros).
The Braves, who are in their first World Series since 1999 and haven’t won the Fall Classic since 1995, had a spectacular start to score five runs in the first three innings and they never looked back.
“Tomorrow is another day and who knows,” said the Astros manager Dusty Baker, who is in the World Series for the first time since 2002. “The way I see it is that tomorrow the ball will bounce in our direction (favor luck).”
Braves, all warriors
The Braves start aggressive and the leadoff hitter, Cuban Soler, dispatched a home run down to left field and they went up 1×0.
It was the first home run in the first visit to the plate of a World Series.
On four previous occasions, a hitter had blown up the fence on his team’s first home plate visit, but they did. closing the inning.
The others who have homered as the first hitter on their team in a World Series, but at the close of the first inning, are Chris Taylor (2017, Dodgers vs. Astros), the Venezuelan Alcides Escobar (2015, Reales vs. Mets), Dustin Pedroia (2007, Red Sox vs. Rockies) and Don Buford (1969, Orioles vs. Mets).
Then Freddie Freeman fell from second to first in a defensive jewel of the Venezuelan Jose Altuve, while the curazoleño Ozzie Albies He won the first with a hit inside the box and later stole second, from where he scored by an RBI double for Austin Riley.
The boricua Eddie Rosario, the MVP of the National League championship series, struck out for the second out of the inning, and the slugger Adam Duvall, Home run leader with 38 on the ‘Old Circuit’ in the regular season, he gave up the third out with a long hit to right field.
At the close of that entry, the veteran Charlie Morton got into trouble because after striking out Altuve he allowed a hit to Michael Brantley, gave a passport to the Cuban Yordan Alvarez and desbol the boricua Carlos Correa to load the bases with two outs, but he shoved his arm all the way down and dominated on a ground ball to Kyle Tucker.
The Braves opened the second with consecutive singles by Trevor d’Arnaud and Joc Pederson and after Dansby Swanson’s out, Cuban Soler batted in the infield for a selection play out but the runner on third base scored the third run.
With the bases loaded and two outs, the starter Framber Valdez he was able to quell the danger by striking out Riley.
In the third, the Braves struck the tree again with two more runs per single by Puerto Rican Rosario and a homerun by Duvall, which caused the expulsion of Valdez from the box, who was replaced by the Dominican Yimi Garcia, who endured the bleeding with two strikeouts.
Valdez (0-1), a native of Sabana Grande, became the 12th Dominican to start a Fall Classic game in the Major Leagues.
He also became the first Dominican to pitch as a starter in a World Series game since he did so. Edinson Volquez in Game 5 of the 2015 World Series when they won their Kansas City Royals.
The Braves starter had to leave the game at hurt a leg after a line from the Cuban Yuli Gurriel. Morton suffered a fibula fracture in his right leg and the Series ended for him.
Morton was replaced by left-handed reliever AJ Minter. Despite allowing Brantley a double, Minter retired on a ground Alex Bregmany in punch to the dangerous Yordan Alvarez, the Cuban MVP of the American League championship.
The Astros reacted in the fourth and discounted a double by Tucker and a single by Cuban Gurriel.
Luke Jackson and Tyler Matzek they were responsible for hanging the zero in the seventh inning by striking out Altuve and Bregman on an intercalated hit by Brantley.
In the eighth, the Braves put two men on bases after Swanson was walked and the Cuban Soler, with a hit inside the box, left the scene ready for Freeman will push the sixth race with a sacrifice fly.
In the eighth, the Astros opened aggressively when Cuban Alvarez hit a triple off the reliever. Tyler Matzek, who dominated Correa on a grounder across the infield but the third runner scored the Astros’ second.
The closer Will Smith granted a ticket to the emerging Cuban Aledmys Diaz In the ninth, but Mexican Jason Castro’s grounder served to force the runner into second, Altuve also grounded out for one out at second and Brantley gave up from second to first. (D)
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