A home run by Puerto Rican Eddie Rosario was decisive in the sixth game of the National League Championship Series, which ended 4-2 and led the Braves to the World Series to the detriment of the Dodgers, champions of the previous championship.
In this way, Atlanta will once again appear in the defining instance of the MLB - something it had not achieved since 1999 - and there it will face the Astros starting Tuesday, winners by the same balance as the Red Sox.
This Saturday, the Braves broke the initial parity in the score in the same first inning when Austin Riley doubled with Ozzie Albies in the circuit. However, Cody Bellinger tied it in the fourth inning by sending teammate Trea Turner to the rubber with a hit to left field.
The joy would last very little in the cave of the Californians. That's because in the bottom part of that inning the most inspired man in Atlanta, Rosario, hit the aforementioned home run with two on bases at the expense of a delivery from starter Walker Buehler, who was doing his job with just three days of rest.
The game continued on its way with calm seas until the seventh inning, where the Dodgers opened fire on reliever Luke Jackson with a pipe by Chris Taylor, a walk to Bellinger and a double by AJ Pollock that discounted a run and put runners on second and third without outs.
SoThe Braves' top brass put Tyler Matzek in the box: he began his work by striking out Albert Pujols, continued with another coffee at the expense of Steven Souza and closed the task with a new blowout, this time with Mookie Betts as the victim.. Bestial.
Not content with that, Matzek hit the zero again at the top of the eighth, and at the conclusion of the chapter the Cuban returned to the diamonds.Jorge Soler, who had been sick a few days ago due to COVID. Yoyo occupied a pinch-hit position and fought as hard as he could against Kenley Jansen's deliveries until he hit a tubey. Atlanta replaced him at that time with his compatriotGuillermo Heredia, but the race did not bear fruit in the end.
Closer Will Smith was responsible for supporting the final success.
By the way, in the Houston franchise the key figure in the Championship Series against Boston was precisely another Latino, the CubanYordan Alvarez.
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