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Harper said something to Castellanos and pointed a finger at his teammate's chest after crossing the plate. “Kind of a lazy curveball,” catcher MartÃn Maldonado said. End of story," he said. "This has nothing to do with tipping."
With all due respect to the great two-way Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge is the AL MVP for a number of reasons. Not only did Judge put together one of the greatest single seasons in baseball history, he carried the Yankee offense, which sputtered through much of the season. And without him, the Yankees certainly would not have run away with the AL East the way they did. Judge plays every day, leads the majors in nine different categories and is superb defensively in both right and center field.
National League Manager of the Year
This is the last Yankee we’ll be talking about here, just in case you’re wondering. Outside of winning his final title with the Dodgers in 1963, Bill Skowron made his seven other Fall Classic appearances with New York. Joe DiMaggio is yet another Yankee who won an abundance of World Series titles.
Glancing at the starting pitching matchups, this one promised a pitchers’ duel, and the two hurlers did not disappoint. David Cone took the ball for the Bombers making his fourth start of the postseason. Fresh off a top-10 season among starters in the league, Cone carried that red-hot form into the playoffs. He pitched 5.2 scoreless two-hit innings in Game 3 of the ALDS against the Rangers before twirling an absolute gem in Game 2 of the ALCS — eight innings allowing just a run. He may have hit a bit of a bump in the clinching Game 6 of the ACLS over Cleveland, allowing five runs in five innings, but his offense exploded to render his start a footnote.
Lou Gehrig: 10 Home Runs
The Astros’ best opportunity came with two outs in the top of the fifth when Chas McCormick and Martin Maldonado reached base, but Suarez coaxed a pop-up from Jose Altuve to retire the side. Moments later, Schwarber and Hoskins went yard on consecutive plate appearances to chase McCullers from the game while sending the sellout crowd of 45,712 fans into pandemonium. That was more than enough for Ranger Suarez, the Phillies’ unheralded left-handed starter who scattered three hits over five scoreless innings against the Astros’ potent lineup.
McCullers crouched, then turned and watched with a pained look as the ball landed. Things got a bit hairy in the final two innings, Mendoza issuing a one-out double to Veras in the eighth to cause Torre to call on his own legendary closer for the five-out save. It was far from a vintage outing from Mariano Rivera, who surrendered a single to Gwynn to put runners on the corners before a Greg Vaughn sac fly made sure this game would head to the ninth at a fever-pitch in tension, 5-4.
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“I don’t really get hit around like that, so I was a little bit in disbelief,” McCullers said, answering question after question for at least 10 minutes, telling a club official not to cut media off. Build your custom FanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis on All MLB and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more. But that begs the question of what is the record for the most home runs in a single World Series. Power-hitting has become commonplace in MLB as home runs are so valuable. The Phillies dugout and fans react to Kyle Schwarber’s home run in the fifth inning.
Bryce Harper, Alec Bohm, Rhys Hoskins, Kyle Schwarber and Brandon Marsh all hit home runs in the Phillies' 7-0 Game 3 win. It appeared that Philadelphia noticed McCullers drastically changing his delivery for fastballs and off-speed pitches. This is an issue we have seen in the postseason before, most notably Yu Darvish for the LA Dodgers in the 2017 World Series.
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“The Mick” made 273 plate appearances in 65 games and helped the Yankees to seven championships. New York won a seven-game battle, and DiMaggio wasn’t as huge of a factor like in past victories. He did slug those two homers with five RBI in 32 plate appearances, but they were the only extra-base hits he recorded while posting an .837 OPS. Whatever the quiet counseling was, it worked, and Bohm lined his first postseason homer and the 1,000th in World Series history into the left field seats for 3-0 lead.
It’s easy to forget that Reggie Jackson had already won three with the Oakland Athletics before landing in the Bronx with the Yankees. After losing the World Series in 1921 and 1922, Ruth and the Yankees went on to win it all in four of their next five trips to the Fall Classic. This included three straight sweeps in ’27, ’28, and ’32. Ruth’s OPS in each of those matchups were 1.271 in ’27, 2.022 in ’28, and 1.233 in ’32. While he’s second to Mantle on this list, he found a way to distinguish himself from the pack. Four relievers each tossed a scoreless inning to finish the five-hitter.
Speculation started soon after Harper hit a go-ahead, two-run drive with two outs in the first, sending a knuckle-curve 402 feet into the right-center field seats. McCullers did a 360 and hopped off the mound, not even waiting for the ball to land. Five years after winning Game 3 of the Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, McCullers had a Charlie Brown-type outing, the first pitcher to allow five homers in any postseason game. They answered back immediately in the top of the seventh, Scott Brosius leading off with a home run to breakup the shutout followed by a Shane Spencer double to knock Hitchcock from the game. Joey Hamilton was brought on in relief and on his first pitch spiked a wild pitch that allowed Spencer to advance to third. With two outs and Cone’s spot in the order up to bat, Chili Davis was called upon to pinch-hit and delivered a groundball that Caminiti booted at third, allowing Spencer to score and reducing the Yankees’ deficit to 3-2.
After not hitting a homer through seven plate appearances in the 1951 Series, the outfielder hit at least one in each of his next seven trips. Thirteen pitches later, Marsh sent a hanging slider soaring 358 feet and just over the right-center wall, where the ball dropped out of the glove of 10-year-old Ty Kuhner of Wilmington, Delaware, and bounced back onto the field. Suarez was shaky at times, but ultimately gave the Phillies exactly what they needed – and the five homers of support certainly helped. The lefty allowed just three hits and walk while striking out four. The latest to accomplish the feat was 2017 World Series MVP George Springer, who smacked five dingers to help the Houston Astros to the first championship in franchise history. In 2009, Chase Utley hit five home runs for the Philadelphia Phillies in a losing effort to the New York Yankees.
Major League Baseball fans, or really just baseball fans in general, love the home run. Players might be trying to hit them a little too much these days with the launch angle and such but it’s always exciting watching a ball leave the yard. Naturally, that feeling gets amplified in the World Series. At the time of Schwarber's, those 10 home runs had come in 43 World Series innings. "I really don't give a shit," he told reporters after Game 4. "Nope. Move on to tomorrow. We'll be in the history books I guess."
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