This felt like a very strange baseball postseason. It started off with the biggest rivalry in baseball being renewed, but only for the one game elimination round. The Red Sox surprised the Yankees, and then stunned the division champion Tampa Bay Rays in the next round. They were crushing the Houston Astros after three games, as well, before Houston suddenly themselves turned it around. It went form total Boston dominance to complete Houston dominance, and that allowed the Astros to cruise to the World Series.
Once there, they faced the surprising Atlanta Braves, who survived to the World Series. I had expected the Astros to win, given their superior experience, with two recent appearances in 2017 and 2019, and outright winning it all in 2017.
But it was not to be. Atlanta proved to be better during this series, and seemed frankly surprisingly dominant. The Braves had a chance to win the series at home in Atlanta, but lost when the Astros pulled off an impressive 9-5 win to bring the series back to Houston.
They may have had hopes of taking advantage of being at home for Game 6 to force a deciding Game 7, which also would have been played in Houston. However, Atlanta took care of that early, taking a lead and just building it up, effectively dominating the game and, in the end, the World Series.
This is the fourth World Series championship win for the Atlanta Braves as a franchise, and their first since 1995. It was the first time that the Brave had reached the World Series in 20 years, and as was already mentioned, it came kind of unexpectedly, in a year where it seemed like the Giants and Dodgers had dominated the National League.
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