In his previous 5 video games, Adolis Garcia has six dwelling runs and 15 RBI. That’s greater than the mixed totals for Tampa, Miami, Toronto, and Milwaukee this postseason (10 runs, 1 dinger). It’s greater than what the Dodgers and Braves collectively may muster in the NLDS (13 runs, 4 homers), and tops the 101-win Orioles’ 2023 playoff manufacturing (11 runs, 4 dwelling runs). And who is aware of when Garcia will cease levitating, as a result of it’ll be laborious to convey him again all the way down to earth after his heroics in Game 1 of the World Series on Friday.
The Texas Rangers overcame a 5-3 ninth-inning deficit by way of a Corey Seager two-run shot earlier than Garcia put himself — and the opening sport — firmly in the annals of postseason historical past in the underside of the eleventh for a 6-5 win. It was the seventeenth walkoff in World Series historical past, the primary since 2018, and the second in Rangers’ historical past. (Nelson Cruz ended Game 2 of the 2011 Fall Classic with a walkoff grand slam.)
Some will query Torey Lovullo’s resolution to pitch to Garcia, and that will be honest as a result of Garcia is wielding Excalibur prefer it’s a Wiffle ball bat. I do know there was one away, no person on, and it appears foolish to deliberately stroll the primary batter following a pitching change, however come on.
The ALCS MVP has been stirring the Rangers’ drinks all October, and as quickly because the rely ran to 3-1, I don’t need the subsequent pitch wherever close to the zone.
To be sincere, Miguel Castro didn’t even make that egregious of a mistake; it was a sinker in the decrease third of the strike zone, and, as John Smoltz identified on the printed, Garcia simply occurred to hit the ball precisely the place it was pitched. Compared to the no doubters the 30-year-old has put into orbit not too long ago, the other discipline walkoff was tame.
Of course it wasn’t, as a result of it known as sport, however Texas followers beckoned the oppo shot over the precise discipline wall as a lot as Garcia.
It’s at all times superb when a slugger will get on a heater. Hitting a baseball may be probably the most tough activity in sports activities, but when somebody with Adolis Garcia’s expertise is seeing all the things, opposing managers, pitchers and followers detest every at bat. You know they’re muttering, “This guy? Again?” beneath their breath as he’s strolling into the field, with the joviality of Mario storming Bowser’s citadel.
“Hey, itsa me, Adolis!”
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