Soler fouled off a slider, slapping the ball harshly behind third base, and then a fastball, even farther foul. Freeman watched intently from halfway between the on-deck circle and the plate. There was double-barreled action in the Astros bullpen. With the score 0-0 in the third inning Tuesday night, Atlanta put two on with two outs against Luis Garcia.
The ball sailed over the glove of a charging Yordan Álvarez as he crashed into Truist Park’s 6-foot chain link left-field fence and landed in the Astros bullpen for a 3-2 lead that stood up, giving the Braves a three games to one Series lead. Then, after Dansby Swanson hit a tying home run in the seventh inning Saturday at Atlanta, Soler pinch hit against Cristian Javier and got just enough of a hanging slider.
After taking two balls from Framber Valdez, he turned on a 93.7 mph heater at the letters and drove it 382 feet, about four rows deep into the Crawford seats behind the 19-foot high left-field scoreboard. He started off the 117th World Series with something that had not occurred in the first 678 games of baseball’s championship - a home run by the very first batter. Numbers tell only part of the story.Įach home run was a moment in time, a round-trip trio that will be replayed over and over when Soler is introduced for the rest of his life.
It’s actually pretty incredible what he did in the World Series, getting COVID in the NLCS and missing 10 days and then coming back and not missing a beat.” “We’ve known what he can do for so long,” Freddie Freeman said in the interview room as Soler waited to walk up to the podium. Now, he was a World Series star, finishing off the Houston Astros for the Braves’ first World Series title since 1995.Ī bit player during the Chicago Cubs’ drought-smashing victory over Cleveland five years ago, Soler was voted MVP of Atlanta’s six-game Series win over the Astros.
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