The MLB season is finally over and the Houston Astros have won the most intense World Series ever. This is the first World Series the Astros have ever won in their time as an MLB team. This ends the third longest drought without a championship in the MLB after 55 years. This is just the 3rd time is baseball history that a series has been played in November and the 36th time there has been a game seven.
In this series 68 runs were scored and 23 home runs were hit. T-mobile donated 20,000 dollars to hurricane relief for every home run hit; a total of 104 home runs were hit, and over 2 million dollars were donated to charity. With all that has happened from the hurricane, many of the players including Jose Altuve, George Springer, and Carlos Correa have donated more than 100,000 dollars combined for hurricane relief.
Many Dodgers fans are very disappointed with their loss in another playoff series but are still loyal to their team. Wilson Moore expressed his loyalty to the Dodgers, “It’s not tempting at all [to switch teams] because I have been a Dodgers fan for so long, even back before the new ownership when we were awful… we have such a great young group of guys and a good farm program and a lot of money.”
The World Series MVP winner was George Springer. Springer finished with eight extra-base hits, three doubles, five home runs, and 29 total bases this World Series. Springer’s five home runs in this series sets a new record passing up Chase Utley in the 2009 World Series when he hit four.
Now the countdown has begun to the new season, which starts on March 29th of 2018.