The Texas Rangers qualified for the World Series on Monday by winning Game 7 of the American League Championship with a 4-11 victory over the Houston Astros.
Cuban Adolis García hit two homeruns this Monday, drove in five runs and scored three times.
The Rangers (4-3) are playing in their first World Series since 2012, when they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games.
The Houston Astros failed in their mission to repeat the campaign that led them to the Major League title.
The rival of the team from Texas will be the winner of the National League Championship Series, which will be decided in the seventh game by the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Cuban García, who hit seven home runs in the postseason, was the Most Valuable Player of the Championship Series by hitting a home run in four straight games, driving in 15 runs and batting .357 in seven games.
The Rangers also had home runs from Corey Seager and Nathaniel Lowe.
Veteran pitcher Max Scherzer was unable to complete five regular innings. He left the game after 2.2 two-run innings.
Left-handed reliever Jordan Montgomery (3-0) threw 2.1 scoreless innings and earned the win.
Dominican Cristian Javier (2-1) could not live up to expectations and left the game after striking out only one batter and allowing three runs.
Venezuelan José Altuve hit his 27th homerun of the postseason and Alex Bregman his 19th.
The Astros once again had trouble establishing a continuous offense and ended their run in the playoffs with a 1-5 performance in six games at Minute Maid Park in Houston.
The Rangers took the lead in the first inning with three runs on a solo home run by Corey Seager and two RBI singles by Adolis García and Mitch Garver.
Cuban José Abreu singled to leftfield, which drove in Venezuelan José Altuve.
The Rangers added the fourth run with a home run by García in the third inning.
Bregman narrowed the Astros’ deficit with a home run in the third inning.
In the fourth, Evan Carter hit a two-run double and Garcia followed with a two-run single for the team led by Bruce Bochy.
The Ranges increased the penalty to an eight-point lead (2-10) with two more in the sixth on a two-run four-corner hit driven by Nathaniel Lowe.
The Astros added their third run in the seventh, uncontested to center field by Cuban Yordan Álvarez.
García eliminated the Rangers again with his second home run of the game in the eighth inning, a shot that left the boundaries of the field, over the left field wall.
In the last chance on offense for the Astros, Altuve went deep and scored the fourth point for the team led by Dusty Baker.
Cuban left-hander Aroldis Chapman threw 1.1 scoreless innings and Dominican José Leclerc worked an inning in which they scored a run.
Source: El heraldo
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