When Does Atlanta Braves Play Again
Jorge Soler named World Serial MVP
From CNN'due south Mike Hayes
Atlanta Braves Jorge Soler was named the MVP of the Earth Series.
Soler becomes just the second Cuban to win the Globe Series MVP. Marlins pitcher Livan Hernandez won the award in 1997.
Soler delivered three go-ahead home runs for his squad during the World Series. His first home run of the series came in the first at-bat of Game 1 — the first time that a player has ever led off a Globe Series Game 1 with a homer.
Soler turned heads when he blasted a 3-run home run in the superlative of the tertiary inning of the decisive Game 6 off Astros starter Luis Garcia to give the Braves the lead. While Statcast measured that the distance of Soler'southward homer was 446 feet, his moonshot sailed out of the ballpark, reminding baseball fans of when Albert Pujols launched a similar-looking habitation run off Astros closer Brad Lidge in the 2005 National League Title Series in the same stadium.
Soler is the fourth Dauntless to have three home runs in a unmarried World Series, joining Hank Aaron (1957), Lonnie Smith (1991) and Ryan Klesko (1995).
Atlanta Braves win first World Series since 1995
From CNN'due south Jason Kurtz
For only the 2nd time since the franchise relocated to Atlanta in 1966, the Braves are World Series champions.
Paced by 3 home runs, and backed by six shutout innings from starter Max Fried, the Braves defeat the Houston Astros 7-0 in Game vi, in the process capturing the crown that had eluded them since 1995.
Designated hitter Jorge Soler, acquired from the Kansas City Royals on July 30, started the scoring off with a bang in the tertiary, launching a towering, 446-foot iii-run homer over the train tracks in left field. 2 frames later, shortstop Dansby Swanson followed with a 2-run shot of his own, staking Fried to a comfortable five-run cushion that he'd never relinquish.
Touched upwards by the Astros for half dozen runs in a Game 2 commencement, the 27-yr-erstwhile southpaw rebounded in dramatic mode for Game 6, scattering four hits over six innings, striking out half-dozen Astros, and walking none while failing to allow a single run. Fried'southward outing marked the longest past a starter, for either team, in the 2021 World Series.
The World Series title is a surprising ane for a team that lost its all-time position role player on July 10 when All-Star outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr. went down with a flavour-ending human knee injury. Atlanta finished the regular season with but 88 wins, fewer than 11 other teams in baseball. And the odds further stacked up against the Braves when Game 1 starting pitcher Charlie Morton broke his leg in only the second inning, catastrophe his World Series. One man who the Braves were never without, however, is Freddie Freeman. And now Freeman'southward long wait for a title is over.
Drafted by the Braves in 2007, and called up in September of 2010, Freeman has spent more than a decade with the franchise, a run that included a scattering of lean years. But Freeman stayed true to the squad that chose him, and in Game half-dozen the Atlanta veteran chipped in with a 5th inning RBI double. 2 frames later, Freeman put a stamp on what is probable a Hall of Fame resume, belting the Braves' 3rd homer of the game, and extending Atlanta's lead to seven-0.
A pair of Atlanta relief pitchers — in the form of Tyler Matzek and Volition Smith — combined to piece of work a scoreless final iii frames, clinching the 7-0 victory and ending a championship drought that stretched back more than a quarter-century.
Soler, who launched three Earth Series dwelling house runs — all of which gave the Braves the lead — earned MVP honors, while outfielder Joc Pederson — who was with the earth champion LA Dodgers a year agone — wins back-to-back World Series.
Atlanta Braves win the Earth Series
From CNN's Mike Hayes
The Atlanta Braves vanquish the Houston Astros in the 2021 Earth Series.
The Braves accept the best-of-seven serial 4-2.
It is Atlanta'south first World Series title since 1995.
We're heading to the bottom of the 9th
From CNN'due south Mike Hayes
It's the Houston Astros' last adventure in Game 6. They accept a lot of work to practice. Houston is abaft vii-0 going into their last at-bat.
Michael Brantley, Carlos Correa and Yordan Alvarez due upwards for the Astros.
Tyler Matzek with two key innings in relief
From CNN's Mike Hayes
Braves reliever Tyler Matzek put in two shutout innings of work in the 7th and 8th inning to preserve Atlanta's vii-0 lead in Game 6.
Matzek took over for starter Max Fried, who was lights-out tonight, pitching half-dozen scoreless innings for the Braves.
Matzek struck out 4 and gave upwardly merely 1 hit. He struck out the side in the eighth.
The Braves are now three outs away from the Earth Serial championship.
Freddie Freeman adds a solo HR, Braves upwards vii-0
From CNN's Jason Kurtz
Freddie Freeman fabricated his Major League debut with the Braves in September of 2010. It's been a long 11-yr expect, but he'due south now less than 9 outs away from acquiring the sole missing piece on his likely Hall of Fame resume.
With his mammoth 7th inning blast, Freeman extends Atlanta's Game vi pb to 7-0, in the procedure bringing that elusive World Series title that much closer.
On the night, six of the Braves' 7 runs have come courtesy of the long ball, every bit Freeman followed teammate Jorge Soler and Dansby Swanson's earlier dingers.
Information technology'south now vii-0 Braves as the Astros bat in the bottom of the 7th.
Soler joins small list in Braves history to hit 3 60 minutes in a single Earth Series
From CNN's Leinz Vales
With Atlanta Braves Jorge Soler's latest home run in Game 6 of the 2021 World Series, the Cuban-born outfielder becomes the 4th Braves role player to hit three habitation runs in a single World Series.
Soler joined Hank Aaron (1957), Lonnie Smith (1991), and Ryan Klesko (1995) on the list.
Atlanta holds onto 6-0 atomic number 82 in the seventh
From CNN's Mike Hayes
The Atlanta Braves are nine outs abroad from the World Series title.
Atlanta'southward starter has delivered for his team tonight. Max Fried has thrown 6 scoreless innings, assuasive just 4 singles, no walks and hitting out six batters.
Atlanta six, Houston 0.
Freddie Freeman and Atlanta add some other run
From CNN's Jason Kurtz
The Braves are starting to gustation it.
One win away from the franchise's starting time championship in more than a quarter-century, an RBI double by Atlanta mainstay Freddie Freeman extends the Braves' pb to half dozen-0 in the 5th.
Freeman'south blast to left field was deep plenty to allow Jorge Soler to score all the way from first, chasing Astros reliever Blake Taylor, and bringing in Houston's fifth pitcher of the game, Phil Maton.
Freeman's RBI comes three batters after shortstop Dansby Swanson belted a ii-run shot to put the Braves upwardly v-0.
It's now 6-0 Atlanta, as Houston bats in the bottom of the 5th.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/sport/live-news/world-series-2021-braves-astros-game-6/index.html
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