For the first time since 1995, the Braves sit at very top of the baseball world.
They were crowned 2021 World Series champions after earning a decisive 7-0 victory over the Astros in Game 6 on Tuesday night at Houston’s Minute Maid Park.
Astros starter Luis Garcia looked sharp in the early going, needing just 20 pitches to get through two scoreless frames, but he was working on short rest and appeared to tire rapidly in the top of the third. Ozzie Albies roped a leadoff single to right-center, Eddie Rosario drew a two-out walk, and then Jorge Soler got the party jumping for Atlanta with a tape-measure three-run bomb that sailed over the train tracks in left.