Yordan Alvarez flipped a game and a city with a three-run homer over the highest of walls in center field to send the Houston Astros to a World Series championship. A slim lead camp apart spectacularly on the Philadelphia Phillies when Alvarez greeted reliever Jose Alvarado with a lead-vaporizing homer that launched a 4-1 victory Saturday night at Minute Maid Park in Game 6 of the 118th Fall Classic. The Astros won their second World Series as a franchise, their second in the past five years, and it was a mammoth, 450-foot homer that lifted them there.
For one night, nothing else was bigger in Texas.