The Astros beat the Phillies in six games to win the World Series, thanks to Yordan Alvarez's 450-foot three-run home run in the clincher.
The Astros won 11 of 13 games this postseason, joining the 2005 Chicago White Sox and 1999 New York Yankees and the ’98 Yankees as the greatest teams in the wild card era, a span in which the greatest teams often got waylaid by playoff randomness, poor decisions or bad luck.
Left-hander Framber Valdez won his second game of this Series, dominating the Phillies with one of the game’s greatest curveballs and a sinking fastball that left the Phillies flailing for most of the night. Valdez struck out five consecutive batters at one point and nine overall, and his Game 2 and 6 aggregate was nearly flawless: 13 ⅓ innings pitched, six hits, two earned runs and 18 strikeouts.
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