Ailing star Ronald Acuña Jr., the dynamo of Atlanta’s future, bounded from the dugout to join the celebration for Freeman, the longtime face of the franchise. Soler, a July acquisition who tested positive for the coronavirus in the playoffs, backed Fried early with a monster three-run shot for his third homer against the Astros.įreeman hit an RBI double and then punctuated the romp with a solo home run in the seventh that made it 7-0.īy then, it was a total team effort. General manager Alex Anthopoulos, the architect of the Braves' midseason turnaround, missed this crowning achievement after testing positive for COVID-19. “Injuries, every single kind of thing that could happen, that could go wrong went wrong, and we overcame every single one of those things.”Įven so, Atlanta's troubles never fully went away. "We hit every pothole, every bump you could possibly hit this year," Freeman said. Max Fried threw six dominant innings in a signature pitching performance to close it out.
Jorge Soler, Freddie Freeman and the Braves breezed to their first World Series championship since 1995, hammering the Houston Astros 7-0 on Tuesday night in Game 6. Yet out of nowhere, suddenly, these Atlanta Braves transformed themselves and took off. They lost their most dynamic player before the All-Star break.
They dropped their first four games, and soon injuries piled up. HOUSTON (AP) - Most of the season, it just seemed this wasn’t their year.
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