Major League Baseball (MLB) will crown a new champion in the next World Series, which will begin on Friday, October 27. The Texas Rangers and Arizona Rattlers will star in this unprecedented final in the Fall Classic.
The Arizona team defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 4-2 on October 24, in the seventh game of the National League Championship Series.
This will be the second World Series for the Arizona team, which in 2001 faced the historic New York Yankees and became champion of the major leagues for the first time.
The Phillies were left wanting to play their second consecutive World Series, just like what happened to the Houston Astros. The Philadelphia and Houston teams competed for the Major League title in 2022.
How does each team get to the Fall Classic?
Both Rangers and Cascabeles faced their postseason crosses as the weakest teams. However, both gave the surprise and surpassed all their rivals.
The Rangers were the third club with the best record during the 2023 campaign in the American League, only behind the Baltimore Orioles (101 wins) and the Tampa Bay Rays (99 wins).
The Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Rays themselves two games to zero for the AL wild card.
Then, those from Texas eliminated the Orioles in the Division Series, first place in the Eastern Division of the young circuit, and then left the current Major League champions on the road: the Houston Astros.
This is the best version we have seen of the Texan ninth since that brilliant stage between 2010 and 2011, which qualified for two consecutive World Series with Venezuelan Elvis Andrus as the main figure.
In the regular season, the Jingle Bells were the lowest ranked team in the National League with 84 wins and a negative record during the month of July of 24 losses and only 7 wins.
In the wild card series, Arizona dispatched the favorites Milwaukee Brewers and became the rivals of the second team with the best record in the National League this year: the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Arizona hit the big time and swept Los Angeles with three straight victories to return to play in a final of the old circuit after 21 years of their first and only time as monarchs.
Which team has the best chance of winning?
Both the Rangers and the Cascabeles came back in their respective Championship Series in the last two games. Never before have two teams won games six and seven on the road in the qualifying round of the World Series.
Between the Rangers (90 wins and 72 losses) and the Rattlers (84 wins and 78 losses) they combine 174 wins in the 2023 regular season, the fewest in the history of the Fall Classic.
The betting houses give the Texan team a favorite over Arizona, based on their greater consistency during the 2023 campaign. However, Arizona’s performance in the postseason has been equivalent to that of Texas.
The Rangers have a positive record against Arizona of 25 wins and only 21 losses in 46 meetings. In 2023, despite their irregular campaign, the Cascabeles won two of the three matches they had against the Rangers.
This will be the first time since 2016 that the major league’s deciding series does not involve either the Los Angeles Dodgers or the Houston Astros.
The World Series will start on October 27 at 8 pm (Venezuelan time) at the Globe Life in Texas, where games one and two of the series will be played.
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