The World Series has begun and as it seems a custom to take the Commissioner’s Trophythere is a player with Mexican roots who is active with one of the novenas in the Fall Classic.
The presence of Alex Verdugo with the New York Yankees It takes us back to the historic Mexican baseball players who have had, and who have won, in the last series of the season in the Major League Baseballhaving to go back to the 1954 season.
The first Mexican to play in a World Series was Beto Ávilawho lost the Fall Classic to the extinct New York Giants as part of the ninth of the Cleveland Indiansit was not until 1973 that another Mexican participated in the World Series, Horacio Piña with the Athletics de Oaklandwho did take the ring that proclaimed him MLB champion.
Enrique Romo (1979} y Fernando Valenzuela (1981) are two Mexicans who also won the World Series, ‘El Toro’ dispatched a compatriot in ’81, the Aztec player from the New York Yankees, Aurelio Rodríguez. Aurelio Lopez (1984), Jorge Orta (1985), Erubiel Durazo (2001) y Benjamin Gil (2002) are players who also won the Fall Classic.
In this decade there are four players who have played in the World Series: Julio Urías, Roberto Osuna, José Urquidy and Víctor González, are the Mexicans who join Alex Verdugo.
Other Mexicans who have played World Series
| Player | Year |
| Karim Garcia | 2003 |
| Joel Zumaya | 2006 |
| Alfredo Aceves | 2009 |
| Sergio Romo | 2010, 2012, 2014 |
| Jorge Cantu | 2010 |
| Jaime Garcia | 2011 |
| Fernando Salas | 2011 |
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