The Dodgers celebrated winning the <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2023/01/mlb-padres-award-one-year-23-million-contract-to-outfielder-juan-soto/" title="MLB: Padres award one-year, million contract to outfielder Juan Soto”>2024 World Series through the streets of Los Angeles, where they also remembered the Mexican Fernando Valenzuela, who died on October 22, 2024 and that November 1 would be his birthday.
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Los Dodgers They traveled along different avenues aboard several buses, where their families accompanied the heroes of Los Angeles.
Major League Baseball (MLB) published an image showing Fernando Valenzuela in his time as a player and as a commentator.
“On a day of celebration, a moment to remember Fernando Valenzuela on what would have been his 64th birthday,” was the message he published on social networks.
Last Wednesday, the Dodgers They won their eighth World Series after beating the New York Yankees 7-6.
In a last heart-stopping duel, the Los Angeles team first equaled an initial 0-5 by the Yankees in a frenetic fifth inning and then came back again with two winning runs in the eighth.
Prior to the first game of the World Series, the Dodgers and his fans paid tribute to the Mexican Fernando Valenzuela.
The welcome sign at Dodger Stadium became an altar filled with bouquets of flowers and Mexican flags in honor of the great pitcher, whose emergence into the Major Leagues in 1981 unleashed a sporting and cultural phenomenon throughout the United States known as the ‘ Fernandomania’.
‘El Toro’ Valenzuela died at the age of 63 last Tuesday, the same week in which Dodgers and Yankees have faced each other in a World Series precisely since 1981, when the Los Angeles team won the title with the Mexican as a key piece.
That same year he became the only baseball player to win the award. Cy Young for best pitcher and Rookie of the Year in the same season.
Inside the stadium, packed with about 56,000 fans, Mexican songs played while the video scoreboards showed photographs and some of the best plays of Valenzuela, who played 11 seasons in Los Angeles and won two championships (1981 and 1988).
After the departure of both teams, Steve Yeager and Orel Hershiser, the winners of the MVP award (Most Valuable Player) of the 1981 and 1988 World Series, appeared on the field, wearing a uniform of the Dodgers and the number 34 of his former teammate Fernando Valenzuela.
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