Saturday night, finally, it was Dusty Baker’s turn. “It’s going to be a pretty boring offseason,” Alec Bohm said. “Everyone is going to have that taste in their mouth,” Kyle Schwarber said, “and know what it takes to do it.” “This run we went on was no accident,” J.T. The Phillies may never come this close - two wins - again. They made Philadelphia fall back in love with baseball again. These were the final moments for this group - most, but not all will return. “I don’t want to take it off,” Marsh said after a 4-1 loss to the Astros. It had been 30 minutes since Nick Castellanos floated a first-pitch slider into right fielder Kyle Tucker’s glove for the 27th out to end Game 6, and Marsh was still in full uniform. “Two wins away and that’s us,” Stott said. They are two of the youngest players on the National League champions, and they are part of the future that looks far brighter than it did 30 days ago. They leaned on the dugout railing and watched the Astros celebrate a World Series title. When the best 30 days of their baseball lives had ended and orange streamers tumbled from the ceiling at Minute Maid Park, Brandon Marsh put his arm around Bryson Stott. It’s not going to fit your convenient little narratives. You’re not going to like what you’re about to read. “I just think that we’ve proven that we’re an extremely dominant force in this era of baseball.”īut here’s a yellow flashing light for all you Astros haters. said after the 4-1 Game 6 win over the Phillies that closed out this World Series. “Do I think we’re a dynasty? It’s not for us to say or for me to say,” Lance McCullers Jr. And once that confetti starts filling up the sky, the last people who feel a need to explain themselves are usually those people who just won it all. They’re now officially in the modern-dynasty conversation. And if you’re one of those people who don’t want to visit that place, guess what? They don’t give all the algorithms in Texas what you think. I hate to break that to you, but it’s true. They’ve moved into a space where you’ll find only the greatest baseball teams of modern times. You can boo them and loathe them and call them stuff that will never make it into a script of “Teletubbies.” But here’s the deal with 2017-22 Astros now that they’ve sealed World Series championship No. You can judge them however you want to judge them. You can think whatever you want to think.
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