Astros defeat Dodgers 5-1 to earn their first World Series title
LOS ANGELES - On the ground floor of Dodger Stadium, inside a makeshift room set up for press briefings, a television relayed the joy emanating from the field outside. Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch climbed onto a stage and declared Houston a city of champions. George Springer, the World Series MVP, stood next to a Chevy truck. Carlos Correa proposed to his girlfriend.
The images flickered across the screen in the moments immediately after a 5-1 defeat ended the Los Angeles Dodgers' season in Game 7 of the World Series. After a historic regular season and an idyllic path to their first National League pennant since 1988, the campaign of this group ended with a thud, with a disastrous start by hired gun Yu
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