We are here!! It is the fall classic, and it should be an amazing matchup. After sweeping the Cardinals the Washington Nationals, coming all the way from the NL Wildcard, are representing the NL in their first-ever world series appearance. On the other side, the team with the best regular-season record in the MLB, the Houston Astros, are representing the AL. Let’s get into it, The 2019 WORLD SERIES.
Washington Nationals (NL 4) vs Houston Astros (AL 1):
The Astros have the Home field advantage because of their amazing regular-season record, so they will have the very important Game 1,2,6,7 home games. In their previous series, they beat the Yankees 4-2, with two of their four wins, caused by walk-off homeruns. After their electric ALCS series, they will now have to face the feisty Washington Nationals. They are coming off an NLCS series sweep, where they DOMINATED the Cardinals. The Nats never trailed in the whole series. The pitching has been amazing, only allowing 6 runs total in the series. In the first two games, Anibal Sanchez and Max Scherzer had No-Hitters going into the 7th inning. The Astros also pitched well against the powerful Yankees offense. Besides Game 1, with the struggling Zack Greinke, they never allowed more than 4 runs. Gerrit Cole has pitched AMAZING this postseason. In his 3 Postseason starts his stats are; 0.40 ERA, 22.2 innings, 3 wins, 0.79 WHIP, and 32 strikeouts. On the other side, Sanchez, Stephen Strasburg, and Scherzer all have under 2.00 ERA’s. This has been helpful because their bullpen, worst in MLB in the regular season, has only had to pitch a combined 18.5 innings the whole playoffs. They will be challenged against the explosive Astros bats, lead by Jose Altuve. Coming off a series-winning walk-off bomb, Altuve is hitting .349 with a playoff leading 5 homeruns. The Nats have Anthony Rendon, with the best batting average of players in this series. Although he is coming off of a loss, Justin Verlander has lots of WS experience, having pitched in 5 World Series games, in his career. I feel that Zack Greinke will bounce back and pull off a win in this series. I definitely think it will go 7 games, and be a thrilling finish. Although I will be rooting for the Nationals to win, I think the ‘Stros will pull it off. I can definitely see the Natitude being so real, and the Nats wanting it more, bringing a World Series trophy to Washington for the first time ever. The thought of Gerrit Cole pitching in Houston for Game 7, is what gives them the advantage for me, to win their second World Series in 3 years.
Astros over Nationals in 7 (4-3)
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