![]() “In the best moments of my life, this is probably top five,” said Kirk, a lawyer who lives in Candler Park. Matt Kirk, who watched the game on a big screen outside Manuel’s Tavern with his wife, Brigid, and their 10-month old son, Ronan, clutched a bottle of Champagne and a cigar. Other fans basked in the simple joy of winning. He added, “I’m getting chills now thinking about that.” I was crying! Was one from Mom and one from Dad?” In the seventh-inning stretch, I lit a candle next to their urns, and I asked my parents to give the Braves some help. “I lost my mother five years ago and my father this past May. ![]() I want to win the World Series.Credit: Sam Sinclair / Fresh Take Georgia It took Eddie Rosario, who said afterward, the MVP trophy sitting in front of him: “I want more. For 22 years we’ve wondered what it would take for the Braves to reach the event that, back in the ‘90s, became their autumn home. There’s a new MVP named Eddie, and he has carried a team and a city on the giddiest baseball ride of this century. “I had to have surgery after the playoff because I was carrying the whole team,” Perez said, to much laughter. “Everybody knows,” Perez said, though not everybody did.Īsked if he knew, Soler said he didn’t. This correspondent wondered if Perez recalled the name of the player who’d been the NLCS MVP against the Mets in 1999. He served as an interpreter for a pregame press session with outfielder Jorge Soler. The Eddie Rosario who was deemed surplus to requirements by Minnesota and then Cleveland will live forever in Braves’ annals, same as another Eddie does.Īs it happened, Eddie Perez – long a Braves’ coach, he’s now a special assistant in baseball operations – was at Truist Park on Saturday. This one will head for Texas walking on air. The first three fell short of the World Series. Going by regular-season records, this is the worst Braves’ team of the past four. In this series, the underdog was always the aggressor.īaseball is a funny game. The Braves lost last October because they weren’t quite as good as the Dodgers, who were great. You don’t know they’re coming until they’re here. This didn’t figure to be their breakthrough year – they won 88 games, the fewest among the 10 playoff qualifiers, but that’s the thing about breakthroughs. They didn’t fret when they lost Games 3 and 5 to the Dodgers, no matter how many times they were asked about the similarities to last season, when they’d blown 2-0 and 3-1 series leads. They didn’t worry when they lost Game 1 in Milwaukee. With Rosario setting an even bolder example, they became fearless. It’s among the best playoff series by anyone ever, and it’s a classic case of the right man – though few among us saw Rosario as more than fill-in – appearing at the absolutely right time. Rosario went 14-for-25 against the Dodgers. Rosario had a hit in all four games of the Division Series, his two-run double tying the decisive Game 4, which Freddie Freeman won with a home run. He hit for the cycle in the biggest win of the regular season, a Sunday game after two losses in San Francisco that saw Max Fried throw a shutout. He didn’t make his Braves debut until a month after his acquisition, having had to rehab a sore abdominal. We can’t say Rosario had an immediate impact. Didn’t matter what arm they were throwing with.” Said Snitker: “It was amazing how locked in he was. Said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts: “We had no answer for him – lefties, righties, hitting it the other way, pulling it.” They won a pennant without the great Acuna, which nobody thought possible, but when you’ve got the suddenly great Rosario, all things seem possible. ![]() They outlasted the mighty team that outlasted them over seven games last year. The time after that, he sent the Braves winging toward Houston and the World Series. He led off Saturday’s Game 6 with a single. He hit two home runs and a double in Game 4. Rosario scored the Braves’ first run in the National League Championship Series against the Dodgers. You know because a guy hired to help replace the irreplaceable Ronald Acuna has turned into Ronald Acuna. You know because the Braves plied him from Cleveland for a way-past-it Pablo Sandoval. Explore The AJC's complete coverage on the Braves' winĮddie Rosario was the fourth of the four outfielders general manager Alex Anthopoulos acquired before the July 30 trade deadline. Twenty-two years later, the Braves are again headed to the Fall Classic, and again the trail was blazed by a guy named Eddie. Eddie Perez was playing every day in October 1999 because Javy Lopez tore an ACL in midsummer. When last the Braves reached the World Series, they were led there by a backup catcher. ![]()
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