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      <ul class="mol-bullets-with-font"><li class=""><strong>Houston wins first title in franchise's 56-year history  </strong></li><li class=""><strong>MVP George Springer tied World Series record with his fifth home run of the Fall Classic on Wednesday</strong></li><li class=""><strong>Owner Jim Crane: 'This one is for Houston back there at home and the region' </strong></li><li class=""><strong>Houston shortstop Carlos Correa proposed to his girlfriend, Miss Texas Daniella Rodriguez, after the win </strong></li><li class=""><strong>The Dodgers and Astros combined to hit 25 home runs in the series, surpassing the previous seven-game series record of 21 set by the Anaheim Angels and San Francisco Giants in 2002</strong></li><li class=""><strong>Yuri Gurriel was booed again after being caught making a racist gesture in Game 3. He has been suspended for the first five games of the 2018 season for the act, which was a reference to Dodgers pitcher Yu Darvish </strong></li><li class=""><strong>Springer's 29 total bases is the most for any one player in any one postseason series </strong></li><li class=""><strong>One gambler reportedly made $14 million by correctly picking the winner in each of the first six games </strong></li><li class=""><strong>The Dodgers, who stranded 10 runners on Wednesday night, have not won a World Series for 30 years</strong></li><li class=""><strong>A parade is scheduled in Houston on Friday to celebrate the Astros first World Series crown </strong></li></ul><p class="author-section byline-plain">By

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</div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Springer tied the World Series home run mark set by Reggie Jackson in 1977 and matched by Chase Utley in 2009 by connecting for a record fourth game in a row. The homer gave the Astros an early 5-0 lead. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'I didn't make adjustments or the stuff that I didn't have hurt,' said Dodgers starter Yu Darvish, who did not make it out of the second inning. 'It hurt the team. But this pain is going to stay in me for a while. I've just got to learn from it and just go from there.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The five-run lead was plenty for  Hinch.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The Astros manager pulled starter Lance McCullers Jr. soon after the curveballer plunked his fourth batter of the game, and began a bullpen parade of four relievers that held the lead.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Forever known for their space-age Astrodome, outlandish rainbow jerseys and a handful of heartbreaking playoff losses, these Astros will be remembered as champions, finally, in their 56th season.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The club that wears a star on its hat also filled out the Texas trophy case. Teams from the Lone Star State had won most every major crown - Super Bowl, NBA and NHL titles, championships in college football, and men's and women's hoops - except the World Series.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Built on the skills of homegrown All-Stars Carlos Correa, Dallas Keuchel and more, and boosted by the slick trade for Justin Verlander, general manager Jeff Luhnow completed the ascent that some predicted.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font"></p><div class="mol-img-group xwArtSplitter" style="">    <div class="mol-img" style="height: auto;">  <div class="image-wrap">
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</div>    <p class="imageCaption">Fans watch TV at Tom's Urban restaurant and bar in the L.A. Live entertainment complex in downtown Los Angeles</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font"></p><p class="mol-para-with-font"></p><p class="mol-para-with-font"></p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Correa actually proposed to his girlfriend - Miss Texas Daniella Rodriguez - immediately after the win.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'He had been so focused on the game,' Rodriguez said. 'All he ever talked about was winning the World Series, so I never really thought something like this would be on his mind, so when it all went down, I was just shocked.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">She also had no idea Correa had been urged to put a ring on it by his mother, and he was plotting a proposal for several weeks. Even Correa's teammates were in on the scheme: Carlos Beltran, the Astros' 40-year-old slugger, helped the 23-year-old shortstop pick out the ring.</p><div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS news" data-version="2" id="mol-96b6e6c0-bf99-11e7-8e3e-c5faef1a22f6">                            <h3 class="mol-factbox-title">2017 WORLD SERIES </h3>                            <div class="ins cleared mol-factbox-body">                                <p class="mol-para-with-font"><span class="mol-style-bold">At Dodger Stadium</span></p><ul class="mol-bullets-with-font"><li>Game 1: Dodgers 3, Astros 1</li><li class="">Game 2: Astros 7, Dodgers 6</li></ul><p class="mol-para-with-font"><span class="mol-style-bold">At Minute Maid Park</span></p><ul class="mol-bullets-with-font"><li class="">Game 3: Astros 5, Dodgers 3</li><li>Game 4: Dodgers 6, Astros 2</li><li class="">Game 5: Astros 13, Dodgers 12 (10 innings)</li></ul><p class="mol-para-with-font"><span class="mol-style-bold">At Dodger Stadium</span></p><ul class="mol-bullets-with-font"><li class="">Game 6: Dodgers 3, Astros 1</li><li class="">Game 7: Astros 5, Dodgers 1</li></ul>                            </div>                        </div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Correa said he gambled and waited for a dramatic finale to the Astros' first championship year.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'I knew we had championship potential, so I decided to hold out until the last game of the season,' Correa said.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Rodriguez said yes, once she regained the ability to speak.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">While Correa went to the clubhouse to spray champagne, Rodriguez gleefully flashed the huge ring to her fellow Astros wives and girlfriends, including Kate Upton.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">She'll need a bit longer to get over the shock, however.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'Everyone knew besides me,' Rodriguez said. 'I'm really good at finding stuff out. Every time I had a surprise birthday party, I would always find out. So I was literally in just the complete dark about this. Everyone knew but me.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Correa and Rodriguez are living together in Houston with a beautiful puppy named Groot. Correa, the 2015 AL Rookie of the Year, had five homers and 14 RBIs in an outstanding postseason, capped by eight hits in the World Series, including two homers.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">But when he wasn't raking, Correa was getting ready to surprise Rodriguez.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'I saw a picture of the ring two days ago,' Astros third baseman Alex Bregman said. 'We were supposed to do it (after) Game 6, but then we didn't play our game. Came back today, won the World Series, the guy proposed to his girlfriend. It was unbelievable.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The TV proposal brought back memories of Boise State running back Ian Johnson's surprise on-camera proposal to his girlfriend , Broncos cheerleader Chrissy Popadics, after Boise State's stunning 43-42 victory over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 1, 2007. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"></p><div class="mol-img-group xwArtSplitter" style="">    <div class="mol-img">  <div class="image-wrap">
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</div>    <p class="imageCaption">Daniella Rodriguez, former Miss Texas shows off the engagement ring that she received from Astros shortstop Carlos Correa</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">The Astros added their name to the recent list of Major League franchises that have ended World Series droughts.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">A season ago, the Chicago Cubs overcame a 3-1 deficit to beat the Cleveland Indians and win their first World Series since 1908.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The San Francisco Giants ended a 55-year drought in 2010 with a 4-1 win over the Texas Rangers; the Chicago White Sox defeated the Astros in 2005 for the franchise's first title since 1917; and the Boston Red Sox ended their supposed curse in 2004 by sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'I mean, I think the key was staying very humble about the team we are,' said Astros second baseman and likely American League MVP Jose Altuve. 'We all know how good and how much talent we have in that clubhouse. But we never take it for granted. We also knew that we were playing the Dodgers, and they are one of the best teams, most consistent teams in the league. And they were playing extremely good in the playoffs.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The Dodgers stranded eight runners over the first five innings, but ultimately got on the board in the sixth inning on an RBI-single by Andre Ethier. </p><div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS news" data-version="2" id="mol-ac5da810-bf99-11e7-8e3e-c5faef1a22f6">                            <h3 class="mol-factbox-title">2017 WORLD SERIES FACTS AND FIGURES </h3>                            <div class="ins cleared mol-factbox-body">                                <ul class="mol-bullets-with-font"><li class="">The Dodgers and Astros combined to hit 25 home runs, surpassing the previous seven-game series record of 21 set by the Anaheim Angels and San Francisco Giants in 2002</li><li class="">Eight players in the series hit multiple home runs, including World Series MVP George Springer, who tied a World Series record with five</li><li class="">Springer also set a postseason record with 29 bases in a single series  </li><li class="">The Dodgers have not won a World Series since 1988</li></ul>                            </div>                        </div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Game 5 hero Alex Bregman reached second on the Bellinger error in the first and eventually scored on a sacrifice by Altuve. (Altuve finished the playoffs as one of only eight players in Major League history to hit seven-plus home runs in a single postseason, joining teammate Carlos Beltrán).</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">McCullres actually gave the Astros a 3-0 lead in the second with a sacrifice that scored catcher Brian McCann. McCullers is the first America League pitcher to get an RBI in the World Series since 2009.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Los Angeles' Chris Taylor led off with a double of his own in the bottom of the first. In fact, the Dodgers ultimately loaded the bases in the frame after McCullers hit two batsman. But, thanks to a pair of strikeouts and one groundout, Houston survived unscathed.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">McCullers would go on to hit Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner for a second time in the third inning to set a World Series record with four hit batsman in one game.  </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">In the third, Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw was brought in for his fifth ever postseason relief appearance. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The Dodgers finally got a run in the sixth, thanks to Ethier's RBI single off of Charlie Morton.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Ethier batted for Kershaw, who allowed two hits in four scoreless innings, and singled to right. But Taylor struck out and Corey Seager hit a broken-bat groundout as Morton avoided the bat, leaving the Dodgers 1 for 13 RISP with 10 left on base.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">It was a clunker of an ending for baseball's best team during the regular season.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The Dodgers won 104 games, boasted an NL-leading six All-Stars and won the NL West for the fifth consecutive year. They won 43 of 50 games over a two-month stretch from June to early August, the best 50-game run in the majors since the 1912 New York Giants.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Their lead reached a whopping 21 games on Aug. 23, and they survived an 11-game September skid to coast into October.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Boasting the majors' highest payroll of $240 million, Los Angeles rolled past Arizona in the NL Division Series and then knocked off the defending champion Cubs in six games in the NL Championship Series to reach their first World Series since 1988.</p><div class="moduleFull mol-video"><div class="item">
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</div>    <p class="imageCaption">Model Kate Upton attends Game 7 on Wednesday. Upton is the fiancee of Astros pitcher Justin Verlander</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">The night wasn't entirely pleasant for the Astros.  </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Yuri Gurriel was booed loudly again in the first inning on Wednesday before flying out to left field. The Astros first baseman was recently suspended for the first five games of the 2018 season after being seen making a racist gesture in the Houston dugout during Game 3.</p><div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS news" data-version="2" id="mol-dfc00e60-bf89-11e7-8e3e-c5faef1a22f6">                            <h3 class="mol-factbox-title">SPORTS ILLUSTRATED PREDICTED IT IN 2014 </h3>                            <div class="ins cleared mol-factbox-body">                                <div class="mol-img-group xwArtSplitter" style="">    <div class="mol-img">  <div class="image-wrap">
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</div>    <p class="imageCaption">In June 2014, Sports Illustrated predicted that the Astros would win the 2017 World Series. George Springer, the World Series MVP, graced the cover of that issue</p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Once derided as a sarcastic gimmick to sell magazines, Sports Illustrated's 2014 cover predicting the Houston Astros would win the 2017 World Series suddenly seems very prescient.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">At the time, the Astros were coming off a Major League-worst 51-111 season, which is why it was such a shock to see a cover announcing the Astros as 'Your 2017 World Series Champions.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'It was kind of farfetched,' said Astros starting pitcher Dallas Keuchel. 'And I talked to a couple of the SI guys who wrote the article and for them to write it, it's kind of unbelievable.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font"> </p>                            </div>                        </div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Gurriel was seemingly referencing Darvish, who is from Japan.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">On Wednesday, Gurriel did tip his hat to Darvish before stepping to the plate.  </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Gurriel was previously booed by the Dodger faithful during introductions on Tuesday and again before his first at-bat in Game 6.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">In fact, Dodgers starter Rich Hill stepped off the mound after Gurriel was announced, which gave the home fans more time to show their displeasure. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Hill described it as his 'silent gesture' to condemn Gurriel's racist gesture toward Darvish after homering off the hurler last Friday.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'This is a very close group, and for him to acknowledge that moment on behalf of Yu, I'm sure that Yu appreciated that,' Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said before Game 7.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'The fans obviously got to voice their displeasure.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">During Game 3, the Cuban-born Gurriel could be seen pulling on the corners of his eyes after homering off Darvish during Houston's 5-3 win. He also used a derogatory Spanish term in reference to Darvish, who was born in Japan.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'I made an offensive gesture that was indefensible,' Gurriel said in a statement released by the Astros. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'I sincerely apologize to everyone that I offended with my actions. I deeply regret it.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'I would particularly like to apologize to Yu Darvish, a pitcher that I admire and respect. I would also like to apologize to the Dodgers organization, the Astros, Major League Baseball and to all fans across the game,' he said.  </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Gurriel will lose $322,581 of his $12 million salary next year, which the Astros will donate to charitable causes. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Darvish has downplayed the incident.  </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'When a Dodgers staffer told me what was happening, at the time, it's not like I was that irritated by it,' Darvish said through an interpreter. 'About the extent of my reaction was me telling [interpreter Hideaki] Sato, 'He did something he shouldn't have done. This is going to be a problem, isn't it?' But I wasn't angry at all.'</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Gurriel attempted to apologize to Darvish, but the Dodgers hurler did not deem it necessary. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">'I was told the next day told he wanted to speak to me, and I communicated to him that it was completely unnecessary and that I wasn't bothered by it,' Darvish said. 'Even now, I'm not bothered by it at all.' </p><p class="mol-para-with-font"></p><p class="mol-para-with-font">One baseball fan has earned over $14 million by betting on the eventual winner of the first six games of the series. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">According to Associated Press odds provider <a style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" class="" rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/RJinVegas/status/925858168680230912">RJ Bell</a>, that fan did not bet on Game 7, deciding to keep his winnings instead. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">On Tuesday night the unknown gambler had $8 million riding on Game 6, which the Dodgers ultimately won, as he predicted.  </p><div class="mol-img-group floatXWHalfRHS" style="">    <div class="mol-img" style="height: auto;">  <div class="image-wrap">
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</div>    <p class="imageCaption">One gambler made the smart decision on Wednesday by holding on to his $14 million in winnings from the first six games </p></div><p class="mol-para-with-font">Since the World Series began on October 26, the gambler has taken his winnings from each game and placed them all on the following contest. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Introduced as the National League's Houston Colt .45s in 1962, the Astros changed their name upon moving into baseball's first domed stadium, the Astrodome, in 1965. The franchise has never won a World Series, but did represent the National League in 2005 before losing to the Chicago White Sox. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The Astros moved to the American League in 2010, and have mostly been rebuilding until 2015, when they reached the first round of the playoffs. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">This season the Astros led the American League in runs scored, batting average and slugging percentage while allowing only 700 runs - fewer than all but eight teams. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The Astros defeated the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees in the playoffs en route to the World Series.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">A parade is schedule for Friday in Houston. <strong><span class="mol-style-bold"> </span></strong></p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The Dodgers turned to pitching legends Don Newcombe and Sandy Koufax for ceremonial first pitches before Game 7. </p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The right-handed Newcombe tossed the ball to Rick Monday, while lefty Koufax threw to Steve Garvey.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">The 91-year-old Newcombe hung onto the 81-year-old Koufax's arm as they walked onto the field. They stood midway between the mound and home plate to make their throws.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Newcombe was a member of the franchise's 1955 World Series championship team. Koufax was World Series MVP in 1963 and 1965.</p><p class="mol-para-with-font">Before the game, Newcombe was sitting in his usual seat near the Dodgers dugout and entertained a steady stream of well-wishers. Hall of Famer Dave Winfield stopped by, along with current Dodgers Kenley Jansen and Andre Ethier and actor Ken Jeong.</p><div class="mol-img-group xwArtSplitter" style="">    <div class="mol-img">  <div class="image-wrap">
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