Game 2 Final - Texas Rangers (1) vs Arizona Diamondbacks (9)
Game 2 Final - Texas Rangers (1) vs Arizona Diamondbacks (9)
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7th inning stretch - Arizona Diamondbacks (0) vs Texas Rangers (3)
Game 3 final - Arizona Diamondbacks (1) vs Texas Rangers (3)
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7th inning stretch - Arizona Diamondbacks (1) vs Texas Rangers (10)
Final, game 4 - Arizona Diamondbacks (7) vs Texas Rangers (11)
7th inning stretch - Arizona Diamondbacks (0) vs Texas Rangers (1)
Rangers win their first World Series in 5 games
Arizona Diamondbacks (0) vs Texas Rangers (5)
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Corey Seager wins 2023 World Series Most Valuable Player Award and becomes 4th player to win it twice
As a reward for helping the Rangers claim their first World Series title, Corey Seager earned his second Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet.
Seager, who also won the honor with the Dodgers in 2020, finds himself in exclusive company after the Rangers finished off the D-backs with a 5-0 win in Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday night at Chase Field.
Seager is just the fourth player to win multiple World Series MVP Awards, joining Hall of Famers Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson and Reggie Jackson. Only Seager and Jackson -- who won the 1973 honor with the A's and the '77 award with the Yankees -- accomplished the feat with different teams.
“Yeah, I mean, I don't think you can ever fathom that,” Seager said. “It's a pretty special group to be part of.”
But in typical Seager fashion, he mostly deflected the praise.
“It truly is incredible, but it's not just me, man,” Seager said. “What this team did and how we competed and all the guys in there rallying, we don't really have one leader.”
Seager homered in three of the five games in the 2023 Fall Classic. He went 6-for-21 (.286) with three home runs, one double, three walks, six RBIs and six runs scored.
“I don't know what else to say about the man; he's just incredible,” said Rangers manager Bruce Bochy. “He's a guy you want up there, obviously.”
Added teammate Travis Jankowski: "It's insane. He's just the best player on the planet.”
It all started with Seager’s series-altering smash in Game 1. Trailing by two in the bottom of the ninth, Seager clubbed a game-tying two-run homer that sent the Globe Life Field crowd into a frenzy. Adolis García walked it off two innings later.
After Texas dropped Game 2, Seager got the club back on track with a clutch two-out, two-run homer in the third inning of Game 3 at Chase Field. That proved to be the decisive moment in a 3-1 victory.
One night later, Seager put the stamp on a five-run second inning when he blasted another two-out, two-run shot to help the Rangers seize control en route to an 11-7 win in Game 4.
Then, with the Rangers being no-hit through six innings in Game 5, Seager poked a ball through the left side for a leadoff single in the seventh. He scored what proved to be the game-winning run on Mitch Garver's single.
“The biggest takeaway for me is just how calm and how present he is at all times, no matter if we're getting beat really bad or we're up a lot,” rookie Evan Carter said after Game 3. “Just how calm and how he is where his feet are. I really envy that. I really try to emulate that in my own game.”
Texas Rangers' 2023 World Series parade and celebration in Arlington
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