HOUSTON (AP) — Adolis García homered twice and drove in five runs as the Texas Rangers reached the World Series with an 11-4 blowout of the Houston Astros in Game 7 of the AL Championship Series on Monday night.
García went deep for the fourth straight game and set a record for RBIs in a postseason series with 15. Corey Seager got things started for the Rangers with a long home run in the first inning, and Nathaniel Lowe also went deep to give Texas — one of six major league teams without a World Series title — its first berth in the Fall Classic since consecutive trips in 2010 and 2011.
The defending World Series champion Astros were finally dethroned. It fittingly came at home, where they went 40-47 this year, including losing all four home games in this series. They won all three at Texas and came home a win shy of a third straight pennant, but their pitching staff got pounded for 20 runs in the final two games.
Texas starter Max Scherzer, acquired from the Mets in July, wasn’t great in this one, allowing four hits and two runs with two walks in 2 2/3 innings. But the Rangers took advantage of an early flop by Cristian Javier. García, who had four hits, slugged his sixth home run this postseason to make it 4-1 in the third before the Astros cut it to two on a home run by Alex Bregman in the bottom of the inning.
The slugger was booed throughout the game for a second straight night after being at the center of a bench-clearing scuffle in Game 5 after being hit by a pitch from Astros reliever Bryan Abreu.
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