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Adolis Garcia Hits Walk-Off Home Run to Give Texas Rangers World Series Game 1 Victory

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Adolis Garcia continues his postseason home run fury…

Two innings after Corey Seager smashed a score-tying home run to send Game 1 of the World Series into extra innings, the 30-year-old Cuban professional baseball outfielder sliced an opposite-field walk-off home run into the right-field stands to give the Texas Rangers a 6-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Adolis GarciaGarcia, the hottest hitter on the planet in the moment, earlier in the game had tied David Freese for the most RBIs in a single postseason with 21. He then broke the record on a 97-mph sinker from right-hander Miguel Castro in the 11th inning that ran over the plate and into his unstoppable bat.

Garcia is coming off an American League Championship Series in which he hit five home runs and drove in 15 runs and now has homered in five consecutive games, one shy of the postseason record.

It was the first walk-off home run in a Game 1 of the World Series since Kirk Gibson limped around the bases in 1988.

“He’s just a bad man,” Rangers reliever Dane Dunning said. “Wow. That’s all I can really say. He’s just — he’s that guy.”

McCreery Hits a National Anthem Homer Despite Mic Issue…

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He may have experienced a slight mic malfunction on his first at-bat, but Scotty McCreery didn’t let that stop him from performing a rousing, countrified rendition of the National Anthem last night at Game 1 of the World Series…

McCreery’s microphone didn’t appear to be on when he originally launched into “The Star-Spangled Banner,” so the 18-year-old North Carolina native started over again. In no time, his deep voice filled St. Louis’ Busch Stadium.

Wearing jeans and a windbreaker with the words “World Series” written across the front, the part-Puerto Rican singer’s rendition was basically flawless. The “American Idol” winner didn’t flub any lines or skip verses. He just performed the National Anthem beautifully in his country style.

For the huge baseball fan, this was probably one of the biggest moments of his life, especially with First Lady Michelle Obama in attendance. And he took the task seriously, barely cracking a smile until the very end.

“well, as mr George Strait would say, I wasn’t here for a long time, but I was here for a good time! Great time in St. Louis yesterday!” he’d later tweet.

This year’s World Series pits the American League’s Texas Rangers at the National League’s St. Louis Cardinals. Last night’s game result in a 3-2 Cardinals victory over the Rangers.