“Baseball always offers more, it is infinite passion,” said López Obrador about the fourth game of the World Series, between the Dodgers and Rays.

The scoreboard indicates 7-6 in favor of the Dodgers. The bottom of the ninth inning is disputed. It is the turn to bat de Brett phillips, who entered as a pop-up.

Phillips hit a liner single to center field and Chris Taylor couldn’t control the ball, allowing Kevin Kiermaier to reach the plate and tie the duel. Taylor throws the ball to catcher Will Smith, who does not catch it and Randy Arozarena adds the victory race. The board indicates 7-8 in favor of the Rays, victory that meant the tie in the series.

Regarding the Game 4 of the World Series, the mandatary Andrés Manuel López Obrador shared on Twitter that with the duel between the Rays and Dodgers, “is like saying: thank you, I already have that”. Encounter in which Julio Urías became the Mexican fourth pitcher to start such a game. The baseball player from Culiacán, Sinaloa, stayed on the hill for 4.2 innings, allowed hits and registered 9 strikeouts.

Before him, he did Fernando Valenzuela, also representative of Los Angeles in 1981, after Jaime Garcia with St. Louis Cardinals (2011) and recently Jose Urquidy with the Houston Astros (2019).

The Rays are in their second World Series and are looking to win their first MLB championship, with a roster that has ended the regular season with the best mark in the American League and has the third-lowest payroll in the league, with USD 28.2 million, that is, 3.8 times less than the ace of its World Series opponents, the Los Angeles Dodgers ($ 107.9 million).

“Baseball always offers more, it is infinite passion, That’s why Hemingway and Don Julio Scherer liked him so much ”, he added.

In the case of the franchise, the Los Angeles franchise seeks to end a 32-year streak without winning a title. His sixth and last title was won in 1988. The squad is made up of the two left-handed pitchers: Julio Urías and Víctor González, that last week they became the third pair of Mexicans to dispute that instance in the same organization.

For now, the teams have two victories and therefore López Obrador emphasized that “the Dodgers still need to “fix” Tampa “. It was last week that the Mexican president said that the franchise in charge of Dave Roberts would be the winners of the Fall Classic.

Meanwhile, during his visit to Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, The Tabasco received as a gift the flannel of the Tecolotes de los Dos Laredos team, who plays in the Mexican Baseball League (LMB) and a bat, by Francisco Cabeza de Vaca, governor of Tamaulipas; Enrique Rivas, municipal president of Nuevo Laredo.

What Mexican baseball players have a World Series ring?

There are 17 Mexicans who have played the Fall Classic, but those who have a World Series ring are: Horacio Piña, with Oakland Athletics (1973); Enrique Romo with Pittsburgh Pirates (1979); Fernando Valenzuela with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1981); Aurelio Lopez with Detroit Tigers (1984); Jorge Medio with Kansas City Royals (1985); Erubiel Durazo with Arizona Diamondbacks (2001); Benjamin Gil with Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (2002); Alfredo Aceves with the New York Yankees (2009); Jaime Garcia with St. Louis Cardinals and Fernando Salas (2011) and Sergio Romo with San Francisco Giants (2010, 2012, 2014).

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