Halfway to the Yankees!
The Rays won their 13th World Championship and third straight overall today, defeating San Francisco 4-0 to take the World Series in a gentleman's sweep. It was their second three-peat after winning it from 2028-2030. Doug Johns, the goat last night after short-circuiting a couple of Tampa Bay rallies by grounding into double plays, blasted a 3-run homer in the first inning, turning trick into treat on Halloween night. Gordie Ager wasn't dominating but kept the Giants off the board for 6, and then the bullpen which struggled early in this series combined for 3 1-hit innings with Mike Barkley at the bottom of the dogpile:
The now-annual boat parade will take place in a couple of days in downtown Tampa. I'll have the team's playoff stats in next post and then the always-fun offseason begins.