The best eight or so days of October are over, the World Series is over, and boy was it a great. The Washington Nationals beat the Houston Astros in the seven game series, it was unique as it was the first time ever in professional sports history that each game was won by the road team. The Nationals win their first World Series in their first ever appearance. The Astros were unable to win their second title in three years. This is their second ever World Series defeat, the first since 2005.

As I said this was great, in huge part to all the records. The aforementioned road team winning every game, as well as other records such as the Nationals winning five elimination games in the postseason in which they trailed, including games six and seven of the World Series. Stephan Strasburg broke two records, he became just the third person to go 5-0 in a single postseason, including 2-0 in the WS, and the first number one overall pick to win World Series Most Valuable Player (Strasburg was taken with the first pick out of San Diego State in 2009 by the Nationals). Nationals outfielder Juan Soto became the fourth-youngest player to hit a home run in the WS. Soto turned 21 on October 25th, the same day game three was held.

The games themselves almost had the same narrative, one team would take an early lead, the other tie it up still somewhat early and then one of the teams pulls away towards the end. This was common for the Nationals mostly as their game two win by a score of 12-3 was tied 2-2 from the first to the seventh inning when they scored six runs then four the final two innings. Or in game seven, when it was a 2-0 till the seventh. In the seventh Anthony Rendon hit a home run to make it 2-1 and the next batter was walked. The Astros changed pitchers and Howie Kendrick, former Salt Lake Bees player, hit a two-run home run to make it 3-2 Nationals. They would score some more in the eight and ninth and won 6-2.

Statistically this series was once again full of firsts or records. Houston third-baseman Alex Bregman’s grand slam in game was the first since 2016. Houston outfielder George Springer’s homerun in game one was the fifth-straight WS game in which he hit a home-run dating back to game four in 2017, that is a record. He also tied the home runs in a single world series record with five back in 2017, no one hit that many this year but National’s Antony Rendon and Houston’s Alex Bregman both hit three, tied for the most this year.