Kevin Blackistone:
Wow, how did they do that? And, by the way, that's hope to everyone else in Major League Baseball that you can microwave a championship in just a couple of seasons.
They did it mainly with offense. This is one of the more prolific offenses that we have seen in Major League Baseball maybe in the last 10, 12 years. Number two, they did it by getting healthy at the right time of the year. They only won 90 games during the regular season, which is one of the lowest totals ever for a World Series championship.
But they had a lot of players banged up during the season, all of whom, it appeared, became healthy during the postseason and certainly during the World Series. So they were able to do that. They made the right moves at the trade deadline, getting Montgomery as a pitcher, who filled out their roster, their rotation fantastically.
And they believed in themselves. And they also were able to take advantage of this new postseason, which is expanded, and really which gives everybody an opportunity to kind of pull off the miracle win. So you think about what they did with the defending champions just down the highway from them, the Houston Astros, who they lost to during the regular season, but who they were able to sweep in the Astros' home park during the postseason in order to get as far as they got.
So they got everything right at the right time of the season.
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