The Rangers' Corey Seager epitomizes the phrase, 'act like you've been there before,' because, well, he has — and he's now fueled both of Texas' World Series wins.
changeup. As the baseball jetted toward the right field seats at 114.5 miles per hour, Seager calmly dismounted his bat and began that familiar jog around the bases.
His laser beam long ball in Game 3 — the hardest hit World Series homer in the Statcast era — was the 18th of his storied postseason career. Derek Jeter is the only shortstop with more. Nobody has had more playoff homers since the start of 2020, the year Seager captured National League Championship Series and World Series MVP awards during the Dodgers' title run. It's possible he'll add another World Series MVP to his mantle if the Rangers capture two more wins.
Texas' franchise star has seen 91 pitches in the strike zone this postseason. He has swung a whopping 76 times. That 83.5% in-zone swing rate would have been the highest in baseball this year, topping Seager's league-leading rate of 80.3% during the regular season. And that hack-happy strategy only intensifies early in counts. Seager has seen 27 first pitches within the strike zone this October. He has swung at 23 of those.was trying to locate his heater above the zone.
But when Seager is this locked in, you have to execute. In their first matchup, Pfaadt did just that, coaxing his foe into a first-pitch groundout on a perfectly located sinker on the outer half in the first inning. But perfection is a ghost, and Seager didn't blink when Pfaadt yanked a changeup a full foot from where it was supposed to be.
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