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Just in case you missed Game 5 of the World Series, or haven't thought about it in a while, here's a recap of the 13 runs the Astro's scored to put them within one win of their World Series title.

Much to the dismay of Dodgers' fans, Charlie Morton delivers the last pitch of the 2017 World Series, giving the Astro's their first World Series Championship in 56 seasons. Pitchers and catchers report today!

Derek Fisher scored the winning run on Alex Bregman's single to finally end the seemingly endless Game 5 of the World Series and give the Astros a 3-2 lead over the Dodgers. Only one day until Spring Training!

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Five Astros homered in Game 5 to bring the Astros back from the dead after trailing 4-0 and 7-4 with Clayton Kershaw on the mound. Except perhaps for the fact that this was only the fifth game, it equaled the drama of the 1960 World Series Game 7 that ended on Bill Mazeroski's walk-off home run in the bottom of the 9th. Only two days until Spring Training!

Dodgers' center fielder Chris Taylor couldn't leap high enough to catch Marwin Gonzalez's 9th inning home run that sent Game 2 of the World Series into extra innings. Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa and George Springer would all go deep in extra innings to lead the Astros to their first ever win in the World Series. Only three days until Spring Training!

Lance McCullers threw the Yankees 24 straight curve balls to clinch the Astros' second World Series birth in 56 years. Only four days to Spring Training!

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He may not have won a World Series game, but the August 31 midnight trade for Justin Verlander was what put the Astros over the top on their way to their first World Series title. In Game 2 of the ALCS, Verlander gave up one run in a complete game outing to beat the Yankees with help from Carlos Correa's one out double in the ninth to plate Altuve with the winning run. Only five days to Spring Training!

Jose Altuve got the Astros' playoffs off to a great start with three home runs in Game 1 against Boston. They'd go on to win the ALDS 3-1. Only six days to Spring Training!

I have watched baseball all of my life, and until last season had never seen a 7-6-3 tag out at first base to end a game. Amazing. And so was Yuli Gurriel, who applied the game ending tag on the Yankees' Brett Gardner to cap his 3-hit, 4-RBI night. Only seven days until Spring Training!

The Astros had a 5-2 record against the Yankees during the regular season, but it took plays like this (the throw was from Jake Marisnick) to get there. Only eight days until Spring Training!

Even if baseball fans didn’t watch this game, they can still almost instantly understand what is going on here, what the players, umpires, and fans are thinking, and what is at stake. If you don't know the outcome, the ball was fair, and Marwin Gonzalez' 8th inning grand slam won the game, broke the curse of the Texas Rangers, and set the Astros on an unobstructed path to the AL West division title. Only nine days to Spring Training!

Until he was injured mid-season, World Series MVP George Springer was a legitimate AL MVP candidate--along with teamates Carlos Correa and eventual MVP winner Jose Altuve. Here, Springer helps Houston improve to 3-0 on the season with a walk-off three-run homer into the first row of the Crawford Boxes against Seattle on April 5.  Only 10 days until Spring Training!

During the Houston Astros parade celebrating their first World Series title, something was terribly wrong with their first base coach Rich Dauer. No one knew it at the time, but he was suffering from an acute subdural hematoma, caused by a blow to the head when he had fallen the night before.

Dauer didn't realize he was injured and did not tell anyone about his fall. So when he started to exhibit symptoms, everyone assumed it was the result of exhaustion and dehydration. Instead, Dauer barely escaped death.

There were a lot of big hits for the Astros throughout their run to becoming World Series champs this year. But here is the call for perhaps my favorite of them all:

He lifts it...

Into left...

Down the line...

At the wall...

Gone!

Do you know which of the Astros' record setting 15 home runs this was? Did you have a favorite? If so, let us know in the comments.

The Astros had the best offense in baseball in 2017, scoring almost 900 runs in the regular season. And they showed plenty of pop in the postseason, too; for instance, they set the record for the most home runs ever in a World Series.

Yet in the postseason, teams face better pitching than during the regular season and the offensive performances generally suffer. The Astros postseason offense demonstrated that by slashing .240/.314/.431 compared to .282/.346/.478 in the regular season. So when all was said and done, despite its inconsistency, it may have been the Astros pitching that carried them to their first World Series title.