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Houston Astros pitcher Framber Valdez helped lead his team to win their second World Series championship Sunday night after defeating the Philadelphia Phillies, 4-1, in game 6.

Philadelphia's J.T. Realmuto pointed heavenward while touching home plate after hitting the go-ahead home run during Game 1 of the World Series and then gave thanks to the Lord above during a nationally televised post-game interview.

The Atlanta Braves' Dansby Swanson helped his team win Game 4 of the World Series Saturday and then told a national television audience how his faith in God has given him peace amidst difficult circumstances.

Clayton Kershaw praised God after he and his team, the LA Dodgers, won the Major League Baseball World Series on Tuesday.

Mike Fiers, a pitcher who played for the Astros in 2017, told the Athletic last November that the team used a video camera in center field to film the opposing team’s signs to its pitchers. Players or team staffers watching the live camera feed then signaled to the batter what kind of pitch was coming. MLB opened an investigation, concluding in January 2020 that Fiers’s allegations were correct. The Astros’ manager and general manager were suspended for the 2020 season (the team fired both on the day their suspensions were announced). The team was fined the maximum allowable $5 million and stripped of its first- and second-round picks in the 2020 and 2021 drafts.

Former Red Sox player and cog in the franchise's 2004 World Series victory, Manny Rameriez shared in a recent interview that he found God and is now in seminary school.