{"id":171152,"date":"2026-10-20T02:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/freddy-peralta-is-named-championship-series-mvp-and-leads-the-rays\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T02:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T06:01:27","slug":"freddy-peralta-is-named-championship-series-mvp-and-leads-the-rays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/national\/freddy-peralta-is-named-championship-series-mvp-and-leads-the-rays\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddy Peralta is named Championship Series MVP and leads the Rays"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Freddy Peralta named American League Championship Series Most Valuable Player<\/h2>\n\n<p>The stellar Dominican pitcher Freddy Peralta has been named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the American League Championship Series. This recognition comes after a stellar performance that was decisive in helping the Tampa Bay Rays secure their ticket to the World Series, after eliminating the Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the decisive sixth game of the series, which culminated in a 7-3 victory for the Rays, the 30-year-old right-hander shone on the mound by working 5.1 innings, allowing just one run. This outing was the finishing touch to a series where Peralta demonstrated his absolute dominance.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An impeccable mound performance<\/h3>\n\n<p>Peralta&#8217;s consistency was key to Tampa Bay&#8217;s aspirations. His numbers in the Championship Series reflect his impact:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>0.75 effectiveness in three appearances.<\/li><li>12 complete innings of work.<\/li><li>Nine strikeouts recorded against the opposition.<\/li><li>Versatile performance, including a key outing as a reliever in the fourth game.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Dominican pitcher reached an impressive level of velocity, recording personal bests of pitches over 97 miles per hour in both his second start and the sixth game of the series.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>With this award, Peralta joins a select group of Tampa Bay franchise players who have won the Championship Series MVP, accompanying Matt Garza (2008) and fellow Dominican Randy Arozarena (2020).<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Heading to the World Series<\/h3>\n\n<p>Since his arrival to the Rays last August, following a trade with the New York Mets, Peralta has experienced a notable improvement in his performance. His ERA went from 4.99 with the New York team to a solid 3.25 at the close of the regular season with his current organization, maintaining that positive momentum throughout the entire postseason.<\/p>\n\n<p>Destiny has a special showdown in store for him in the Fall Classic. Peralta will face the Milwaukee Brewers, his former team, who reach the final stage after sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n\n<p>The World Series will begin this Friday, October 23rd at 8:00 PM (Eastern Time) at American Family Field, where the Brewers will host the Rays in a matchup that promises to be historic for the Dominican pitcher.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freddy Peralta named American League Championship Series Most Valuable Player The stellar Dominican pitcher Freddy Peralta has been named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the American League Championship Series. This recognition comes after a stellar performance that was decisive in helping the Tampa Bay Rays secure their ticket to the World Series, after eliminating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12809],"tags":[88,2008,1011,1430],"class_list":{"0":"post-171152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-freddy-peralta","10":"tag-mvp","11":"tag-rays"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}