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The drone shot of Adolis Garcia’s World Series Game 1 walk-off home run is the coolest

This was so cool.

Good news: We’re getting drone shots during the World Series thanks to Fox.

And the timing couldn’t have been better, because we got a drone shot of Adolis Garcia’s 11th inning home run to give the Texas Rangers a win over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 1 of the Fall Classic.

This one is so cool. It captured Garcia rounding third, tossing off his helmet and what the view looked like as his Rangers teammates mobbed him.

Bonus: There are more drone videos below, including David Ortiz trying to fly one around the set. He landed it!

Check out the videos:

See Adolis Garcia’s 11th-inning walk-off homer to secure World Series Game 1 win for Rangers

Adolis Garcia’s homer in extra innings won Game 1 for Texas.

Texas Rangers right fielder Adolis Garcia was a hero in Game 1 of the World Series on Friday night. Hosting the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Rangers trailed late in the game until Corey Seager hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extra innings.

Enter Garcia. Well, eventually, because the game ended up going into 11 innings.

With reliever Kyle Nelson on the mound for the Diamondbacks, Garcia stepped up to the plate and reminded everyone again that he’s having an exceptional postseason. And his run is continuing into the World Series.

Garcia hit a solo home run to secure the Rangers’ 6-5 win in Game 1, and it was a fantastic moment.

He’s the first player to hit a walk-off home in Game 1 of the World Series since Kirk Gibson in 1988, according to ESPN Stats & Info.

RELATED: Why Adolis Garcia’s nickname is El Bombi (and was inspired by a light bulb, not hitting bombs)

Another great call from Fox’s Joe Davis, who delivered an incredible one for Seager’s monster home run in the ninth.

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Why Adolis Garcia’s nickname is El Bombi (and was inspired by a light bulb, not hitting bombs)

Here’s the quirky answer on how Adolis Garcia got his nickname.

Adolis Garcia has made a name for himself in the past couple of seasons for the Texas Rangers, but especially during his team’s run to the 2023 World Series.

Which brings us to his nickname: El Bombi. Where did that come from and is it something like, “the bomb,” because he hits such booming home runs?

Nope. Not quite.

Per the Star-Telegram: “He received the nickname from a childhood friend. The name has nothing to do with Garcia’s proficiency to hit bombs, but because his friend thought his head looked like a light bulb.”

Yes, seriously! More from Sports Illustrated confirming it:

Call what has happened to Texas—and Arizona, should the Diamondbacks flip the Phillies one more time—Bombi’s Law, in honor of José Adolis “El Bombi” García, who was bestowed the childhood nickname by his neighborhood buddies in Cuba. They decided his head was shaped like una bombi, or a light bulb.

There’s your answer!

Ump cam captured Adolis Garcia’s monster Game 7 home run and glorious celebration

Ump cam (and Adolis Garcia) is undefeated.

We’ve seen so many wild views of baseball thanks to ump cam, from scary high and in fastballs to home runs leaving the park in a hurry.

This time? We get a double dose of awesomeness thanks to ump cam and Adolis Garcia, whose home run trots have rankled fans and maybe opponents, too.

In Game 7 of the ALCS, Garcia hit a mammoth dinger that helped his Texas Rangers take down the defending champion Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park, and ump cam captured both his home run and the trot that included a celebration as he started running toward first.

Here you go, and enjoy (except if you’re an Astros fan, sorry about adding insult to injury):

On-field video showed the Astros’ stadium clearing out before Adolis Garcia even completed his HR trot

They booed him one second. Then, they were heading for the exits.

It has been quite the series for Texas Rangers slugger Adolis Garcia, and on Sunday, he got to experience what it was like to send an entire stadium to the parking lots.

Garcia — whose home run in Game 5 led to a benches-clearing incident and ejection — was back in the lineup for Game 6 of the ALCS in Houston. With the Rangers already up three runs in the ninth inning, Garcia shut down any hope the Astros had when he launched a grand slam into the Crawford Boxes.

At that point, every fan at Minute Maid Park knew that the series was heading into a Game 7. And they didn’t feel the need to stick around long enough to see Garcia complete his home run trot.

We could see that in an excellent video from the Rangers:

By the time Garcia got back to home plate, the aisles were full of fans heading to the exits.

Fans also loved that video. It captured the Astros’ defeated mood perfectly at that moment.

The Rangers – Astros brawl after Adolis Garcia was hit by pitch in 6 photos

A look at the brawl from Game 5.

Looking back, Adolis Garcia should have known the pitch that hit him after he slowly celebrated his game-changing home run wasn’t on purpose.

But it’s the pitch that changed Game 5 of the 2023 ALCS.

It sparked a brawl that saw Garcia, pitcher Bryan Abreu and Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker ejected. Then? Jose Altuve hit the game-winning dinger, and Baker ended up celebrating at the Astros’ tunnel. A wild game and series of events.

As we get set to move on to see if the Astros can close out the Texas Rangers, here’s a look back at photos from the brawl.

Adolis Garcia angrily confronts catcher Martin Maldonado, not the pitcher, in bench-clearing melee after hit by pitch

Was the pitch thrown at Adolis Garcia on purpose after he celebrated a huge home run?

You don’t always see this when there’s a slugger hit by a pitch after he celebrates a home run.

But there Adolis Garcia was, after hitting a go-ahead three-run shot earlier in Game 5 of the ALCS, confronting Houston Astros catcher Martin Maldonado instead of the Bryan Abreu, the pitcher who threw the ball at him.

Let’s rewind for a sec. It was right after that home run that Garcia took a slow walk down to first, celebrating, which is totally fine and should NOT be punished.

But was the subsequent pitch that hit him intentional? There was a man on first and the Astros were down 4-2 at the time. So you could say it wasn’t the time to throw a purpose pitch (although as I said above, that should never happen after home run celebrations).

Garcia then went after Maldonado and was ejected, along with Abreu and Houston manager Duty Baker:

The Rangers’ Adolis Garcia hilariously broke out a cartwheel after trying to avoid an inside pitch

Playoff baseball is getting weird.

The Texas Rangers came storming out of the gates in Monday’s Game 2 of the ALCS, scoring four runs in the first inning off Astros pitcher Framber Valdez. But the best highlight for the Rangers didn’t even result in a run.

With Adolis Garcia batting in the second inning against Valdez, a 2-2 cutter inside by the feet had Garcia jumping to avoid the pitch and then smoothly going into a cartwheel on the opposite side of the plate. And while it initially appeared that Garcia had avoided the pitch, it was ruled a hit by pitch and he took first base.

But let’s be honest: We won’t see a better athletic display on a hit by pitch … ever?

I mean, that was so smooth. He did a cartwheel, landed and seamlessly started his stroll to first base.

That’s how you know you’re playing on a different level when even the hit by pitches look cool.

Randy Arozarena did a Dikembe Mutombo finger wag at his pal Adolis Garcia after beating throw

This was so fun.

Randy Arozarena and Texas Rangers star Adolis Garcia are buddies, as we saw at the 2023 MLB All-Star Game.

They were both prospects with the St. Louis Cardinals, so it was great to see them have fun together in Seattle.

This time? They were opponents, as the Tampa Bay Rays star hit a double on Tuesday that was no sure thing. Arozarena slid in safe, but Garcia’s throw nearly beat him. Arozarena had the perfect response, though: He did a Dikembe Mutombo finger wag to Garcia in right field.

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Can these two teams please meet in the playoffs so we can get more of this?

Adolis García’s awful Home Run Derby pitcher had MLB fans making tons of jokes

Adolis García’s batting practice pitcher didn’t do him any favors on Monday night.

The MLB Home Run Derby didn’t exactly go Adolis García’s way on Monday night.

The two-time All-Star Texas Rangers outfielder didn’t have his best performance, but a lot of the blame can be placed on batting practice pitching that was, shall we say, sub-par.

The culprit was Rangers third-base coach Tony Beasley, whose pitching would have been great if he were a middle reliever but was less ideal when the goal of the competition is to hit home runs.

As the No. 4 seed, García was eliminated in the first round after hitting just 17 bombs compared to Randy Arozarena’s 24. And as you can see, the pitching wasn’t doing him any favors.

It’s not the first time we’ve seen a player’s derby hopes derailed by their own batting practice pitcher, but MLB fans certainly had lots of jokes at Beasley’s expense.