Garcia hits walk-off homer in 11th to lift Rangers over Diamondbacks in World Series opener

Adolis Garcia hit a game-winning homer in the 11th inning after Corey Seager's tying two-run shot in the ninth, and the Texas Rangers opened this surprise World Series of wild-card teams with a 6-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night in Arlington, Texas.

The Cuban slugger known as El Bombi drove a 3-1 sinker from Miguel Castro the other way into the right-field seats beyond a leaping Corbin Carroll. It was Garcia's second RBI of the game, setting a record for most in one post-season with 22.

"It was an exciting moment," Garcia said. "I was just looking to the dugout, looking at all my [happy] teammates."

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Garcia has homered in five consecutive games, tied for the second-longest streak in post-season history, and he delivered the first walk-off homer in the World Series since Max Muncy connected leading off the 18th inning of Game 3 for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2018 against Boston and Nathan Eovaldi — who started for the Rangers in this one.

In the first extra-inning game of this post-season, Texas became the first team to win a World Series game when trailing by multiple runs in the ninth since the 2015 Kansas City Royals in their clinching Game 5 against the New York Mets.

Game 2 is Saturday night in Texas.

Seager tied it in the ninth when he drove closer Paul Sewald's 94 mph fastball 419 feet deep into the right-field seats with one out after the inning began with No. 9 hitter Leody Taveras drawing a walk.

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