the Nationals won every game at Minute Maid Park, with Howie Kendrick's two-run homer in the seventh inning of Game 7 putting them ahead to stay.
The two teams have played each other this year, in spring training games at the complex they share in West Palm Beach, Florida, before MLB shut down all camps in mid-March.
TRIVIA BREAK: When the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves played their marathon July 4 game in 1985, the one that ended with a postgame fireworks display at 4 a.m.
on July 5, how many innings and how many rain delays were there? (Answer at bottom).WASH IN TEXAS: Ron Washington is the winningest manager for the Rangers, and led them to their only two World Series appearances in 2010 and 2011.