The Los Angeles Dodgers and Ball State baseball alumnus Alex Call swept the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series to advance to the World Series.<\/p>\n
After Friday night’s 5-1 series-clinching win, Call is primed to become the second former Ball State player to play in a World Series game. Merv Rettenmund, who played at Ball State in the mid-1960s, was the first Cardinal to make an appearance on Major League Baseball’s biggest stage. Rettenmund also become the first Ball State alumnus to win a World Series ring playing outfield for the Baltimore Orioles in 1970.<\/p>\n
At this year’s trade deadline, the Dodgers acquired Call from the Washington Nationals. Since joining the Dodgers, Call has been a consistent contributor in the team’s postseason run. In four playoff games, the outfielder has gotten on base in six out of seven plate appearances earning a postseason batting average of .750 and on base percentage of .857.
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\nThe 2016 Mid-American Conference Player of the Year and First Team All-American was selected in the third round of the 2016 MLB Draft by the Chicago White Sox. Call made his debut with the Cleveland Guardians in July of 2022.<\/p>\n
The outfielder has tallied a career .242\/.341\/.371 slash line in 858 regular season at bats in the big leagues including a .267\/.361\/.385 line with 13 doubles, two triples, five home runs, 31 RBI and 72 runs scored in 110 games combined between time with the Dodgers and Nationals this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Dodgers and Ball State baseball alumnus Alex Call swept the Milwaukee Brewers in the National…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-221834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}