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Home Run Wars: MLB's Stars Tell You How to Properly Hype a World Series Dinger

LOS ANGELES — Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon in 1969.

Astros shortstop Carlos Correa became the first man to nearly bat-flip to the moon during a World Series game in 2017.

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind's…bat!

It came during Game 2 of this crank-up-the-fun Dodgers-Astros World Series, an epic match now racing toward Game 6 Tuesday night in Dodger Stadium with the pure, unbridled joy of youthful innocence. Conspicuously absent is any trace of old-school venom from the grumps who would disapprove of anything close to celebratory.