World Series Game 7, would this Series deserve any less?

Tonight is the night for one of these megastars. Will it be MVP frontrunner Jose Altuve (left), or Cy Young candidate Clayton Kershaw (right). Who will will their first (of possibly many) World Series rings?

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For the 39th time in Major League Baseball history, the World Series will go to a Game Seven.

The Los Angeles Dodgers seek to win their first World Series title in 29 years at home while the Houston Astros try to win their first World Series title...ever.

After a record 24 home runs, after 62 runs, after 92 hits, after 57 frames and after 20 hours and 18 minutes of baseball over eight days... would this World Series deserve anything less than seven games?

In Game 1, we had the shortest World Series game in 25 years (just two hours and 28 minutes). In Game 5, we witnessed the second-longest World Series game ever (a whopping five hours and 17 minutes, just 14 minutes shy of the record).

We were welcomed this World Series with the hottest World Series game at the time of first pitch: 103 degrees Fahrenheit at 5:11 pm in Los Angeles on October 24, 2017. In the literal and metaphorical heat of the moment, we saw Clayton Kershaw, one of the greatest starting pitchers of this era, turn in a stellar performance in the playoffs that he so struggles to perform in.

In Game 2, we witnessed a record eight home runs in a single World Series game, all hit by eight different players, four homers for each side. We saw a rather dull

3-1 score burst to life with runs in the eighth and ninth innings by the Astros to tie the game and seven total runs cross the plate in two extra innings. After stellar performances by starters Rich Hill and Justin Verlander, we were treated to a home run derby in the late innings.

In Game 3, for the first time in their franchise's 55 years of existence, the Houston Astros won their first World Series home game. We witnessed another magnificent start by Lance McCullers Jr., an unlikely hero who had earned a

four-inning save in the ALCS Game 7 against the Yankees. However, we saw a shocking player of the game, Brad Peacock. Peacock earned his first career save after pitching 3.2 hitless innings and becoming an instant hero.

In Game 4, we saw the Dodgers hammer the ball, putting a five spot in the ninth inning to win 6-2. We also immediately heard from the pitching coaches that the baseballs had felt "slicker" than usual on both sides.

In Game 5, oh Game 5. Back and forth. Back and forth they went like Goliath vs. Goliath. 4-0 the Dodgers led in the top of the fourth inning. 4-4 the Astros equalized in the bottom half. 7-4 the Dodgers went up the next inning on a Cody Bellinger home run just to have Jose Altuve tie it up in the bottom half. The equivalent of rock 'em sock 'em robots they went, hammering the ball this way and that. For the fourth time in World Series history, a game had 24 runs scored. The Astros would end up winning 13-12 in a Game 5 to remember, as if it were the Battle of Yorktown (kids, read your textbooks).

Finally, in Game 6, we saw George Springer become one of just 12 men every to hit four or more home runs in a single World Series. However, the dominance of Dodger pitching prevailed in another tight affair.

Except Game 4, which was tied going into the ninth inning, each game of this World Series has finished with the teams being within two runs of each other. We've seen everything from dominant pitching battles to what seemed like a home run derby at Coors Field.

So why not? Why not have a Game 7? Why not have perhaps the greatest World Series ever played end in a Game 7 in one of the oldest and most recognizable baseball stadiums in the world? Why not finish it all where this all started? Why not...one more battle? A tie-breaker. A heart-stopper.

A tear-jerker. A war for all the marbles. One more rodeo in the warm California sunset.

Nine innings (at least) will separate the haves from the have not's. One simple win separates the Cody Bellingers and the Kirk Gibsons, the Dave Robertses from the Tommy Lasordas, the Alex Bregman from the Craig Biggios and the Lance McCullers Jrs from the Nolan Ryans. One game means what that banner says come April. Will it "American/National League Champions" or will it say..."World Series Champions".

The great Tommy Lasorda, who has known professional baseball for more than six of his nine decades on this earth and has two World Series rings as a Dodger manager, had a word with current Dodger skipper Dave Roberts, who became the first non-white manager in Dodger history in 2015.

Lasorda said the harshest, truest words that have been spoken about this Series. He told Roberts, moments after winning Game 6:

"You haven't done s*** if you don't win tomorrow".

So...who wants it the most?

Out of the 50 players on the roster between these two teams, three have played in a World Series before: Carlos Beltran, age 40, Chase Utley, age 38, and Justin Verlander, age 34.

This is everyone else's first rodeo. Who will be the young buck to show up?

It's Game 7. All hands on deck. All bets off the table. Everything is on the line.

All that's left to do is play like there is no tomorrow.