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LISTEN: Rangers radio legend Eric Nadel calls first World Series win

Nadel’s first championship call comes in his 45th year of broadcasting Rangers games.

The Texas Rangers are world champions.

It only took 52 years, but better late than never. That, too, goes for longtime radio voice of the franchise, Eric Nadel, and the many fans who have spent decades waiting for this moment.

Nadel, in his 45th year of broadcasting Rangers games, had missed the first four months of the season battling depression, anxiety and insomnia.

Here’s Nadel’s call of the final moments of the World Series clincher.

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Nathan Eovaldi pitched six gutsy innings, Mitch Garver broke a scoreless tie with an RBI single in the seventh and the Texas Rangers are champions for the first time after beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0 in Game 5 on Wednesday night.

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Marcus Semien homered late and the Rangers, held hitless for six innings by Zac Gallen, finished a record 11-0 on the road this postseason by capping the Fall Classic with three straight wins in the desert.

One night after Texas took a 10-run lead by the third in a Game 4 snoozer, it finished baseball’s third all-wild card Series by outlasting the Diamondbacks in a white-knuckle pitchers’ duel, piling on four runs in the ninth for good measure.

Eovaldi pitched out of trouble all night before Aroldis Chapman and Josh Sborz finished it.

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The Associated Press contributed to this post.

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