Bill Text: TX HR31 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Congratulating Houston Astros shortstop Jeremy Peña on being named the 2022 Most Valuable Player of the American League Championship Series and the World Series.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-01-18 - Reported enrolled [HR31 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HR31-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Congratulating Houston Astros shortstop Jeremy Peña on being named the 2022 Most Valuable Player of the American League Championship Series and the World Series.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-01-18 - Reported enrolled [HR31 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HR31-Introduced.html
88R4986 CW-D | ||
By: Walle | H.R. No. 31 |
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WHEREAS, Jeremy Peña achieved historic success in his first | ||
season with the Houston Astros by claiming 2022 Most Valuable | ||
Player honors in both the American League Championship Series and | ||
the World Series; and | ||
WHEREAS, A rookie shortstop, Mr. Peña was called up from | ||
Houston's reserve player squad and emerged as a dominant force | ||
during the 2022 regular season, posting 22 home runs to help the | ||
Astros enter the playoffs; he contributed a home run in their | ||
division series sweep of Seattle, and he produced two doubles and | ||
two home runs in the team's four-game ALCS sweep of the New York | ||
Yankees; his MVP performance helped secure Houston's fourth AL | ||
pennant in the past six years and a berth in the Fall Classic | ||
against the Philadelphia Phillies; and | ||
WHEREAS, Mr. Peña exhibited remarkable confidence on the | ||
World Series stage, going 10 for 25 at the plate and displaying | ||
superb glove work on defense; his go-ahead solo shot in Houston's | ||
game five win was the first World Series homer by a rookie | ||
shortstop, and he further showcased his skills in game six, hitting | ||
two singles in four trips to the plate; with the contest scoreless | ||
after five innings, he delivered a clutch single, setting up a | ||
three-run homer that proved to be the decisive play in the Astros' | ||
4-1 victory that clinched their second overall crown; and | ||
WHEREAS, Racking up hits in all six World Series games, | ||
Mr. Peña became the first rookie position player to be named the | ||
World Series MVP; furthermore, he is only the third first-year | ||
player to receive that honor, and the 2022 Gold Glove winner is just | ||
the second Major League Baseball rookie to collect league | ||
championship series and World Series MVP awards in the same year; he | ||
played baseball for the University of Maine before being selected | ||
as Houston's third-round pick in the 2018 MLB Draft, and he joined | ||
the Astros after 182 minor league games; and | ||
WHEREAS, Jeremy Peña has distinguished himself as one of the | ||
top young competitors in Major League Baseball, and his | ||
accomplishments have inspired sports fans across the Lone Star | ||
State and the nation; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 88th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby congratulate Jeremy Peña on being named the 2022 | ||
MVP of the American League Championship Series and the World Series | ||
and extend to him sincere best wishes for the future; and, be it | ||
further | ||
RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
prepared for Mr. Peña as an expression of high regard by the Texas | ||
House of Representatives. |