The Houston Astros baseball team won the World Series Wednesday night. It beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-1 in the final game of the series. Houston had never won the baseball championship since entering the major leagues in 1962. That is a 55-year wait for a title! The Astros came close a few times. In 2005, the team made it to the World Series but lost four straight games. The championship went to the White Sox of Chicago. After that, things went from bad to worse. The team lost nearly twice as often as they won during the following seasons. In 2011, the team lost 106 games. In 2012, it lost 107 games. And in 2013, the team lost a record 111 games. Some sports observers called the Astros the laughingstock of baseball.