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The 2022 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2022 season. The 118th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Houston Astros and the National League (NL) champion Philadelphia Phillies. The Astros defeated the Phillies in six games to earn their ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
The Houston Astros entered the 2022 MLB season as runners-up in the 2021 World Series championship, falling to the Atlanta Braves in six games. It was the Astros' third World Series appearance in five years, including a route to their fifth consecutive American League (AL) Championship Series.
The Astros became the first team to win the World Series at home since the Boston Red Sox did so in 2013. (The Dodgers won as the home team in 2020, but that was played at a neutral site due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The Phillies' record in the World Series fell to 2–6 after the loss. Rookie Jeremy Peña was named World
The team's roster announced Friday did not include reliever Evan Phillips, whose outing in the clinching Game 6 of the National League Championship Series was cut short over injury concerns.
However, in nine of the past eleven seasons, home-field advantage has not decided World Series games: Between 2014 and 2022, and again since 2023, the home team did not win the deciding game of a World Series on their own home field, although the 2020 edition, played on a neutral site due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was won by the designated home ...
The 1963 sweep was their second victory against the Yankees, and their first against them as a Los Angeles team. The Dodgers won four more pennants in 1966, 1974, 1977, and 1978, but lost in each World Series appearance. They went on to win the World Series again in 1981, thanks in part to pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela. Fernando Valenzuela
In 2006, beset with injuries and inconsistency, [92] they won the World Series, beating Detroit in five games to set an all-time record-low of 83 wins for a World Series winner. [ 93 ] [ 22 ] [ 94 ] In 2009 , the Cardinals reached 10,000 wins, dating to when they first played in the American Association (AA).