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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]
Curtis Montague Schilling (born November 14, 1966) is an American former Major League Baseball right handed pitcher and commentator for media outlet BlazeTV.He helped lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a World Series appearance in 1993, and won championships in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks and in 2004 and 2007 with the Boston Red Sox, being named a co-winner of the World Series MVP in 2001.
League leader in wins, three different teams. 0.650 win–loss percentage, career. 0.875 winning percentage, season. Notes. References. List of Major League Baseball wins records. The following is a listing of pitching win and winning percentage records in Major League Baseball. All teams are considered to be members of the American or National ...
Cy Young [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] holds the MLB win record with 511; Walter Johnson [ 4 ] is second with 417. Young and Johnson are the only players to earn 400 or more wins. Among pitchers whose entire careers were in the post-1920 live-ball era, Warren Spahn [ 5 ] has the most wins with 363. Only 24 pitchers have accumulated 300 or more wins in their ...
The leader for World Series starts in a career is Whitey Ford, with 22 between 1950 and 1964, all for the New York Yankees. [ 2 ] Ford is the leader both in World Series wins by a starting pitcher, with 10, and World Series losses by a starting pitcher, with eight. Christy Mathewson is the career leader in World Series complete games, with 10 ...
92.6% (first ballot) James Alvin Palmer (born October 15, 1945) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 19 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles (1965–1967, 1969–1984). Palmer was the winningest MLB pitcher in the 1970s, totaling 186 wins. [ 1 ] He also won at least 20 games in eight different ...
The 1963 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1963 season.The 60th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the American League (AL) champion and two-time defending World Series champion New York Yankees against the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers; the Dodgers swept the Series in four games to secure their ...
He was among the most dominant pitchers in baseball history, and ranks in the all-time top 10 in several key pitching categories, including wins, shutouts, and earned run average. [1] In 1936, Mathewson was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its first five members.