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The 2015 Major League Baseball season began on April 5 with a Sunday night game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, and ended on November 1 with the Kansas City Royals winning the World Series. This was Rob Manfred's first season serving as Commissioner of Baseball.
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]
Year American League champion National League champion World Series champion 1990: Oakland Athletics: Cincinnati Reds: Cincinnati Reds 1991: Minnesota Twins: Atlanta Braves: Minnesota Twins 1992: Toronto Blue Jays: Toronto Blue Jays 1993: Philadelphia Phillies: Toronto Blue Jays 1994: 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike: 1995
During and after World War I, the Athletics had nine consecutive losing seasons including the lowest win percentage in post-1900 major league baseball of .235 in 1916 and only 36 wins in 1919. Between 1934 and 1967 in Philadelphia and later Kansas City the team had sequences of thirteen and fifteen consecutive losing seasons and overall won ...
The 2015 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2015 season. The winners of the Division Series would move on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series .
MLB AL East 5th 61 101 .377 36 Joe Maddon: 2007: MLB AL East 5th 66 96 .407 30 Carlos Peña [4] Tampa Bay Rays: 2008: MLB AL * East ^ 1st 97 65 .599 – Won ALDS 3–1 Won ALCS 4–3 Lost World Series 4–1 * Evan Longoria [5] Joe Maddon [6] Joe Maddon: 2009: MLB AL East 3rd 84 78 .519 19 2010: MLB AL East ^ 1st 96 66 .593
One-game playoffs were used in Major League Baseball (MLB) through the 2021 season. When two or more MLB teams were tied for a division championship or the wild card playoff berth (1995–2011, or starting in 2012, the second only) at the end of the regular season, a one-game playoff was used to determine the winner.
The Orioles consulted with Major League Baseball and local and state officials about the best way to move forward in the midst of violent protests following the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who suffered a spinal injury while in police custody earlier in the month. Baltimore was declared to be in a state of emergency and the National ...