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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]
Game 1 was the least-watched World Series game ever, in terms of number of viewers, per Nielsen Media Research records dating back to 1968; it was also the first World Series game to draw less than 10 million viewers since Game 3 in 2008, which underwent a 90-minute rain delay. [82] Games 2 and 3 subsequently established new lows.
On Fox alone, the World Series in total averaged 15.20 million viewers, up 67% from last year (9.11 million) and the best five-game average since 2017 (16.42 million).
Adolis Garcia smacked a home run in the bottom of the 11th to carry the Texas Rangers to a thrilling 6-5 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks in the opening game of the 2023 World Series at Globe ...
The 2016 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 season.The 112th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Chicago Cubs and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians, the first meeting of those franchises in postseason history.
The first scheduled night World Series game was Game 4 of the 1971 World Series at Three Rivers Stadium. [24] Afterward, World Series games were frequently scheduled at night, when television audiences were larger. Game 6 of the 1987 World Series was the last World Series game played in the daytime, [25] indoors at the Metrodome in Minnesota.
NY regains lead on sacrifice fly: Yankees 6, Dodgers 5. NEW YORK - Giancarlo Stanton restored order in Game 5 of the World Series, putting the New York Yankees back on top with a sacrifice fly.
When the World Series last was played in Phoenix, the roof of the stadium — then known as Bank One Ballpark — was open for Games 1, 2, 6 and 7 between the Diamondbacks and New York Yankees in ...