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The 2024 Major League Baseball season (MLB) began on March 20–21 with a two-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres held in Seoul, South Korea, before the regular season proper ran from March 28 to September 30.
The 2024 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2024 season. The 120th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees .
The 2024 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball (MLB) for the 2024 season.In each of the two leagues – National and American – the three division winners and three wild card teams (the remaining teams with the best records) participated in the postseason, for a total of twelve teams.
The Dodgers ended the homestand by crushing the Mets, 10–0 on April 21, with eight of the runs scoring in the fifth inning. Ohtani hit his 176th career home run, passing Hideki Matsui for most by a Japanese-born Major Leaguer and Andy Pages hit his first MLB homer as well. Glasnow struck out 10 in eight shutout innings.
The 2024 American League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2024 postseason. The top-seeded New York Yankees defeated the second-seeded Cleveland Guardians, four games to one, to become American League (AL) champions for the 41st time.
They faced the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2024 World Series, losing in five games. This was the first Yankees–Dodgers World Series matchup since 1981 and the 12th in Major League Baseball history. In off the field news, this was the final season for longtime play-by-play radio announcer John Sterling, who was honored by the team on April 20th ...
Seattle decreases batting average on balls in play more than any park in baseball. — Pete Alonso has hit 22 more home runs and has an OPS nearly 100 points higher on the road during his career.
Different sources of baseball records present somewhat differing lists of career batting average leaders. Until the incorporation of statistics from Negro league baseball into major-league records in 2024, Ty Cobb was the consensus leader. Subsequently, he was supplanted by Josh Gibson on the official MLB leaderboard. [1]