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The Williams family began hosting picnics in 1850 at a small grove near Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.Within a few years, the grove was developed into a park. In 1873, the Cumberland Valley Railroad, which operated the newly constructed Dillsburg and Mechanicsburg Railroad, leased the grove from the Williams family, planning to build it into a resort destination.
World Series starting pitchers: Game 1 Yankees : Gerrit Cole (8-5, 3.41 ERA) – The 2023 AL Cy Young winner missed the early part of the season due to injury. He's made three starts in the 2024 ...
Joseph Williams (April 6, 1886 – February 25, 1951), nicknamed "Cyclone Joe" and "Smokey Joe", was an American right-handed pitcher in Negro league baseball. He is considered one of the greatest pitchers of all-time and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999 .
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]
All 38 games at the 2024 Little League World Series, which will run from Aug. 14-25, will be shown on either ESPN, ESPN2 or ABC. Every game of the tournament will stream on ESPN+ and on the ESPN app.
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.
The next batter, Bryce Harper, was hit by a pitch, putting the tying run on first base, but Castellanos hit a groundball to short that led to the game-ending putout from Peña to Mancini to end the game. The victory was the first World Series pitching win of Verlander's career, who had gone 0–6 in his previous eight World Series starts ...
He went just 2-for-19 over the five World Series games, and he injured his shoulder while trying to steal second in Game 2. He didn’t miss a game, but he ended up needing surgery for a torn labrum .