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The 2022 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2022 season. The 118th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Houston Astros and the National League (NL) champion Philadelphia Phillies. The Astros defeated the Phillies in six games to earn their ...
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]
However, in nine of the past eleven seasons, home-field advantage has not decided World Series games: Between 2014 and 2022, and again since 2023, the home team did not win the deciding game of a World Series on their own home field, although the 2020 edition, played on a neutral site due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was won by the designated home ...
The last time the Phillies appeared in the NLCS was in 2010, where they were upset by the eventual World Series champion San Francisco Giants. The Phillies defeated the Padres in five games to return to the World Series for the first time since 2009. Game 1 was a pitcher’s duel between Philadelphia’s Zack Wheeler and San Diego’s Yu ...
When the term "World Series" is used by itself, it is usually understood to refer to the "modern" World Series exclusively. [8] The World Series championship is determined through a best-of-seven playoff. Best-of-seven has been the format of nearly all of the modern World Series, except 1903 and 1919–1921 which were best-of-nine. In addition ...
The teams were then matched against each other in a special division series. Oakland and New York won the 1981 American League Division Series while Los Angeles and Montreal won the 1981 National League Division Series. [1]
In 2006, beset with injuries and inconsistency, [92] they won the World Series, beating Detroit in five games to set an all-time record-low of 83 wins for a World Series winner. [ 93 ] [ 22 ] [ 94 ] In 2009 , the Cardinals reached 10,000 wins, dating to when they first played in the American Association (AA).
1989 winner Dave Stewart was the first pitcher to win two games each in a League Championship Series and a World Series in the same postseason. 1996 winner John Wetteland set a World Series record with four saves. [116] The 2001 co-MVPs, Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, combined for all four of Arizona's wins in the Series. [71]