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Player Nation Position Summer Olympics World Series Team Ref. Orlando Hernández Cuba: Starting pitcher 1992 Barcelona: 1998: New York Yankees [1] [2] 1999: New York Yankees: 2000: New York Yankees: 2005: Chicago White Sox: José Contreras Cuba: Starting pitcher 1996 Atlanta: 2005: Chicago White Sox [1] [3] Pat Borders United States: Catcher ...
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]
66 1 (27 November 2024) [1] The Ecuador national baseball team is the national baseball team of Ecuador . The team represents Ecuador in international competitions.
Ecuador qualified for the finals tournaments of the 2002, 2006, and 2014 editions of the FIFA World Cup. Ecuador finished ahead of Poland and Costa Rica to come second to Germany in Group A in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, eventually falling to England in the Round of 16. Ecuador failed to advance past the group stage in 2002 and 2014, leaving the ...
The World Series. Dial Press. The New York Times (1980). The Complete Book of Baseball: A Scrapbook History. Sporting News, Baseball Record Book and Baseball Guide, published annually since ca. 1941. Lansch, Jerry (1991). Glory Fades Away: The Nineteenth Century World Series Rediscovered. Taylor Publishing. ISBN 0-87833-726-1.
The WBSC World Rankings is a ranking system for national teams in baseball, softball, and baseball5. The teams of the member nations of the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), baseball's world governing body, are ranked based on their tournament results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. A point system is used, with ...
The following is a chronological list of the starting pitchers for each World Series game contested in Major League Baseball. [1]Each pitcher's win–loss record for World Series starts, cumulative through the game in question, is listed when the starting pitcher received a win or loss.
This was also the first time professional players were allowed to compete in baseball, though Major League Baseball (MLB) did not permit any player on the 40-man roster of an MLB team to compete. [8] In 2004 , the reigning gold medalist United States did not qualify for the Olympic tournament, while the Cuban team won its third gold medal.