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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]
The series was promoted and referred to as "The Championship of the United States", [5] [6] "World's Championship Series", or "World's Series" for short. In his book Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 , Simon Winchester mentions in passing that the World Series was named for the New York World newspaper, [ 7 ] but this view ...
Plaza to a Forgotten War is the title of Johnsen Schmaling Architects' design proposal for the National World War I Memorial (Washington, D.C.), which was selected as one of five finalists in an international design competition drawing more than 350 entries from around the world. [15] The Washington Post called Johnsen Schmaling's design the ...
Strasburg was credited with the win, making him 4–0 in the 2019 postseason, [66] while Verlander's career World Series record fell to 0–5. [66] Winners of eight games in a row and 18 of their last 20, [66] the Nationals won to take a 2–0 lead in the World Series with the next game scheduled for two nights later at Nationals Park. [66]
Through the 2022 postseason, five NL wild card teams have gone on to win the World Series (Florida in 1997 and 2003, St. Louis in 2011, San Francisco in 2014 and Washington in 2019). Five teams won the NL pennant but lost the World Series (New York in 2000, San Francisco in 2002, Houston in 2005, Colorado in 2007, and Philadelphia in 2022 ...
This was the second World Series to feature two expansion teams, as well as the first World Series since 1933 to come to Washington, D.C., when the Washington Senators fell to the New York Giants in five games. In the first championship series in the history of North American sports in which neither team won a home game, the 93-win Nationals ...
The 1959 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1959 season.The 56th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers against the American League (AL) champion Chicago White Sox.
Todd Worrell held off a late rally by the Twins in Game 5 as the Cardinals won, 4–2, now one win away from their second title in five years. The Cardinals tied a World Series record for stolen bases with five in Game 5, matching the 1907 Chicago Cubs. The Cardinals' lead would not hold as the series shifted back to Minneapolis, however.