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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]
The Houston Astros entered the 2022 MLB season as runners-up in the 2021 World Series championship, falling to the Atlanta Braves in six games. It was the Astros' third World Series appearance in five years, including a route to their fifth consecutive American League (AL) Championship Series.
The two-time Cy Young Award winner and nine-time All-Star took the mound in Game 1 of the 2022 World Series on Friday and once again fell flat in the Fall Classic.
The Astros became the first team to win the World Series at home since the Boston Red Sox did so in 2013. (The Dodgers won as the home team in 2020, but that was played at a neutral site due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The Phillies' record in the World Series fell to 2–6 after the loss. Rookie Jeremy Peña was named World
November 1: World Series Game 6 (if necessary) November 2: World Series Game 7 (if necessary) This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: 2024 MLB playoff schedule: Bracket, dates, time, TV for ...
January 25 – David Green, 61, Nicaraguan outfielder and first baseman with the Cardinals and Giants who batted .283 for St. Louis' 1982 World Series champions. January 27 − Gene Clines , 75, outfielder who played for four teams throughout the 1970s, batting .308 for the 1971 World Series champion Pirates and .334 the following year, later a ...
† Due to the strike that took place in the middle of the 1981 season, Major League Baseball crowned both a "first half" (pre-strike) and "second half" (post-strike) division champion. The teams were then matched against each other in a special division series.