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In 1924, the World Series began using a 2-3-2 format, presumably to save on travel costs, a pattern that has continued to this day with the exception of a couple of the World War II years when wartime travel restrictions compelled a 3-4 format (used in 1943 and 1945, but not in the 1944 series, which was contested between crosstown rivals the ...
The league championship series and the World Series are each a 2-3-2 format: The higher seed hosts the first two games, the lower seed hosts Games 3, 4 and 5 (if necessary), and the higher seed ...
[1] [2] [4] [5] The best-of-seven style has been the format of all World Series except in 1903, 1919, 1920, 1921, when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Although the large majority of contests have been played entirely during the month of October, a small number of Series have also had games played during ...
The National League Championship Series (NLCS) and American League Championship Series (ALCS), since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2–3–2 format: Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home-field advantage, and Games 3, 4, and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.
The Dodgers overcame a 3–1 series deficit to defeat the Braves in seven games and return to the World Series for the third time in the past four years. Freddie Freeman, Austin Riley, and Ozzie Albies all homered for the Braves as they took Game 1. Game 2 was a shootout between both teams’ offenses, which was won by the Braves as Freeman and ...
Most best-of-seven series follow a "2–3–2" format or a "2–2–1–1–1" format; that is, in a 2–3–2 series, the first two games are played at the home venue of a team with the home-field advantage (the first "2"), the next three games (the "3", including game 5, if necessary) are played at the home of the team without it, and the ...
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The Dodgers are in a race for World Series home-field advantage despite being all but certain as the National League No. 2 seed behind the Braves, giving L.A. a bye into the NLDS.