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The 2014 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2014 season. The 110th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion San Francisco Giants and the American League (AL) champion Kansas City Royals. The series was played from October 21 to 29.
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]
Division Series (ALDS, NLDS) League Championship Series (ALCS, NLCS) World Series 1 LA Angels 0 4 Kansas City: 9: 4 Kansas City: 3: 5 Oakland 8 American League: 4 Kansas City: 4: 2 Baltimore 0 2 Baltimore: 3: 3 Detroit 0 AL4 Kansas City: 3 NL5 San Francisco: 4: 1 Washington 1 4 Pittsburgh 0 5 San Francisco: 3: 5 San Francisco: 8: National ...
† 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.
June 30 – Bobby Castillo, 59, pitcher for three clubs in nine seasons from 1977 to 1985 and a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers' 1981 World Series championship team, who is regarded as the man who taught Fernando Valenzuela the screwball pitch, helping put into motion one of the most memorable periods in Los Angeles Dodgers' history.
The name of the event, initially known as the World's Championship Series, was gradually shortened in common usage to "World's Series" and, by the 1930s, to "World Series". The list of postseason rules evolved over time. From 1919 to 1921, the best-of-nine format first used in 1903 was employed.
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The 2014 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2014 season.The winners of the Division Series would move on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.