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Major League Baseball released its 2022 regular season schedule on August 4, 2021. As has been the case since 2013, all teams play their four division opponents 19 times each for a total of 76 games, play six or seven games against each of the other ten same-league opponents for a total of 66 games, and 20 interleague games.
The 1979 Cleveland Indians season was the 79th season for the franchise, the 65th as the Indians and the 48th season at Cleveland Stadium. They improved upon their 69–90 campaign from the previous season , but missed the playoffs for the 25th consecutive season, finishing the season at 81–80.
Halfway through the season on July 5, the American League's Cleveland Indians debuted Larry Doby, becoming the first black player in the American League and breaking the AL color line. Doby was a more low-key figure, suffered many of the same indignities that Robinson did, albeit with less press coverage.
The regular season ended on September 26, with the New York Giants and Cleveland Indians as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The postseason began with Game 1 of the 51st World Series on September 29 and ended with Game 4 on October 2.
On June 28, the Indians defeated the Chicago White Sox 19–10, only the second time in franchise history (and the first since 1923) the team had scored at least 19 runs twice in one season. Also on June 28, the Indians and White Sox set the Major League record for longest double header without extra innings, with Game 1 lasting 4 hours, 2 ...
The Astros swept the Indians to return to the ALCS for the second year in a row. Justin Verlander pitched five solid innings as the Astros blew out the Indians in Game 1. Houston’s Gerrit Cole outdueled Cleveland’s Carlos Carrasco in a pitcher’s duel in Game 2 as they took a 2–0 series lead headed to Cleveland.
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The previous record of most home runs hit in a season, set at 5,064 in 1998, [1] was broken once again as the American League and National League combined to hit 5,528 home runs. [2] Moreover, it was the first season in 49 [3] years to feature a team that scored 1,000 runs in a season, as the Cleveland Indians led the Majors with 1,009 runs ...