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The following is a chronological list of the starting pitchers for each World Series game contested in Major League Baseball. [1]Each pitcher's win–loss record for World Series starts, cumulative through the game in question, is listed when the starting pitcher received a win or loss.
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]
Denny McLain had a remarkable season in 1968, as he went 31–6 with a 1.96 earned run average (ERA), was an All-Star, won the Cy Young Award, won the AL Most Valuable Player Award, and won Game 6 of the World Series. He is the only pitcher since 1934 to win 30 games in a season. Beleaguered by legal and financial troubles in later years ...
[5] [6] [7] They then won a tightly contested 1986 National League Championship Series against the Houston Astros, 4 games to 2, clinching the series with a 7–6, 16-inning win in Game 6. On July 19, Mets' infielder Tim Teufel and pitchers Rick Aguilera , Bobby Ojeda , and Ron Darling were arrested after fighting with policemen outside a bar ...
The Rangers went 6-0 in his starts, making him the first pitcher to have his team win all six of his games. Rookie outfielder Evan Carter hit nine doubles this postseason, an MLB record.
This was the 40th time a World Series reached its deciding Game 7. [86] [note 7] The starting pitchers were Washington's Max Scherzer, who won Game 1, and Houston's Zack Greinke, who received a no decision in Game 3, [87] making this the first World Series Game 7 started by two previous Cy Young Award winners. [88]
This series marked the first time that the Commissioner's Trophy was presented to the World Series-winning team. [13] Lou Brock stole three bases in Game 7 for a record seven thefts in a seven-game series, surpassing the mark set by Honus Wagner in 1909. [14] The Cardinals tied a World Series record by using eight pitchers in their Game 6 loss.
The Red Sox won the AL East division by 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 games over the Baltimore Orioles, then defeated the three-time defending World Series champion Oakland Athletics, three games to none, in the AL Championship Series. The sixth game of the World Series was a 12-inning classic at Boston's Fenway Park, which culminated with a walk-off home run by ...