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The number of Mexico’s critically endangered vaquita marina porpoises sighted in the Gulf of California fell to between 6 and 8 this year, researchers said Tuesday. Last year, experts on a ...
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 International Whaling Commission released its first ever extinction alert to raise awareness surrounding the decreasing vaquita porpoise population.
The New York Yankees are sending their home yard out in style in Game 5 of the World Series, as Giancarlo Stanton crushed their third home run of the night to give them a 5-0 lead after three innings.
This was also the last World Series to be broadcast by Jack Buck (who was replaced by Sean McDonough on the CBS telecasts in the role of lead play-by-play man). The World Series telecast drew an overall national Nielsen rating of 24.0 and a 39 share for CBS. Game 7 drew a 32.2 rating and 49 shares; as of 2012, no subsequent World Series game ...
In both the 1955 and 1956 World Series, the home team won the first six games of the World Series, but lost Game 7. It would not be until 1987 when the home team won all seven games of a World Series. [14] However, the Yankees became the first American League team to lose a World Series in which the home team won all seven games, in 2001. [14] [15]
The Los Angeles Dodgers will take a second try at closing out the World Series on the road, as they take a 3-1 series lead to Yankee Stadium for Game 5.. The New York Yankees avoided a sweep in ...
The 1963 sweep was their second victory against the Yankees, and their first against them as a Los Angeles team. The Dodgers won four more pennants in 1966, 1974, 1977, and 1978, but lost in each World Series appearance. They went on to win the World Series again in 1981, thanks in part to pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela. Fernando Valenzuela