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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 ...
Major League Baseball is the oldest of North America's major professional sports organizations, with roots dating back to the 1870s. The final series to determine its champion has been called the "World Series" (originally "World's Championship Series" and then "World's Series") as far back as the National League's contests with the American Association starting at the beginning of the 1880s.
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 Diamondbacks won the regular season series 3–1, splitting a two-game series in May at Globe Life Field, and sweeping the Rangers at Chase Field in August. [5] This was the third time in World Series history that the two teams that faced each other were both from the Expansion era, the first coming in 2015 [6] and the second in 2019. [7]
2024 MLB postseason format: Latest bracket, schedule leading up to the World Series. ... October 26: World Series Game 2. October 28: World Series Game 3. October 29: World Series Game 4. October ...
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 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.
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 ...