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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]
Coming into the series, the two teams had played 66 World Series games against each other all-time, in which the Yankees had a 37–29 record along with an 8–3 World Series record. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The 66 head-to-head World Series games was the most between any two teams by far, with the second most being 43 games between the Yankees and the New ...
The two most prolific World Series winners to date, the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals, did not win their first championship until the 1920s; and three of the teams that were highly successful prior to 1920 (the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs) went the rest of the 20th century without another World Series ...
Dodgers clinched their second World Series title in the last five years by beating the Yankees 7-6 during Game 5 at Yankee Stadium. After a historic season, including setting a home run record ...
Player to win top scorer awards in most continents: 3 – Isidro Lángara, 1930–1948 [note 39] Player to win top scorer awards in most first tier national leagues: 4 – Cristiano Ronaldo, 2002– [139] [note 40] Most domestic top scorer awards: 15 – Romário, 1985–2009 [140] [note 41] [note 42]
The Los Angeles slugger was named World Series MVP on Wednesday after the Dodgers secured a 4-1 series victory over the New York Yankees for the franchise's eighth World Series championship. .300 ...
The 1991 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1991 season. The 88th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Minnesota Twins (95–67) and the National League (NL) champion Atlanta Braves (94–68). The Twins defeated the Braves four games ...
Dodgers players rush to the mound to celebrate with Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler after the final out of a 7-6 win over the New York Yankees to clinch the World Series title Wednesday night at ...