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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]
The Cubs are the first Major League Baseball team to come back from a 3–1 series deficit to win the World Series since the 1985 Royals and the first since the 1979 Pirates to do so by winning Games 6 & 7 on the road. Most recent World Series game seven to be decided in extra innings. First extra-innings game seven to be won by the road team.
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 ...
[1] 2020 was also the first season where two different cities won multiple championships, with the Los Angeles Lakers winning the 2020 NBA Finals and the Los Angeles Dodgers winning the 2020 World Series. New York City is the only city to win multiple titles in back-to-back seasons, doing so in 1926–1927 and 1927–1928. [2]
Despite losing the series, the Yankees scored 55 runs, the most runs scored by any one team in World Series history, and more than twice as many as the Pirates, who scored 27. The Yankees won three blowouts (16–3, 10–0, and 12–0), while the Pirates won four close games (6–4, 3–2, 5–2, and 10–9) to win the series.
The Texas Rangers are back in the World Series for the first time since twice being within one strike of winning the title in 2011. After entering this season with a franchise-long streak of six ...
The previous record for most overall wins in one season was 116, set by the 1986 World Series champion New York Mets. [6] The sweep marked the first time the Yankees swept a World Series since 1950 when they swept the Philadelphia Phillies. [7] They were also the first team to sweep a World Series since the Cincinnati Reds in 1990.
On Fox alone, the World Series in total averaged 15.20 million viewers, up 67% from last year (9.11 million) and the best five-game average since 2017 (16.42 million).