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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]
MLB postponed Monday's scheduled World Series Game 3 between the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies due to rain in Philadelphia. Commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed the move.
Bobby Kielty and David Ross both hit their final home runs in a World Series game—Kielty hit his for the Boston Red Sox in the series-clinching Game 4 of the 2007 World Series, while Ross's occurred in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series and was an important contribution to ending the 108 year title drought of the Chicago Cubs.
The perfect game thrown by Don Larsen in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series is the only postseason perfect game in major league history and one of only three postseason no-hitters. The first two major league perfect games, and the only two of the premodern era, were thrown in 1880, five days apart.
Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani played in Game 3 of the World Series on Monday night, ... becoming the first player in MLB history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in the same season ...
Down 2-0 in the World Series to the Los Angeles Dodgers going into Monday's Game 3, ... He replaces Austin Wells, who hit a combined 1-for-8 in Games 1 and 2 and is batting .098 in the postseason.
On October 8, 2018, Brock Holt of the Boston Red Sox hit for the cycle against the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the American League Division Series; it was the first cycle in MLB postseason history. In a regular-season game on September 19, 2021, Eddie Rosario of the Atlanta Braves collected his cycle on just five pitches, the smallest number ...
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