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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 cover boldly predicted that the Astros would be World Series champions in 2017, and was backed up by a story from Ben Reiter entitled " Astro-Matic Baseball: Houston's Grand Experiment," which ...
Final score Series standing Notes 1949: Game 1, October 5 Tommy Henrich, N.Y. Yankees: Yankee Stadium: Don Newcombe, Brooklyn: 0–0, 9th 0 out 0 on 1–0 1–0 NYY Henrich's blast leading off the ninth was the first game-winning home run in Series history, and provided the game's only run. 1954: Game 1, September 29 Dusty Rhodes, N.Y. Giants ...
On October 3, 1999, the Astros played their final regular season game at the Astrodome, clinching the NL Central Division title with a 9–4 win over the Dodgers. The final Astros game in the stadium occurred 6 days later when the Braves eliminated the Astros in Game 4 of the Division Series.
The magazine called the victory three years in advance with its “Your 2017 World Series Champs” headline, and even pegged the right guy for the cover.
The Astros beat the Phillies in six games to win the World Series, thanks to Yordan Alvarez's 450-foot three-run home run in the clincher.
After the boycott of 1904, the World Series was played every year until 1994 despite World War I, the global influenza pandemic of 1918–1919, the Great Depression of the 1930s, America's involvement in World War II, and even an earthquake in the host cities of the 1989 World Series. A breakdown in collective bargaining led to a strike in ...
With six more innings of dazzling work from Framber Valdez and one thunderous swing from Yordan Alvarez, the Astros cut down the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 6, 4-1, to win the 2022 World Series.