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V The 1903, 1919, 1920, and 1921 World Series were in a best-of-nine format (carried by the first team to win five games). T The 1907, 1912, and 1922 World Series each included one tied game . A The Brewers were in the American League from 1969 to 1997 , after which they moved to the National League.
The 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series to be played in Major League Baseball. It matched the American League (AL) champion Boston Americans against the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates [ note 2 ] in a best-of-nine series, with Boston prevailing five games to three, winning the last four.
A crowd overflows the playing field prior to Game 3 of the 1903 World Series. October 3, 1903, at Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston, Massachusetts. Deacon Phillippe, pitching on only one day rest, started Game 3 for the Pirates, and did not let them down as he pitched his second complete-game victory of the series to put the Pirates up two ...
The 1903 season saw the return of a postseason championship series, the World Series, following the one-off 1900 Chronicle-Telegraph Cup. It was also the first inter-league series since the 1890 World's Championship Series between the National League and defunct-since- 1891 American Association .
The Dodgers first baseman hit his third home run of this World Series in as many games and staked L.A. to a 2-0 lead in Game 3 before a sold-out crowd could even watch the Yankees bat in their ...
The World Series beat “Monday Night Football” in the battle for television viewers. The Los Angeles Dodgers' 4-2 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the Fall Classic averaged 13.64 ...
The first scheduled night World Series game was Game 4 of the 1971 World Series at Three Rivers Stadium. [24] Afterward, World Series games were frequently scheduled at night, when television audiences were larger. Game 6 of the 1987 World Series was the last World Series game played in the daytime, [25] indoors at the Metrodome in Minnesota.
The Arizona Diamondbacks head home to Chase Field to play Game 3 of the World Series against the Texas Rangers. The Series is tied 1-1.