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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 1986 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1986 season. The 83rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion New York Mets and the American League (AL) champion Boston Red Sox .
Won World Series 4–1 † 1911: MLB † AL * — 1st 101 50 .669 — Won World Series 4–2 † 1912: MLB AL — 3rd 90 62 .592 15 1913: MLB † AL * — 1st 96 57 .627 — Won World Series 4–1 † 1914: MLB AL * — 1st 99 53 .651 — Lost World Series 4–0 * Eddie Collins 1915: MLB AL — 8th 43 109 .283 58½ 1916: MLB AL — 8th 36 117 ...
The 1986 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 1986 season. The winners of each division advance to the postseason and face each other in a League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
April 7 – On Opening Day at Tiger Stadium, Dwight Evans of the Boston Red Sox achieves a major league first by hitting a home run off Jack Morris on the first pitch of the season. [ 27 ] April 29 – Roger Clemens , age 23, struck out twenty Seattle Mariners at Fenway Park to set a major league record for a nine-inning game.
The lowest-rated individual game was Game 2 in 2023, which had a 4.0 rating. [9] Though the game did not have the smallest viewership in World Series history, that mark belongs to Game 3 in 2023 at 8.126 million. That game had a 4.2 rating. [10] The previous least viewed game was Game 2 in 2023, which had 8.153 million viewers. [9]
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.
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