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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]
Nevertheless, the Braves swept the Athletics—the first unqualified sweep in the young history of the modern World Series (the 1907 World Series had one tied game)—to win the world championship. Meanwhile, former Chicago Cubs infielder Johnny Evers , in his second season with the Braves, won the Chalmers Award .
Aaron was also honored in the design of the team's World Series championship ring, which includes 755 total diamonds to commemorate Aaron's career home runs, and 44 emerald-cut diamonds to represent Aaron's jersey number with the Braves. [89] This was the start of three straight National League teams making the World Series with a sub-90 win total.
Heading into Game 6 of the 2021 World Series, which may very well end up being the final resting place for this run of Astros dominance, Houston needed rookie pitcher Luis Garcia to be at his best.
This was the first World Series played entirely in the South. The Astros and Braves had previously met in the postseason five times, all of which were in the NLDS when the Astros were still a National League team. [13] Of those five series, the Braves won three (1997, 1999, and 2001) while the Astros won two (2004 and 2005). [13]
Series featuring relocated teams [a] are kept with their ultimate relocation franchises. Bolded years indicate wins. Tables are sorted first by the number of series, then the number of wins, and then alphabetically. The list only includes postseason series played since the introduction of the World Series in 1903.
The Nationals' win marked the sixth straight year that a team clinched the World Series title via a win on the road, [note 9] including four times that a Game 7 was won by the visiting team. [93] For the first time in major North American sports history, the visiting team won all seven games of a best-of-seven postseason series.
The 1999 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1999 season.The 95th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the defending American League (AL) and World Series champion New York Yankees and the National League (NL) champion Atlanta Braves in a rematch of the 1996 World Series, in which the Yankees prevailed.