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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]
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 ...
Prior to 2020, the only World Series game with less than 10 million viewers had been Game 3 in 2008, [11] which was impacted by a rain delay and had 9.836 million viewers. [ 12 ] The most recent World Series game to record a rating of 30 or higher was Game 7 in 1991 , as the Minnesota Twins defeated the Atlanta Braves ; the game had a ...
Tommy Henrich becomes the first player to hit a walk-off World Series home run, winning Game 1, 1-0, with a leadoff shot in the ninth to wreck a great start by Don Newcombe.
1989 winner Dave Stewart was the first pitcher to win two games each in a League Championship Series and a World Series in the same postseason. 1996 winner John Wetteland set a World Series record with four saves. [116] The 2001 co-MVPs, Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, combined for all four of Arizona's wins in the Series. [71]
Beginning Friday at Dodger Stadium, baseball’s two most legendary franchises will meet for the 12th time in a World Series, the most prolific Series matchup in baseball history even though they ...
The most successful postseason team in MLB history is the New York Yankees, who have achieved three of the four instances of a franchise winning more than two World Series championships in a row (one streak each of durations 3, 4, and 5 seasons) and five of the six instances of a franchise winning the league pennant (i.e., an appearance in the ...
The Dodgers took a commanding World Series advantage by throttling the Yankees in Game 3, a 4-2 conquest Monday night that saw a burst of starting pitching excellence from Walker Buehler, Freddie ...