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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 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.
Over the history of the World Series, 64 games have gone to extra innings, setting the following innings-related records. [29] Most extra innings played in a World Series game: 9 (2018, game 3). Further, game 3 was the longest World Series game played in terms of elapsed time. [30] Most extra innings played over the course of a World Series: 9 ...
There have been 25 teams in World Series history who have trailed 3-0. The Yankees are one of just four to have even forced a Game 5. Of those four teams, none has ever made it to a Game 6.
A series-by-series look at each of the World Series the Dodgers franchise played in before winning it all again in 2024.
The Los Angeles Dodgers completed a five-run comeback Wednesday to win the World Series. ... New York 7-6 in Game 5 on Wednesday night. ... Yankees ahead 6-5, but the Dodgers rallied one last time ...
The 1–0 shutout was the first game with a total of one run scored to end a World Series since the 1995 World Series, in which Game 6 was won by the Atlanta Braves over the Cleveland Indians, and the first 1–0 game in any Series game since Game 5 of the 1996 World Series when the New York Yankees shut-out the Braves in the last game ever ...
That tied Freeman with George Springer (Astros, 2017-19) for the longest such streak in World Series history. The home run provided the first burst of offense en route to the Dodgers' 4-2 Game 3 win .