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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.
Game 1 was the least-watched World Series game ever, in terms of number of viewers, per Nielsen Media Research records dating back to 1968; it was also the first World Series game to draw less than 10 million viewers since Game 3 in 2008, which underwent a 90-minute rain delay. [82] Games 2 and 3 subsequently established new lows.
The Los Angeles Dodgers have a 1-0 World Series lead heading into Game 2 against the New York Yankees tonight at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers needed extra innings to pick up the 6-3 victory in Game 1.
One day after Texas pulled off one of the most dramatic games in World Series history in a 6-5 win in Game 1, Arizona dominated Game 2 with a 16-hit attack in a lopsided 9-1 win at Globe Life Field.
It was also the Dodgers' first game-winning World Series home run since Kirk Gibson in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series. The game took longer to play than the entire 1939 World Series, which had seven hours and five minutes of total playing time over four games. [52] Until Game 1 of the 2022 World Series, this was the last World Series game to ...
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It was the first time since 2001–2002 when two consecutive World Series went to seven games. Both teams set a World Series record with a combined total of 25 home runs throughout the entire series, including a team record 15 home runs by the Astros, and 10 homeruns by the Dodgers, and hit a combined total of eight home runs in Game 2 to set ...