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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 ...
This was a rematch of the 1982 NLCS, which the Cardinals won in a sweep en route to winning the World Series. The Braves defeated the Cardinals in seven games to return to the World Series for the fourth time in six years (in the process denying a rematch of the 1964 World Series between the Yankees and Cardinals). The Braves became the first ...
MLB International is a division of Major League Baseball primarily responsible for international broadcasts of games. [1] In partnership with DirecTV and MLB Network, it produces and syndicates the All-Star Game, and the World Series, as well as the Caribbean Series, the Australian Baseball League Championship Series and the World Baseball Classic to broadcasters in over 200 countries, and the ...
The first World Baseball Classic featured 16 teams in a round-robin.Each team played the other three teams in their pool once. Teams were ranked by winning percentage in the first round, with the top two teams in each pool advancing to the second round, where the teams from Pools A and B (in Pool 1) and the teams from Pools C and D (in Pool 2) competed against each other in another round-robin.
Smith would later have his place in World Series history when he became the first player ever to win three consecutive World Series on three separate teams from 2021-2023. [81] The media came up with the nickname ' The Night Shift' for the bullpen, but Luke Jackson later stated he was the one that came up with the name.
The 2006 World Baseball Classic championship was the inaugural final of the World Baseball Classic played on March 20, 2006, at Petco Park in San Diego, California, United States. The best-of-one final was the match to determine the first world champion in baseball .
The Cubs became the sixth team in World Series history to overcome a 3–1 series deficit to win the title, and the first team to do so since the Kansas City Royals in 1985. In Cleveland, the Indians took Game 1 in a 6–0 shutout, while in Game 2, the Cubs prevailed by a 5–1 score to win their first World Series game since 1945 and even the ...