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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]
On this day in 1903, the World Series was born. Game 1 of the eight-game series took place at Huffington Avenue Baseball Grounds, as the Boston Americans hosted the Pittsburg Pirates. Pittsburg ...
The Giants became the first team to play in four consecutive World Series, winning in 1921–1922 and losing in 1923–1924. Their long-time manager, John McGraw, made his ninth and final World Series appearance in 1924. The contest concluded with the second World Series-deciding game which ran to extra innings (the first had occurred in 1912).
Nevertheless, Pittsburgh eventually won the game, scoring three runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to turn a 6–7 deficit into a 9–7 lead. To date, the four-run deficit is the largest ever overcome in the seventh game of the World Series. It was the largest comeback in a World Series clinching game until 2024.
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Two of the most storied teams in baseball are ready to face off in the 2024 World Series. The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees have more than 100 years of history backing them up as they ...
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.
1923 World Series at Baseball Almanac; 1923 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com; The 1923 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet; History of the World Series - 1923 at The Sporting News. Archived from the original in May 2006. Audio – Casey Stengel talks a little Stengel-eese about the Series; New York Yankees ...