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The last few weeks of the regular American professional baseball season are known as a pennant race: this is a reference to the period between 1876 and 1968 when the league championships were determined by the team with the best record at the end of the regular season. The pennant winners earn the right to play in MLB's title round, the World ...
The National League pennant winner of a given Major League Baseball season is the team that wins the championship—the pennant—of MLB's National League (NL). This team receives the Warren C. Giles Trophy and the right to play in the World Series against the champion of the American League (AL).
The Yankees also hold the record for most wins by a pennant-winning team, with their 1998 team winning 114 out of 162 games, [16] finishing 22 games ahead of the Boston Red Sox. [17] The 1954 Cleveland Indians won the most games of any pennant winner under the pre-1969 system, winning 111 out of their 154 games [ 18 ] and finishing eight games ...
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The 1948 Major League Baseball season was predicted to be a close race between the Yankees and Red Sox. In a United Press poll conducted just before the season started, the majority of sportswriters chose the Yankees, who had won last year's World Series, to face the Braves or St. Louis Cardinals that year, while others chose the Red Sox; only one sportswriter chose the Indians to reach the ...
[41] [42] [43] The Dodgers were involved in a tight pennant race late in the season, entering the game leading the Milwaukee Braves by 1 ⁄ 2 game and the Giants by 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 games. [44] Maury Wills led off the game with a bunt single off Marichal and, eventually scored a run when Ron Fairly hit a double. [45]
[30] After winning the pennant, the Giants lost to the Yankees in the World Series four games to two. [31] The Brooklyn Dodgers rebounded to win the National League pennant in 1952, but lost the 1952 World Series to the Yankees four games to three. [32] The three games counted statistically as regular season games.
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