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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 ...
With the Yankees and Dodgers meeting in the World Series for the 12th time in history, we rank the teams' best World Series matchups.
When the series shifted to Anaheim, the Angels took the series lead with a 5–3 victory in Game 3, and then won Game 4 in 11 innings to take a 3–1 series lead, thanks to a walk-off RBI single from Bobby Grich which scored Jerry Narron. The Red Sox would win Game 5 in 11 innings to send the series back to Boston.
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Christy Mathewson is the career leader in World Series complete games, with 10 during 1905–1913, all for the New York Giants. [2] While complete games were once common in the World Series (the first edition without a complete game was 1959) [3] the most recent World Series complete game win was thrown by Johnny Cueto for the Kansas City ...
Top 10 list Former News-Messenger sportswriter ranks his favorite MLB parks. ... "There were garbage bags on the walls. The 1991 World Series, that may have been the best World Series ever, in ...
Baltimore had won more than 90 games in three of the previous four seasons, with a World Series title in 1966. The Royals were an expansion team in their first season. Kansas City won the first meeting on May 9, 1969, but Baltimore took the final 11 that season and swept all 12 in 1970 before the Royals finally took a walk-off win in their ...