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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]
Since 1998, there have been 30 major league teams with a single advance schedule for every season that comprises 2430 games. Each team plays 162 games, 81 as the "home" team, 81 as the "visitor". (This is true even on the rare occasion when a game is played at a ballpark not home to either team.) Occasionally, the advance schedule is ...
The 2018 season was the first time either league had more than two teams win 100 or more games in the same season; the Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros, and New York Yankees of the American League each won 100 or more games, with two led by rookie managers (no season had ever seen more than 100 wins from two managers before).
Each team plays 162 games per season. A team's schedule is typically organized into three-game series, sets of consecutive games against the same opponent, with occasional two- or four-game series. [138] Postponed games or continuations of suspended games can result in an ad hoc one-game or five-game series.
As for a super sports equinox where a single city's teams in each league all play on the same day, only two have happened: November 4, 2001, in the Phoenix area for the Big Four (which involved the Arizona Diamondbacks at the 2001 World Series, and regular season games involving the Arizona Cardinals, Phoenix Suns, and Phoenix Coyotes) and ...
The league currently consists of thirty teams, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada. Each team plays 82 games in the regular season. Eight teams from each of the league's two conferences qualify for the playoffs. The winners of the Conference finals advance to the finals to determine the NBA champions.
World Series champion Colored World Series / NNL I Championship Series 1920: Cleveland Indians: Brooklyn Robins: Chicago American Giants – – Cleveland Indians – 1921: New York Yankees: New York Giants – – New York Giants – 1922 – – New York Giants – 1923: Kansas City Monarchs: Hilldale Club – New York Yankees – 1924
MLB teams have overcome 3–1 deficits 14 times (including one 3–0 deficit), six of which occurred in the World Series. [1] This does not count the 1903 World Series, during which the Boston Americans (or Puritans, or Pilgrims, depending on the source, and later known as the Red Sox) came back from a 3–1 deficit to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates, five games to three, as that was a best-of ...