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The 2008 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2008 season. The 104th edition of the World Series, [ 2 ] it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Philadelphia Phillies and the American League (AL) champion Tampa Bay Rays ; the Phillies won the series, four games to one.
The 2008 Baltimore Orioles season was the 108th season in Baltimore Orioles franchise history, the 55th in Baltimore, and the 17th at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The Orioles entered the 2008 season led by Dave Trembley , now starting his first full season as manager.
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]
It is the largest successful postseason comeback since Game 4 of the 1929 World Series, and the largest ever for a team facing elimination. October 19–– The Tampa Bay Rays advance to the World Series for the first time in their history, beating the Boston Red Sox 3–1 in Game Seven of the 2008 American League Championship Series.
The 2008 Major League Baseball season began on March 25, 2008, in Tokyo, Japan with the 2007 World Series champion Boston Red Sox defeating the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome 6–5 (in 10 innings) in the first game of a two-game series, [1] [2] and ended on September 30 with the host Chicago White Sox defeating the Minnesota Twins in a one-game playoff to win the AL Central.
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This was the first postseason meeting between the Rays and Red Sox. Despite blowing a 3–1 series lead, the Rays managed to hold on and advance to the World Series for the first time in franchise history, denying the Red Sox a shot at back-to-back titles (in the process denying a rematch of the 1915 World Series between the Red Sox and Phillies).