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The 2002 Major League Baseball season finished with two wild-card teams contesting the World Series; the Anaheim Angels defeated the San Francisco Giants in seven games for the World Series championship. It was the first title in Angels team history. This was the first season for MLB.tv.
The 2002 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB)'s 2002 season.The 98th edition of the World Series, [1] it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Anaheim Angels and the National League (NL) champion San Francisco Giants; the Angels defeated the Giants, four games to three, to win their first, and, to date, only World Series ...
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]
The Giants are one of the most successful teams in Major League Baseball history, having won more games than any other team and having the second highest winning percentage. [4] In New York, the Giants enjoyed 55 winning seasons, with only 3 losing seasons between 1903 and 1939, a stretch which included two runs of 10 or more straight winning ...
The three-time Cy Young winner will turn 42 in February. ... Justin Verlander will play his 20th MLB season with the San Francisco Giants. ... He was named AL MVP in 2011, in the same season that ...
Five players have received both a Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award and the World Series MVP Award in the same season: Sandy Koufax (1963), Frank Robinson (1966), Reggie Jackson (1973), Willie Stargell (1979), and Mike Schmidt (1980). The MLB MVP has been awarded to a player in each league since 1931. [127]
The 2002 National League Championship Series (NLCS) was a playoff series in Major League Baseball’s 2002 postseason played from October 9 to 14 to determine the champion of the National League, between the Central Division champion and third-seeded St. Louis Cardinals and the wild-card qualifying San Francisco Giants.
For three years, Major League Baseball’s two biggest stars traded off winning the American League Most Valuable Player award, with Ohtani’s two-way greatness on the mound and at the plate ...