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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]
The Braves would return home looking to force a second straight Game 7 of the World Series, and potentially supplant the 1985 Kansas City Royals as the most recent team to come back from 3-1 down to win the World Series. Smoltz's win in Game 5 was the first of only two World Series wins he recorded in his Hall of Fame career. After recording ...
Of the 28 Series in which at least one expansion team has played, including three Series (2015, 2019, and 2023) in which both teams were expansion teams, expansion teams have won 13 of them, which is 46.4% of all series in which an expansion team played and 10.9% of all 119 series played since 1903.
The Dodgers won Games 3 and 4 to even the Series, as Erskine set a then-record with 14 strikeouts in Game 3, but the Yankees never trailed while winning Games 5 and 6, winning the final game on ...
The list includes only the modern World Series between the American League (AL) and the National League (NL), not the various 19th-century championship series. The most successful postseason team in MLB history is the New York Yankees, who have achieved three of the four instances of a franchise winning more than two World Series championships ...
October 25: World Series Game 1. October 26: World Series Game 2. October 28: World Series Game 3. October 29: World Series Game 4. October 30: World Series Game 5 (if necessary) November 1: World ...
2021 Braves. 2022 Astros. 2023 Rangers. Smith played for all of them.
It was the first time since 2001–2002 when two consecutive World Series went to seven games. Both teams set a World Series record with a combined total of 25 home runs throughout the entire series, including a team record 15 home runs by the Astros, and 10 homeruns by the Dodgers, and hit a combined total of eight home runs in Game 2 to set ...