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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]
October 20 – The talk of an Oakland Athletics dynasty is proven premature, as the Cincinnati Reds beat Oakland 2–1 to complete one of the most stunning sweeps in World Series history. Series MVP José Rijo (2–0, 0.59 ERA) retires the last 20 batters he faces to give the Reds their first World Championship since 1976.
Series featuring relocated teams [a] are kept with their ultimate relocation franchises. Bolded years indicate wins. Tables are sorted first by the number of series, then the number of wins, and then alphabetically. The list only includes postseason series played since the introduction of the World Series in 1903.
MLB Opening Day 2024: Picks for division winners, World Series champion, Cy Young, MVP, Shohei Ohtani and more. Yahoo Sports Staff. March 28, 2024 at 2:39 PM. Today there will be baseball.
The 1993 World Series was the last postseason series ever played at Veterans Stadium. Along with the Montreal Canadiens winning the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals , 1993 became the first (and to date, only) year in which at least two championships of the four major North American sports leagues were won by Canadian teams.
Free Press sports writers predict orders of finish for each of baseball's divisions, postseason award winners and the 2021 World Series.
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This was the first World Series since 1968 to not feature a team from New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, or California. This was the first time the World Series was played in the state of Wisconsin since 1958, when the then-Milwaukee Braves, the defending World Series champions, were defeated by the New York Yankees in seven games. It was ...