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Here was the schedule for the 120th Fall Classic: Game 1: Friday, Oct. 25 (Yankees at Dodgers; LAD won, 6-3) Game 2: Saturday, Oct. 26 (Yankees at Dodgers; LAD won, 4-2) Game 3: Monday, Oct. 28 (Dodgers at Yankees; LAD won, 4-2) Game 4: Tuesday, Oct. 29 (Dodgers at Yankees; NYY won, 11-4) Game 5: Wednesday, Oct. 30 (Dodgers at Yankees; LAD won, 7-6) · Not as much as you might think. On one hand, teams with World Series home-field advantage in the Wild Card Era (since 1995) have gone on to win the championship 20 of 29 times (69%), excluding th ...
1903: After two years of discord between the long-established National League and the upstart American League, the two circuits settled their differences and agreed to a postseason series to crown an Interleague champion, a best-of-nine "World's Championship Series." · 1905: The NL champion Giants refused to play the 1904 AL champ Boston Pilgrims in a postseason series, but starting in 1905, the World Series was established as an annual tradition, with 1994 (players' strike) the only year sinc...
Eight teams have won at least five World Series titles -- and two of them met in the 2024 Fall Classic: the Yankees, with their MLB-record 27 championships, and the Dodgers, who were going for thei...
ATLANTA -- Dylan Lee now has the distinction of being the pitcher who made the fewest career appearances before making a World Series start. Lee served as the Braves’ opener against the Astros in a...
Buoyed by a deluge of early runs off Dodgers starter Yu Darvish and their own stellar mishmash of pitchers, the Astros won their first World Series on Wednesday night in a 5-1 victory at Dodger Sta...
The Atlanta Braves won Game 4 of the World Series, pushing the Houston Astros to the brink.
What makes a great team? Well, having great players helps. But every team needs someone who can bring an entire clubhouse together and keep everything on track through the inevitable ups and downs of a long season. Knowing how to handle more than two dozen personalities is just as important as knowing how to properly utilize a bullpen. A good manager is part tactician, part psychologist, and does whatever possible to put their team in the best position to win. Rangers skipper Bruce Bochy is one of those managers. Bochy won three World Series ti ...
Kyle Wright, the Braves reliever with a 6.56 ERA in 21 appearances scattered over four years, became one of the heroes in Game 4 of the World Series.
Game Six of the 2020 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays was the series' most-viewed contest after starting with record lows.