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The 2016 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2016 season.The 112th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Chicago Cubs and the American League (AL) champion Cleveland Indians, the first meeting of those franchises in postseason history.
Zobrist with the World Series MVP Award in 2016. In Game 4 of the 2016 National League Division Series against the San Francisco Giants with the Cubs having a 2–1 series lead, Zobrist drove in Kris Bryant to score the first run in the top of the ninth and later scored the tying run on a two-run single by Willson Contreras.
Willie Stargell was named MLB MVP, LCS MVP, and World Series MVP in 1979. Six pitchers have won the Cy Young Award and the World Series MVP in the same season: Bob Turley (1958), Whitey Ford (1961), Koufax (1963, 1965), Bret Saberhagen (1985), Orel Hershiser (1988), and Johnson (2001). The Cy Young Award was initiated in 1956, as one award for ...
1907 – World Series championship; 1908; 1908 – World Series championship; 1910; 1918; 1929; 1932; 1935; 1938; 1945; 2016 – Warren C. Giles Trophy (National League championship) 2016 – Commissioner's Trophy (World Series) 2016 – Baseball America Organization of the Year; 2017 – Laureus World Sports Award for Team of the Year
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Freddie Freeman was named the Most Valuable Player of a star-studded World Series on Wednesday in a storybook ending to what has been a challenging season both on and off the ...
The biggest break, Freeman said, was that by losing Game 5 of the NLCS against the New York Mets, it forced the World Series to start three days later, giving Freeman four full days to recover.
Rizzo played for the Chicago Cubs, which won the 2016 World Series after 108 years since their previous one. ... His performance earned him the World Series MVP Award, making Matsui the first ...
He made his MLB debut in 2014 and won the 2016 World Series with the Cubs. The Cubs traded Soler to the Royals after the 2016 season. He led the American League in home runs in 2019. Traded to Atlanta in 2021, Soler won the 2021 World Series and earned the World Series Most Valuable Player Award. Soler signed with the Marlins before the 2022 ...