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The current AL pennant holders are the New York Yankees, who beat the Cleveland Guardians for the pennant on October 19, 2024. In 1969, the AL split into two divisions, [ 4 ] and the teams with the best records in each division played one another in the five-game ALCS to determine the pennant winner, who received (and continues to receive) the ...
The National League pennant winner of a given Major League Baseball season is the team that wins the championship—the pennant—of MLB's National League (NL). This team receives the Warren C. Giles Trophy and the right to play in the World Series against the champion of the American League (AL).
A pennant is a commemorative pennon typically used to show support for a particular athletic team. Pennants have been historically used in all types of athletic levels: high school, collegiate, professional etc. Traditionally, pennants were made of felt and fashioned in the official colors of a particular team.
The winner of the NLCS wins the NL pennant and advances to the World Series, MLB's championship series, to play the winner of the American League's (AL) Championship Series. The NLCS began in 1969 as a best-of-five playoff and used this format until 1985, when it changed to a best-of-seven format.
Pennant race, the race to clinch the division title in a regular baseball season; Pennant (military), a tapering flag historically carried for identification purposes by cavalry detachments, attached to lances or standard poles. Pennant, a reference to Flag and pennant patterns in technical analysis of a stock market chart
The Yankees won the pennant with a 109–53 record and went on to defeat the Cincinnati Reds in the 1961 World Series. [160] The team finished the year with 240 home runs, which was an MLB record until surpassed by the 1996 Baltimore Orioles team with 257 home runs. [ 161 ]
From 1972 through 1980, the team name was officially "Oakland A's", although the Commissioner's Trophy, given out annually to the winner of baseball's World Series, still listed the team's name as the "Oakland Athletics" on the gold-plated pennant representing the Oakland franchise.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. Major League Baseball franchise in Milwaukee, Wisconsin This article is about the present-day Major League Baseball team. For other uses, see Milwaukee Brewers (disambiguation). Milwaukee Brewers 2025 Milwaukee Brewers season Logo Cap insignia Established in 1969 Based in Milwaukee since ...