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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]
This was the first World Series game ever played in Colorado. At 4 hours 19 minutes, it became the longest nine-inning game in World Series history. Game 3 was also the 600th World Series game ever played. Starting pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka pitched five innings of scoreless ball and left in the sixth with no runs allowed. The Red Sox struck ...
The next year was the first year that all the major league teams broadcast their games. Prophetically, it was also the year of the first televised baseball game. In 1935, Baseball Commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis orchestrated a radio deal that covered the World Series. All three networks were involved, and baseball made US$400,000.
Rookie Evan Carter then delivers the first run of the Series an RBI double of the base of the right-center field wall. Adolis Garcia then smacked a run-scoring single to left for a 2-0 Rangers lead.
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Game 1 of the World Series — everyone's been talking about this all week. For us to get that first win, especially like that, that's pretty good, but we've got three more to go.”
Each of the games in the series will start at 7:03 p.m. CT. President George W. Bush will throw out the first pitch in Game 1. Former Rangers slugger and Hall of Famer Ivan Pudge Rodriguez will ...
The first player to steal a base in a World Series is called the "Taco Hero", [16] with that term first appearing during the 2016 promotion. [27]Mookie Betts is the only player to have been a Taco Hero more than once, having accomplished the feat in 2018 with the Boston Red Sox and in 2020 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. [28]