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The 2021 Major League Baseball season began on April 1, while the regular season ended on October 3. [1] The postseason began on October 5. The World Series then began on October 26 and ended on November 2 with the Atlanta Braves defeating the Houston Astros in six games to win their second title since moving to Atlanta.
The 2021 American League Championship Series was the best-of-seven series in Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2021 postseason between the fourth-seeded Boston Red Sox and the second-seeded Houston Astros. The series determined the American League pennant winner, the Astros, who advanced to the 2021 World Series.
This was eighth and final year of the U.S. TV contracts with ESPN, Fox Sports, and TBS. ESPN aired the American League Wild Card Game, Fox Sports 1 and MLB Network split the American League Division Series, and the Fox broadcast network and Fox Sports 1 split the American League
The final team was the winner of the American League Wild Card Game, played between the league's fourth and fifth seeded teams. The Tampa Bay Rays clinched the American League East on September 26 [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and secured the AL's best record and home-field advantage throughout the AL postseason with a 100–62 record on September 28. [ 5 ]
The 2021 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 2020–21 season.With the COVID-19 pandemic impacting the NBA for the second consecutive year, the regular season was reduced to 72 games for each team and the start date of the playoffs was moved from its usual time in mid-April to May 22, 2021.
Get ready: Baseball's postseason begins Tuesday with a high-stakes Yankees-Red Sox showdown.
Wednesday Night Baseball is a live game telecast of Major League Baseball during Wednesday nights in the regular season on ESPN or ESPN2. From 1990 to 2021, ESPN generally aired weekly games on Wednesday nights. Beginning with the 2022 Major League Baseball season, ESPN significantly reduced their MLB schedule, which included cutting most of ...
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