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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]
The title "commissioner", which is a title that is now applied to the heads of several other major sports leagues as well as baseball, derives from its predecessor office, the National Baseball Commission, the ruling body of professional baseball starting with the National Agreement of 1903, which created unity between both the National League and the American League.
Game 4 was the lowest rated World Series game ever, and had the second-smallest audience ever, with only Game 3 of the 2008 World Series having a smaller audience. [115] Game 7 was the least-watched Game 7 ever, falling below the seventh game of 2014. [ 116 ]
World Series starting pitchers: Game 1 Yankees : Gerrit Cole (8-5, 3.41 ERA) – The 2023 AL Cy Young winner missed the early part of the season due to injury. He's made three starts in the 2024 ...
The 2023 World Series was expected to bring a former U.S. president and A-list celebrities to signal the start of Game 1 between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Texas Rangers on Friday.
Game 2: Yankees 7, Dodgers 4. Game 3: Dodgers 9, Yankees 5. Game 4: Yankees 4, Dodgers 3. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Simulated World Series predictions: Cole, Judge lift ...
Game 1 was the least-watched World Series game ever, in terms of number of viewers, per Nielsen Media Research records dating back to 1968; it was also the first World Series game to draw less than 10 million viewers since Game 3 in 2008, which underwent a 90-minute rain delay. [82] Games 2 and 3 subsequently established new lows.
The Cardinals' .185 batting average was the lowest for a seven-game World Series until the New York Yankees hit .183 in the 2001 World Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Cardinals also scored only thirteen total runs—an all-time low for a seven-game series—scoring only once in the final 26 innings of the series.