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The 2004 Boston Red Sox, seen here at the White House, were the first MLB team to win a game seven after being down 3–0 in a series.. Three major North American professional sports leagues have playoff series that can reach a seventh game: Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the National Hockey League (NHL).
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 Yankees went up 3–0 in the series after a 19–8 bludgeoning of the Red Sox in Game 3. After the game, Bob Ryan of The Boston Globe wrote, "They are down, 3–0, after last night's 19–8 rout, and, in this sport, that is an official death sentence. Soon it will be over, and we will spend another dreary winter lamenting this and lamenting ...
The 2004 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2004 season. The 100th edition of the World Series , it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Boston Red Sox and the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals ; [ 1 ] the Red Sox swept the Cardinals in four games.
Game 3 of the series resumed on October 27, where the Athletics blew out the Giants to go up 3–0 in the series. The Athletics completed a sweep of the Giants the next day with a 9–6 victory in Game 4. With the win, the Athletics improved their World Series record against the Giants to 3–1.
The first scheduled night World Series game was Game 4 of the 1971 World Series at Three Rivers Stadium. [24] Afterward, World Series games were frequently scheduled at night, when television audiences were larger. Game 6 of the 1987 World Series was the last World Series game played in the daytime, [25] indoors at the Metrodome in Minnesota.
Down 5-0 in Game 5 of the World Series, the Dodgers capitalized on several Yankee blunders in the fateful fifth inning to tie the game and eventually win 7-6 to clinch the franchise's eighth ...
The Blue Jays defeated the White Sox in six games to return to the World Series for the second year in a row. The Blue Jays stole Game 1 on the road with a 7–3 victory. In Game 2, Dave Stewart out-dueled Chicago's Alex Fernandez as the Jays won 3–1 to take a 2–0 series lead headed back home to Toronto. However, things didn't go quite the ...