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† Due to the strike that took place in the middle of the 1981 season, Major League Baseball crowned both a "first half" (pre-strike) and "second half" (post-strike) division champion. The teams were then matched against each other in a special division series.
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 2024 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball (MLB) for the 2024 season.In each of the two leagues – National and American – the three division winners and three wild card teams (the remaining teams with the best records) participated in the postseason, for a total of twelve teams.
For the 2020 Major League Baseball season only, there was an expanded playoff format, owing to an abbreviated 60-game regular season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight teams qualified from the National League: the top two teams in each division plus the next two best records among the remaining teams.
American League champion National League champion Negro National League I champion Negro Southern League East–West League Negro National League II champion Negro American League World Series champion NNL I / NSL / NNL II / NAL Championship Series 1930: Philadelphia Athletics: St. Louis Cardinals: St. Louis Stars – – – –
In 1995, an additional playoff series was added when MLB restructured into three divisions in each league. [9] As of 2022 [update] , the winners of the Eastern , Central , and Western Divisions , as well as the three AL Wild Card winners , play in the AL Division Series , a best-of-five playoff to determine the opponents who will play in the ...
The 2019 National League Division Series were two best-of-five series in Major League Baseball (MLB) to determine the participating teams of the 2019 National League Championship Series. The three divisional winners, seeded first through third, and a fourth team—determined by the NL Wild Card Game—played in two series. These matchups were:
In Major League Baseball (MLB), a sweep refers, depending on the playoff format, to a 4–0, 3–0, or 2–0 series win where one team wins all the games without losing any. The following is a complete list of Major League Baseball postseason sweeps since the World Series began in 1903 .