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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]
Coincidentally, the Dodgers' World Series celebrations took place on November 1, 2024, on what would have been Valenzuela's 64th birthday. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] [ 113 ] A number of people attending the victory parade and Dodger Stadium celebration held signs commemorating his birthday, [ 111 ] and fans sang "Happy Birthday" all along the parade route.
Christy Mathewson is the career leader in World Series complete games, with 10 during 1905–1913, all for the New York Giants. [2] While complete games were once common in the World Series (the first edition without a complete game was 1959) [3] the most recent World Series complete game win was thrown by Johnny Cueto for the Kansas City ...
Yankees vs. Dodgers World Series history. New York and Los Angeles met in 11 of the World Series in a 41-year span from 1941-81 that started when the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn.
A series-by-series look at each of the World Series the Dodgers franchise played in before winning it all again in 2024.
That tied Freeman with George Springer (Astros, 2017-19) for the longest such streak in World Series history. The home run provided the first burst of offense en route to the Dodgers' 4-2 Game 3 win.
The 2014 World Series set records for lowest-rated Games 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7 in World Series history. The previous Game 7 in World Series history occurred in 2011, when the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers produced a 14.7 rating, a full 1.0 over 2014's Game 7. 2014 is the 5th consecutive year in which the World Series rating was under 10.0 ...
In 1922, WJZ broadcast the entire series, with Rice doing play-by-play. [4] [5] For the 1923 World Series, Rice was joined on Westinghouse for the first time by Graham McNamee. [3] [7] During the 1923 World Series, Rice was the main broadcaster, but during the fourth inning of Game 3, he turned the microphone over to McNamee.