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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 Dodgers took a commanding World Series advantage by throttling the Yankees in Game 3, a 4-2 conquest Monday night that saw a burst of starting pitching excellence from Walker Buehler, Freddie ...
Dodgers look to take a 3-1 series lead after a dominant win in Game 3 at Citi Field. Follow for live updates. Dodgers one win from World Series after another NLCS blowout vs. Mets: Highlights
The New York Yankees are sending their home yard out in style in Game 5 of the World Series, as Giancarlo Stanton crushed their third home run of the night to give them a 5-0 lead after three innings.
This was the 40th time a World Series reached its deciding Game 7. [86] [note 7] The starting pitchers were Washington's Max Scherzer, who won Game 1, and Houston's Zack Greinke, who received a no decision in Game 3, [87] making this the first World Series Game 7 started by two previous Cy Young Award winners. [88]
The seven-inning no-hit bid by the Atlanta pitching staff was the longest in a World Series game since Jim Lonborg of the Boston Red Sox went 7 + 2 ⁄ 3 innings before allowing a hit in Game 2 of the 1967 World Series. [39] [40] This was the first shutout in the World Series since Game 3 of the 2016 World Series.
That time, the lead didn't last. The Yankees rallied for an 11-4 win to stave off a sweep and force Game 5.But Freeman's home run did make history.With his sixth straight World Series game with a ...
In both the 1955 and 1956 World Series, the home team won the first six games of the World Series, but lost Game 7. It would not be until 1987 when the home team won all seven games of a World Series. [14] However, the Yankees became the first American League team to lose a World Series in which the home team won all seven games, in 2001. [14] [15]