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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]
Due to the players' strike, which ran from June 12 to August 8, the 1981 season was split into two halves, with the first-place teams from each half in each division (or a wild card team if the same club won both halves, although this did not occur in any division) meeting in the best-of-five League Division Series (this division series was a one-off occasion; it was not until 1994 that the ...
This was the third World Series meeting between the Cardinals and Red Sox. It was also the ninth meeting between teams from Boston and St. Louis for a major professional sports championship. This previously happened in two World Series (1946, 1967), four NBA Finals (1957, 1958, 1960, 1961), Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002, and the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals.
Former Reds manager Dusty Baker, 73, would become the oldest manager to ever win the World Series if his Astros can beat the Phillies.
Dusty Baker's accomplishments after age 70 include his only World Series title in 26 years as a manager. He also was the left fielder on the Dodgers' 1981 championship team.
Seven-game series winners were outscored in 1957, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1991, 1997, and 2002; (equaled in 2016 and 2017). With complete games pitched consecutively in Games 2 through 6 (all for the winning pitcher), as of 2019 this was the last World Series to be completed without a pitcher recording a save.
October 25: World Series Game 1. October 26: World Series Game 2. October 28: World Series Game 3. October 29: World Series Game 4. October 30: World Series Game 5 (if necessary) November 1: World ...
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.