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The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league.
National League (baseball), one of the two baseball leagues constituting Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada; National League (division), the fifth division of the English football (soccer) system; National League (ice hockey), the top tier of the Swiss ice hockey league system; National League may also refer to:
Oft-cited arguments in favor of the National Association are its status as the first fully professional baseball league, the fact that several of its teams continued on as part of the National League when it was founded in 1876, and the much more complete state of National Association records today than they were in 1969, thanks to research ...
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada.
The National League West is one of Major League Baseball's six divisions. This division was created for the 1969 season when the National League (NL) expanded to 12 teams by adding the San Diego Padres and the Montreal Expos .
d Atlanta and New York were tied for the division title, but the Braves claimed the National League East title by winning the season series 10–9. e Miami and Arizona of the National League West were tied for the fifth seed and the second wild-card berth, but the Marlins claimed the second wild-card spot by winning the season series 4–2.
By 1997, the average American League game lasted 2:57 (National League games were about 10 minutes shorter—pitchers at the plate making for quicker outs than designated hitters). [126] In 2004, Major League Baseball declared that its goal was an average game of 2:45. [125] By 2014, though, the average MLB game took over three hours to ...
In Game 1 of the 2010 National League Division Series, Halladay threw the second no-hitter in Major League Baseball postseason history, leading the Phillies over the Cincinnati Reds, 4–0. (The first was New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. [56]) Halladay's no-hitter was the fifth time a pitcher has ...