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The 2010 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2010 season. [2] The 106th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion Texas Rangers and the National League (NL) champion San Francisco Giants; the Giants won the series, four games to one, to secure their first World Series championship since ...
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]
Phil Cavarretta, 94, three-time All-Star first baseman for Chicago Cubs (1934–1953) who won the National League MVP in 1945 to lead the team to the World Series; as player-manager, compiled a 169–213 (.442) record from July 22, 1951 through end of 1953 campaign. Ann Cindric, 88, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League pitcher.
Halladay twirled the first postseason no-hitter since Don Larsen's perfect game in the fifth game of the 1956 World Series leading the Phillies to a 4–0 win in the first game of the 2010 National League Division Series at Citizens Bank Park over the Cincinnati Reds. Halladay walked Jay Bruce in the fifth inning as the only blemish on the ...
The 2010 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2010 season. The winners of the Division Series would move on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
The team's 83–78 regular season record is the worst ever by an eventual World Series champion, usurping the 1987 Minnesota Twins' 85–77 campaign. La Russa became the second manager to win a World Series in both the American League and National League – a distinction shared with his mentor Sparky Anderson.
The Rangers won the 2010 ALCS and faced the National League champion San Francisco Giants in the 2010 World Series, the franchise's first ever appearance in the World Series, but would go on to lose to the Giants in five games. [2] The series, the 41st in league history, began October 15 and ended on October 22.
The 2010 National League Championship Series (NLCS) was a best-of-seven playoff series in Major League Baseball’s 2010 postseason that pitted the winners of the 2010 National League Division Series - the overall #1 seed Philadelphia Phillies and the second-seeded San Francisco Giants — against each other for the National League Championship ...