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The 2024 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball (MLB) for the 2024 season.In each of the two leagues – National and American – the three division winners and three wild card teams (the remaining teams with the best records) participated in the postseason, for a total of twelve teams.
In Game 2, the Cubs jumped into the lead early and held it to take a 2–0 series lead headed to San Francisco. Game 2 was notable for Chicago’s Travis Wood becoming the first relief pitcher since the 1924 World Series to hit a home run.
The Giants, who moved west to San Francisco in 1958, did not win another World Series until 2010. This was the first time that the Indians had been swept in a World Series and the first time that the Giants had swept an opponent in four games (their 1922 sweep included a controversial tie game).
Their series win against San Diego in the NLDS was the first time that a higher-seeded team won that round in the NL since the Dodgers and Braves both did in 2020. This is Los Angeles' 16th National League Championship Series appearance, which leads the league. The New York Mets qualified for the postseason as the sixth seed wild card entrant.
This is the first American League Championship Series since 2016 to not feature the Houston Astros, who were swept by the Detroit Tigers in the Wild Card Series.This brought an end to the Astros' streak of seven consecutive ALCS appearances (2017–2023), the most consecutive LCS appearances in the American League and the second-most consecutive LCS appearances after the Atlanta Braves ...
MLB's first regular-season interleague game took place on June 12, 1997, as the Texas Rangers hosted the San Francisco Giants at The Ballpark in Arlington.There were four interleague games on the schedule that night, but the other three were played on the West Coast, so the Giants–Rangers matchup started a few hours earlier than the others.
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The Indians defeated the Orioles in six games to return to the World Series for the second time in three years. Both teams split the first two games in Baltimore. The Indians took Game 3 after twelve innings of play, and prevailed in a slugfest in Game 4, 8–7, to go up 3–1 in the series.