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The Braves returned strong the following strike-shortened (144 games instead of the customary 162) year and beat the Cleveland Indians in the 1995 World Series. [33] This squelched claims by many Braves critics that they were the "Buffalo Bills of Baseball" (January 1996 issue of Beckett Baseball Card Monthly). With this World Series victory ...
This game set a World Series record for the longest scoreless tie in Game 7. Only one other World Series game went longer without a run, Game 6 of the 1956 World Series, which went to two outs in the bottom of the 10th before the winning run scored. The 1991 World Series was the second in five seasons where the home team won all seven games ...
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.
It's the first World Series game the Braves have won since 1996. Austin Riley added an RBI double later in the first, then Soler got another RBI on a fielder's choice in the second, Adam Duvall ...
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It was the first World Series after the previous year's Series was canceled due to a players' strike. The Braves won in six games to capture their third World Series championship in franchise history (along with 1914 in Boston and 1957 in Milwaukee), making them the first team to win in three different cities. This was also Cleveland's first ...
The Braves throttled the Houston Astros 7-0, the first shutout in a clinching World Series game since 2005 and the final notes of a bravura second-half performance from a team that won fewer games ...
They were again defeated by the Yankees in a 4-game sweep. The Braves would not return to the World Series until 2021, and have made only three appearances in the NLCS since (in 2001, 2020, and 2021). The Braves' 2-game lead in the 1996 World Series marked the closest the Braves would come to a second World Series title in the Bobby Cox era.