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The 2019 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2019 season. The 115th edition of the World Series , it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League champion Houston Astros and the National League champion Washington Nationals .
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]
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Strasburg was credited with the win, making him 4–0 in the 2019 postseason, [66] while Verlander's career World Series record fell to 0–5. [66] Winners of eight games in a row and 18 of their last 20, [66] the Nationals won to take a 2–0 lead in the World Series with the next game scheduled for two nights later at Nationals Park. [66]
The postseason began on October 1, and ended on October 30, with the Nationals upsetting the heavily-favored Astros in seven games in the 2019 World Series. It was the first title in franchise history for the Nationals, and the first World Series title won by a team from Washington, D.C. since 1924.
The 2020 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's 2020 season. The 116th World Series was a best-of-seven-playoff between the American League (AL) champion Tampa Bay Rays and the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers .
† Due to the strike that took place in the middle of the 1981 season, Major League Baseball crowned both a "first half" (pre-strike) and "second half" (post-strike) division champion. The teams were then matched against each other in a special division series.
Soto batted .333/.438/.741 with 3 HR and 7 RBIs in the World Series and led the Nationals in home runs, hits, walks, and runs scored. [44] In the postseason overall, he batted .277/.373/.554 with 5 home runs and 14 RBIs and was named the co-winner (with Stephen Strasburg ) of the 2019 Babe Ruth Award . [ 45 ]