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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]
The first player to steal a base in a World Series is called the "Taco Hero", [16] with that term first appearing during the 2016 promotion. [27]Mookie Betts is the only player to have been a Taco Hero more than once, having accomplished the feat in 2018 with the Boston Red Sox and in 2020 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. [28]
The 2001 World Series was the first World Series to end in November, due to the week-long delay in the regular season after the September 11 attacks. Game 4 had begun on Oct 31 but went into extra innings and ended early on the morning of Nov 1, the first time the Series had been played in November.
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Freeman’s walk-off grand slam was the first in World Series history, closing the book on Game 1. The moments that followed Freeman’s swing of a lifetime were pure jubilation, as his teammates ...
The Rangers got the last laugh against the Astros and then some in the ALCS, then took down the D-Backs to finally get the World Series monkey off their backs after falling short in 2010 and 2011 ...
The 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series to be played in Major League Baseball. It matched the American League (AL) champion Boston Americans against the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates [ note 2 ] in a best-of-nine series, with Boston prevailing five games to three, winning the last four.
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 ...