In 1977, it was Game 6 of the Fall Classic -- the game Reggie Jackson became Mr. October. With 69 innings in total, the 1991 World Series shares the record for longest seven-game World Series ever, in terms of innings, with the 1924 World Series. In 2010 and 2011, he led the Rangers to back-to-back World Series appearances their only two American League pennants. One notable exception is Cuban citizens, because of the political tensions between the US and Cuba since 1959. The Bronx Bombers continued their dominance of the league as they won five straight titles from 1949-53, three of which came against a resurgent Dodgers team. The 2015 contest was the first time that two expansion clubs met in the series. The Houston Astros are the only franchise to have represented both the NL (2005) and the AL (2017, 2019, 2021, 2022), winning the Series in 2017 and 2022. These 16 franchises, all of which are still in existence, have each won at least two World Series titles. Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter won the game with a 10th inning walk-off home run and was dubbed "Mr. November" by elements of the media[25][26] echoing the media's designation of Reggie Jackson as "Mr. October" for his slugging achievements during the 1977 World Series. They swept the Pittsburgh Pirates and the St. Louis Cardinals in both World Series. The 44-year-old delivered back-to-back World Series appearances, keeping the Astros among MLB's most serious contenders despite the fallout from the franchise's cheating scandal. ^****:NBC was originally scheduled to televise the entire 1995 World Series; however, due to the cancellation of the 1994 Series (which had been slated for ABC, who last televised a World Series in 1989), coverage ended up being split between the two networks. Dave Dombrowski doubled down signing superstar shortstop Trea Turner to an 11-year, $300 million contract. Since then each league has conducted a League Championship Series (ALCS and NLCS) preceding the World Series to determine which teams will advance, while those series have been preceded in turn by Division Series (ALDS and NLDS) since 1995, and Wild Card games or series in each league since 2012. For earlier league and inter-league championships, see, List of pre-World Series baseball champions, major North American professional sports leagues, California / Anaheim / Los Angeles Angels, List of Major League Baseball franchise postseason streaks, List of Major League Baseball franchise postseason droughts, "Baseball-Reference Playoff and World Series Index", "World Series History: Championships by Club", "Phillies Announce World Series Trophy Tour Presented by Teva Pharmaceuticals and Comcast SportsNet", "Brewers switch leagues, join Reds in NL Central", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_World_Series_champions&oldid=1142715966, This page was last edited on 4 March 2023, at 00:22. The previous collective bargaining agreement expired on December 31, 1993, and baseball began the 1994 season without a new agreement. Ken Hersh . That extended Cleveland's World Series title drought to 68 years and counting the Indians last won the Series in 1948 now the longest title drought in the major leagues.[32]. In 1961, Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, hitting No. They won the final game at Fenway Park, clinching the championship at home for the first time since 1918. Originally founded as the Philadelphia Athletics, the A's won three out of four World Series titles from 1910-1913, with the first two back-to-back. To much surprise, the Phillies reached the World Series after making the postseason for the first time since 2011 as a Wild Card team. The Red Sox and White Sox finally won again in 2004 and 2005, respectively. Numbers in parentheses in the table are World Series appearances as of the date of that World Series, and are used as follows: In the sortable table below, teams are ordered first by number of wins, then by number of appearances, and finally by year of first appearance. They were led by Hall of Fame second baseman Roberto Alomar, who hit .310 and stole 49 bases, and the power-hitting tandem of Joe Carter and Dave Winfield, who belted 60 homers between them and drove in a combined 227 runs. 1949-53 Yankees (five straight World Series wins)1949: Yankees defeat Dodgers, 4-11950: Yankees defeat Phillies, 4-01951: Yankees defeat Giants, 4-21952: Yankees defeat Dodgers, 4-31953: Yankees defeat Dodgers, 4-2. There was simply no stopping these Yankees. The 1988 World Series is remembered for the iconic home run by the Los Angeles Dodgers' Kirk Gibson with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 1. [39][48][49] 1955 marked the first time that the World Series was televised in color.[50][51]. The two division winners within each league played each other in a best-of-five League Championship Series to determine who would advance to the World Series. The first of those years was also Hall of Famer Tris Speaker's final season with the Red Sox, before he jumped to the Indians. The Cincinnati Reds swept the 1976 Series in four games, using the same nine-man lineup in each contest. In 2010 and 2011, he led the Rangers to back-to-back World Series appearances their only two American League pennants. The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only. . Seriously, everyone in that lineup could hit. On NBC, as Gibson limped around the bases, Scully famously exclaimed, "The impossible has happened!" It was the first seven-game World Series in which the road team won every game. In the "Season(s)" column, bold years indicate winning appearances. Arizona has made five more postseason appearances since then, but they haven't been back to the World Series. Afterward, World Series games were frequently scheduled at night, when television audiences were larger. [citation needed]. 1907-08 Cubs1907: Cubs defeat Tigers, 4-0-11908: Cubs defeat Tigers, 4-1. The Bambino had an incredible 1.215 OPS across the two seasons. [6] Players, coaches and others associated with the team are generally given World Series rings to commemorate their victory; however, they have received other items such as pocket watches and medallions in the past. This was the only World Series to be produced under the "Baseball Network" umbrella (a revenue sharing joint venture between Major League Baseball, ABC, and NBC). Over the past 365 days, the Philadelphia Phillies signed Kyle Schwarber and Nick Castellanos and replaced manager Joe Girardi with Rob Thomson. Reaching North America's high-salary major leagues is the goal of many of the best players around the world, which gives a strong international flavor to the Series. And in 2000, the Yankees won the Subway Series World Series over the Mets in five games, the first all-New York Fall Classic since the last bout of the Yankees-Brooklyn Dodgers rivalry in 1956. Rooftop view of a 1903 World Series game in Boston, Game action in the 1906 Series in Chicago (the only all-Chicago World Series to date), Bill Wambsganss completes his unassisted triple play in 1920, Washington's Bucky Harris scores his home run in the fourth inning of Game 7 (October 10, 1924). The Boston Red Sox won the 2018 World Series, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games for their fourth title since 2004. Which players are most pivotal for them to extend their success into 2023? The World Series has been contested 118 times as of 2022, with the AL winning 67 and the NL winning 51. In 2010 and 2011, he led the Rangers to back-to-back World Series appearances their only two American League pennants. The game is best remembered for its exciting lead changes, nail-biting turns of events, and a game-winning walk-off home run by Carlton Fisk, resulting in a 76 Red Sox victory. Many talented players from Latin America, the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim, and elsewhere now play in the majors. The 1993 team then repeated behind the "WHAMCO" lineup -- Devon White, Rickey Henderson, Alomar, Paul Molitor, Carter and John Olerud. Joe Morgan was the NL MVP in both of these seasons; Pete Rose was the World Series MVP one year, Johnny Bench the next. 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). The World Baseball Classic, sponsored by Major League Baseball and sanctioned by the sport's world governing body, the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), uses a format similar to the FIFA World Cup to promote competition between nations every four years. Starting in 1976, the World Series allowed for the use of a DH in even-numbered years only. After a month passed with no progress in the labor talks, Selig canceled the rest of the 1994 season and the postseason on September 14. The games were open to all channels with a network affiliation. As part of a multiyear partnership that began in 2017, the Internet television service YouTube TV became the presenting sponsor of the World Series. Until the formation of the American Association in 1882 as a second major league, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (18711875) and then the National League (founded 1876) represented the top level of organized baseball in the United States. - The No. Be warned: with the obvious joy, there was plenty of heartache. [33] If both league champions have the same record, the tie-breaker is a head-to-head record, and if that does not resolve it, the second tie-breaker is the best divisional record. The Cincinnati Reds won in 1975 and 1976 in a successful decade for them. In addition to political reasons, Brush also factually cited the lack of rules under which money would be split, where games would be played, and how they would be operated and staffed. Gambling and game-fixing had been a problem in professional baseball from the beginning; star pitcher Jim Devlin was banned for life in 1877 when the National League was just two years old. The last World Series played outdoors during the day was the final game of the 1984 series in Detroit's Tiger Stadium. It's been 19 years since their last pennant, a drought that's notable but was just the majors'. The Caribbean Series features competition among the league champions from Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Venezuela but unlike the FIFA Club World Cup, there is no club competition that features champions from all professional leagues across the world. Fans filing into the stadium saw Candlestick sway visibly during the quake. Game5 would be the last Major League Baseball game to be telecast by ABC (had there been a Game7, ABC would've televised it) until the 2020 American League Wild Card Series game between Houston and Minnesota. Both the 1885 and 1890 Series ended in ties, each team having won three games with one tie game. Their starting rotation was fine, but they certainly didn't have . When the first modern World Series was played in 1903, there were eight teams in each league. The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason. A part of the modus operandi of the Royals teams that made back-to-back World Series appearances was a nearly-bulletproof bullpen. They had a Hall of Fame trio anchoring the lineup -- Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Mickey Cochrane -- and another atop the rotation in Lefty Grove. Of the 26 Series in which at least one expansion team has played, including two Series (2015 and 2019) in which both teams were expansion teams, expansion teams have won 11 of them, which is 42.3% of all series in which an expansion team played and 9.4% of all 117 series played since 1903. For more information, please read our Legal Disclaimer. Cash helped flip Tampa Bay's fortunes with back-to-back seasons of 90 wins or more. Prior to 1969, the National League and the American League each crowned its champion (the "pennant winner") based on the best winloss record at the end of the regular season. One of them, a best-of nine affair matching that year's pennant winners the Pittsburgh Pirates of the NL and Boston Americans (later known as the Red Sox) of the AL has come to be regarded as the 1903 World Series. Phillies World Series appearances The Phillies have made seven World Series appearances, and have a record of 2-5 in those appearances. The 2000 New York Yankees faced the Mets in the first World Series played entirely in New York since 1956. However, the Yankees would be trailing late in Game 4 which was good news, but in the eighth inning, Jim Leyritz did this to force extra innings where the Braves would ultimately lose. The Boston Red Sox broke their 86-year drought, known as the Curse of the Bambino, defeating the Yankees in the 2004 ALCS after losing the first three games, and then defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2004 World Series. The Yankees have also been the American League's representative in the World Series the most times, with 40 total appearances. Baseball's gambling problems came to a head in 1919, when eight players of the Chicago White Sox were alleged to have conspired to throw the 1919 World Series. In 2012, the Wild Card game was added. The 1962 Giants made the first California World Series appearance of that franchise, losing to the Yankees. The best-of-seven style has been the format of all World Series except in 1903, 1919, 1920, and 1921, when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff. The Seattle Mariners are the only current MLB franchise that has never appeared in a World Series; the San Diego Padres, Colorado Rockies, Texas Rangers, Tampa Bay Rays, and Milwaukee Brewers have all played in the Series but have never won it. The 1991 World Series saw the Minnesota Twins defeating the Atlanta Braves four games to three to win the championship. Game 3 was finally played on October 27, and Oakland won that day and the next to complete a four-game sweep. Beginning in 2017, home-field advantage in the World Series was awarded to the league champion team with the better regular-season winloss record. In 1947, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, and 1956, both teams in the World Series were from New York, with the Yankees playing against either the Dodgers or Giants. One year can make a world of difference. The Oakland A's come second on the list with the most back-to-back championship rings. The 29-year-old became the club's second active player to earn a $300 million deal,. * 21+ (19+ CA-ONT) (18+ NH/WY). In 2010 and 2011, he led the Rangers to back-to-back World Series appearances -- their only two American League pennants. The list of postseason rules evolved over time. To say that it has been a long time between World Series appearances for the Atlanta Braves professional baseball club is a bit of an understatement. A daily roundup of Atlanta Braves news from Battery Power, By submitting your email, you agree to our, Looking back at the Braves 1990s World Series appearances, Braves watch big lead slip away in loss to Astros. The American League had won every All-Star Game since this change until 2010 and thus enjoyed home-field advantage from 2002, when it also had home-field advantage based on the alternating schedule, through 2009. This is the longest streak of success in the MLB. With Babe Ruth having played his final Yankees season in 1934, it was Lou Gehrig who led the Yankees to their 1936 title, the franchise's first without the Babe. Gibson's home run set the tone for the series, as the Dodgers went on to beat the A's 4 games to 1. Wilson: A seven-year run with the Rangers culminated in back-to-back World Series appearances for Wilson. World Series games were contested outside of the United States for the first time in 1992, with the Toronto Blue Jays defeating the Atlanta Braves in six games. [12], Following the collapse of the American Association after the 1891 season, the National League was again the only major league. Despite such a high frequency of postseason appearances, the Diamondbacks have an overall losing record (1,840-1,946) as of 2021. ESPN selected it as the "Greatest of All Time" in their "World Series 100th Anniversary" countdown, with five of its games being decided by a single run, four games decided in the final at-bat and three games going into extra innings. Meet the Dallas 500: Kenneth Hersh. Now in his fifth season on manager Brian Snitker's staff in Atlanta . ", Sutherland, Norman. American League (AL) teams have won 67 of the 118 World Series played (56.8%). Ironically, the iconic moment it produced was Carlton Fisk waving his 12th-inning walk-off home run fair in Game 6 at Fenway Park. The current Japanese leagues date from the late 1940s (after World War II). 1910-11 A's1910: A's defeat Cubs, 4-11911: A's defeat Giants, 4-2. [24] The season started on April 25 and the 1995 World Series was played as scheduled, with the Atlanta Braves beating Cleveland Indians four games to two. [56], Despite its name, the World Series remains solely the championship of the Major League Baseball teams in the United States and Canada, although MLB, its players, and North American media sometimes informally refer to World Series winners as "world champions of baseball".[57]. The A's would repeat their wins in 1929 and 1930, defeating the Cubs and the Cardinals. [citation needed]. 1961-62 Yankees1961: Yankees defeat Reds, 4-11962: Yankees defeat Giants, 4-3. The current (2022) World Series champions are the Houston Astros. The 1987 Minnesota Twins became the first team in the history of the World Series to win the championship by winning all 4 games they hosted when they defeated the St. Louis Cardinals. And with the Braves falling in the 2022 NL Division Series, nobody has done so in 22 consecutive seasons. After two years of bitter competition and player raiding, the National and American Leagues made peace and, as part of the accord, several pairs of teams squared off for interleague exhibition games following the 1903 season. Perhaps Elvis Andrus, who has played 11 seasons with the club and was a key member on the team that made back-to-back World Series appearances in 2010-11. Shortstop Derek Jeter won the World Series' Most Valuable Player award after winning the Most Valuable Player award in the All-Star Game in the same year. The Braves will make their first World Series of the 2000's, so lets take a quick look back at their appearances from the 1990's. To say that it has been a long time between World Series appearances for the Atlanta Braves professional baseball club is a bit of an understatement. The series-deciding seventh game was a scoreless tie (00) through the regular nine innings, and went into extra innings; Minnesota won by a score of 10 in the 10th inning, after their starting pitcher, Jack Morris, pitched a complete 10 inning shutout 7th game. With the Giants down 1-0 in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 at Candlestick Park, runners on second and third and two outs, Willie McCovey ripped a line drive that was caught by Yankees second baseman Bobby Richardson to end the series. The Sox had won the Series in 1917 and were heavy favorites to beat the Cincinnati Reds in 1919, but first baseman Chick Gandil had other plans. After the boycott of 1904, the World Series was played every year until 1994 despite World War I, the global influenza pandemic of 19181919, the Great Depression of the 1930s, America's involvement in World War II, and even an earthquake in the host cities of the 1989 World Series. Baseball's top relief pitcher, Dennis Eckersley, closed out all four games in the ALCS, and he appeared ready to do the same in Game 1 against a Dodgers team trailing 43 in the ninth. AZ, CO, CT, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, (select parishes), MD, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, VA, WV, WY, CA-ONT only.Eligibility restrictions apply. Behind the Core Four -- Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera -- the Bronx Bombers won a franchise-record (and then-AL-record) 114 games, then went 11-2 in the postseason and swept the Padres in the World Series. Boston Red Sox managed it in 1915 and 1916, the first of Babe Ruth's career before he was sent away to the Yankees. The San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers in that year's World Series. 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. The Phillies have committed significant money to their core batters and ace Zack Wheeler. With the 2006 World Series victory by the Cardinals, Tony La Russa became the second manager to win a World Series in both the American and National Leagues. The Yankees defeated the Mets four games to one to win their 26th World Series Championship. Be the first one to comment on this story. In 2021, they lost to the Atlanta Braves in six games, with Jorge Soler winning MVP Honors. All advice, including picks and predictions, is based on individual commentators opinions and not that of Minute Media or its related brands. They repeated their success as early as 1927-28 and as recently as the three-peat-winning dynasty of 1998-2000. They are also the latest to win back-to-back World Series titles. No championship series were played in 1901 or 1902 as the National and American Leagues fought each other for business supremacy (in 1902, the top teams instead opted to compete in a football championship). The club added Darvish and top prospect Profar for 2012. In July 1995, both networks announced that they would be pulling out of what was supposed to be a six-year-long venture. The 1976 World Series was a sweep, with the Reds breezing past the Yankees before New York's own repeat that started the next year. The Braves combined to score nine runs over the four game sweep and five of those runs came in Game 3 which ended with a walk-off homer off the bat of Chad Curtis (his second of the game). [6], The 19th-century competitions are, however, not officially recognized as part of World Series history by Major League Baseball, as it considers 19th-century baseball to be a prologue to the modern baseball era. It found the Boston Red Sox winning in the 12th inning in Fenway Park, defeating the Cincinnati Reds to force a seventh and deciding game. The Braves will make their first World Series of the 2000s, so lets take a quick look back at their appearances from the 1990s. More to the point, in some cities, the World Series was broadcast on three stations at once. The Yankees had their best seasons in the MLB in 1927 and 1928, led by two legendary players, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. The series started off well enough as the Braves won the first two games including a multi-homer game from a young Andruw Jones and an absolute gem pitched by Greg Maddux in Game 2. The Los Angeles Angels, Arizona Diamondbacks and Washington Nationals are the only teams who have won their only World Series appearance, and the Toronto Blue Jays and the Miami Marlins have won both of their World Series appearances. Its easy to forget that the Blue Jays won back to back titles in the early 1990s, but it absolutely happened and this was the first of the two. Prior to 2003, home-field advantage in the World Series alternated from year to year between the NL and AL. 1998-2000 Yankees (three straight World Series wins)1998: Yankees defeat Padres, 4-01999: Yankees defeat Braves, 4-02000: Yankees defeat Mets, 4-1. Both teams that beat them the Houston Astros in 2017 and . Ah, memories. The most recent Yankees dynasty featured a three-peat that started with the 1998 Yankees, one of the greatest teams of all time. With the new rules in place and the National Commission in control, McGraw's Giants made it to the 1905 Series and beat the Philadelphia Athletics four games to one. Until 2002, home-field advantage in the World Series alternated from year to year between the AL and NL. The A's barely edged the Reds in 1972, staving off Cincinnati's comeback from down 3-1 in the series thanks to Catfish Hunter and Rollie Fingers' shutdown relief efforts in the deciding Game 7. The Rangers made back-to-back World Series appearances in 2010 and 2011, which stand as the only two trips to the Fall Classic in franchise history. 1972-74 A's (three straight World Series wins)1972: A's defeat Reds, 4-31973: A's defeat Mets, 4-31974: A's defeat Dodgers, 4-1. They have only appeared in the World Series twice since then, in 2017 and 2018. The winner of the World Series championship is determined through a best-of-seven playoff, and the winning team is awarded the Commissioner's Trophy.[1]. Your login session has expired. [54][55], Also in 2022, credit card provider Capital One become the presenting sponsor of the World Series as part of the new multi-year agreement. The club also got younger by giving significant roles to pre-arbitration players Brandon Marsh and Bryson Stott. The Series turned out to indeed have serious consequences for the sport. The first Series to end with a homer was the 1960 World Series, when Bill Mazeroski hit a ninth-inning solo shot in Game 7 to win the championship for the Pittsburgh Pirates over the New York Yankees. Those wins over the Cubs and Cardinals marked their final titles under the legendary Connie Mack. The Houston Astros received home-field advantage in both the 2021 World Series and the 2022 World Series. In 1901, the American League was formed as a second major league. Starting in 2017, home-field advantage was awarded to the league champion team with the better regular-season winloss record. [17], Boston upset Pittsburgh by five games to three, winning with pitching depth behind Cy Young and Bill Dinneen and with the support of the band of Royal Rooters. The Yankees and the Dodgers have faced off against each other the most times, with eleven total contests between the two franchises. The Dodgers' 14 World Series losses are the most by any team, while the Yankees' 13 losses are the most among AL teams. They have wins in 1980 and 2008 (Rays), and. Thus the Giants' owner John T. Brush refused to allow his team to participate in such an event, citing the "inferiority" of the upstart American League. The league championship was awarded in 1892 by a playoff between split season champions. The events of the 1919 Series, segueing into the "live ball" era, marked a point in time of change of the fortunes of several teams. In 1985, the format changed to best-of-seven. Gandil, in collaboration with gambler Joseph "Sport" Sullivan, approached his teammates and got six of them to agree to throw the Series: starting pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams, shortstop Swede Risberg, left fielder Shoeless Joe Jackson, center fielder Happy Felsch, and utility infielder Fred McMullin. They rolled to back-to-back titles over the Carl Hubbell and Mel Ott-led Giants in 1936 and '37, then swept the Cubs in 1938 and the Reds in '39. This article is about winners of the World Series of Major League Baseball that began in 1903. With this run, the A's also became the only other Major League franchise besides the Yankees to win at least three straight World Series titles. The Cincinnati Reds won in 1975 and 1976 in a successful decade for them. This is the only time in World Series history in which three teams have won consecutive series in succession. In 2020, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in six games to win their first World Series since 1988, and their seventh championship in franchise history, during a season that was shortened to 60 games by the COVID-19 pandemic. In short, the Yankees absolutely dominated Atlanta and thus began a World Series drought that VERY fortunately ended this season.
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