The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in North America, contested since 1903 between the American League (AL) champion team and the National League (NL) champion team. 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] As the series is played throughout the fall season in North America, it’s occasionally known as the Fall Classic.Prior to 1969, the team with the greatest regular season win-loss record in each league automatically advanced to the World Series; since then each league has conducted a championship show (ALCS and NLCS) preceding the World Series to determine which teams will advance. As 2018, the World Series was contested 114 times, together with all the AL winning the NL and 66 winning 48 of.
The 2018 World Series took place involving the Los Angeles Dodgers and Boston Red Sox together with all the Red Sox winning five games to earn their title, from October 23 — 28. This was the very first World Series meeting between both of these teams as 1916. Having previously lost to the Houston Astros in the 2017 World Series, the Dodgers became the 11th team to lose the World Series in consecutive seasons. [3]
In the American League, the New York Yankees have played in 40 World Series and won 27, the Philadelphia/Kansas City/Oakland Athletics have played 14 and won 9, along with the Boston Red Sox have played 13 and won 9, including the very first World Series. In the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals have emerged in 19 and won 11, the New York/San Francisco Giants have played in 19 and won 8, the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers have emerged in 20 and won 6, and the Cincinnati Reds have appeared in 9 and won 5.
As 2018, no team has won consecutive World Series championships since the New York Yankees in 1998, 1999, and 2000 — the longest drought in Major League Baseball history of.
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