* 21+ (19+ CA-ONT) (18+ NH/WY). A total of 118 World Series have been contested through 2022, with the AL champion winning 67 and the NL champion winning 51. 1977-78 Yankees1977: Yankees defeat Dodgers, 4-21978: Yankees defeat Dodgers, 4-2. and on radio, Buck equally famously exclaimed, "I don't believe what I just saw!" Please enter a valid email and try again. A part of the modus operandi of the Royals teams that made back-to-back World Series appearances was a nearly-bulletproof bullpen. Reaching the World Series is quite a big feat, but there have been a few who have gone on to repeat their success. Brown threw a shutout in the clinching Game 5 of the 1907 World Series, and another in Game 4 of the '08 Fall Classic. [21] In the process, Tigers skipper Sparky Anderson became the first manager to win a World Series title in both leagues, having previously won in 1975 and 1976 with the Cincinnati Reds. However, in seven of the last nine seasons, home-field advantage did not decide World Series games: Between 2014 and 2022, the home team did not win the deciding game of a World Series on their own home field, although the 2020 edition, played on a neutral site due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was won by the designated home team (in this case the team that batted second), the Los Angeles Dodgers, so technically speaking it was the first Series won by the home team since 2013. It's not a game if pitchers throw one inning. [citation needed]. It's no surprise that the New York Yankees, who have won 27 World Series, are on the list of back-to-back championship teams. Astros rule the World", "Team of this century? 1910-11 A's1910: A's defeat Cubs, 4-11911: A's defeat Giants, 4-2. Both teams that beat them the Houston Astros in 2017 and . And now we finally arrive at the Braves last World Series appearance before this year andwell.it did not go well. Afterward, World Series games were frequently scheduled at night, when television audiences were larger. Grove led the Majors in ERA and strikeouts both years, and won pitching's Triple Crown in 1930, going 28-5 with a 2.54 ERA and 209 strikeouts. We know what to expect from Harper, Turner, and Realmuto. 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). At the time of the announcement, their new cross-town rivals, the New York Highlanders (now the New York Yankees), were leading the AL, and the prospect of facing the Highlanders did not please Giants management. 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). 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. The Yankees have won three World Series in a row (1998-2000). John McGraw, the Giants' manager, even went so far as to say that his Giants were already "world champions" since they were the champions of the "only real major league". Be the first one to comment on this story. The Houston Astros do not need to. Oops. In 1977, it was Game 6 of the Fall Classic -- the game Reggie Jackson became Mr. October. Winning one World Series is hard enough, but there have only been 14 teams to win at least two in a row. Various Latin American leagues also formed around that time. 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 Yankees and Red Sox had finished the regular season tied for first place, forcing a one-game playoff at Fenway Park. In July 1995, both networks announced that they would be pulling out of what was supposed to be a six-year-long venture. The Yankees had their best seasons in the MLB in 1927 and 1928, led by two legendary players, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. The Montreal Expos, now the Washington Nationals, were the best team in baseball at the time of the stoppage, with a record of 7440. Yet, despite not being able to walk without a noticeable limp, Gibson surprised all in attendance at Dodger Stadium (and all watching on TV) by pinch-hitting. These 16 franchises, all of which are still in existence, have each won at least two World Series titles. A structured playoff series began in 1969 when both the National and American Leagues were reorganized into two divisions each, East and West. The next year, Oakland beat the Mets; Reggie Jackson, though he wasn't Mr. October quite yet, did win World Series MVP (and was the regular-season AL MVP, too). Which players are most pivotal for them to extend their success into 2023? 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. Dave Dombrowski doubled down signing superstar shortstop Trea Turner to an 11-year, $300 million contract. It was the first seven-game World Series in which the road team won every game. Here is a look back at the illustrious club of repeat champions, beginning with the most recent. 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 Big Red Machine reached its pinnacle with back-to-back World Series titles in 1975 and '76. The United States, Canada, and Mexico (Liga Mxicana de Bisbol, established 1925) were the only professional baseball countries until a few decades into the 20th century. [9] This is the longest streak of success in the MLB. 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. The Cubs had to wait over a century (until the 2016 season) for their next trophy. Ken Hersh . Only three times in the divisional era has a team lost back-to-back World Series' - the 1977-78 Dodgers, the 1991-92 Atlanta Braves and the 2010-11 Texas Rangers. In 2010 and 2011, he led the Rangers to back-to-back World Series appearances their only two American League pennants. The 1970s were full of repeat champs -- the A's were the first of three different teams to win consecutive World Series. The team has not won a playoff series since. 1961-62 Yankees1961: Yankees defeat Reds, 4-11962: Yankees defeat Giants, 4-3. 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. All picks and predictions are suggestions only. 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. Game 6 of the 1987 World Series was the last World Series game played in the daytime,[20] indoors at the Metrodome in Minnesota. Only Brooklyn, in 1952, pushed the Yankees to seven games -- but the first two of Mantle's record 18 career World Series home runs made the difference in Game 6 and Game 7. [7] The winning team is traditionally invited to the White House to meet the President of the United States. Other notable World Series victories of the decade include the Arizona Diamondbacks, in only their fourth season of play, over the Yankees in 2001, The Anaheim Angels in 2002, the Chicago White Sox in 2005, and the Philadelphia Phillies in 2008. The WBSC has since added the Premier12, a tournament also involving national teams; the first event was held in 2015, and is planned to be held every four years (in the middle of the World Baseball Classic cycle). The most recent occasion on which they repeated came in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when they won four championships in five years. Beginning in 2017, home-field advantage in the World Series was awarded to the league champion team with the better regular-season winloss record. The Dodgers' 14 World Series losses are the most by any team, while the Yankees' 13 losses are the most among AL teams. The Toronto Blue Jays would win back-to-back titles in 1992 and 1993 in their only two appearances in the World Series. The Dodgers were the first of the two clubs to contest a World Series on the west coast, defeating the Chicago White Sox in 1959. The Iron Horse drove in 173 runs in 1927 and 147 in '28, leading the Majors in RBIs both years. 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. 1975-76 Reds1975: Reds defeat Red Sox, 4-31976: Reds defeat Yankees, 4-0. The Indians were a legitimately scary offensive squad with Albert Belle, Manny Ramirez, Eddie Murray, and Jim Thome in their lineup. This was to discourage teams from fixing early games in order to prolong the series and make more money. Dan Driessen was the Reds' DH during the series, thereby becoming the National League's first designated hitter. ^***:Gillette,[53] which sponsored World Series telecasts exclusively from roughly 1947 to 1965 (prior to 1966, the Series announcers were chosen by the Gillette Company along with the Commissioner of Baseball and NBC), paid for airtime on DuMont's owned-and-operated Pittsburgh affiliate, WDTV (now KDKA-TV) to air the World Series. In 2013, the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series of the 2010s by defeating the St. Louis Cardinals in six games. The league championship was awarded in 1892 by a playoff between split season champions. Something went wrong. All the games in the 1921 and '22 World Series were played at the Polo Grounds, which served as the home ballpark for both clubs at the time -- Yankee Stadium wouldn't open until 1923. The Houston Astros won the 2017 World Series in seven games against the Los Angeles Dodgers on November 1, 2017, winning their first World Series since their creation in 1962. No other Series has featured a team from outside of the United States. [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]. In 2015, the first World Series featuring only expansion teams was played between the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets. The predecessor to the WBSC as the sport's international governing body, the International Baseball Federation, also sponsored a Baseball World Cup to crown a world champion. In 2012, the Wild Card game was added. However, the Baltimore Orioles made three consecutive World Series appearances: 1969, losing to the "amazing" seven-year-old franchise New York Mets, 1970, beating the Reds in their first World Series appearance of the decade, and 1971, losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates, as well their 1979 appearance, when they again lost to the Pirates, and the Los Angeles Dodgers' back-to-back World Series appearances in 1977 and 1978, both losses to the New York Yankees, as well in 1974 losing against the cross-state rival Oakland Athletics. They have wins in 1980 and 2008 (Rays), and. The National and American Leagues operated under essentially identical rules until 1973, when the American League adopted the designated hitter (DH) rule, allowing its teams to use another hitter to bat in place of the (usually) weak-hitting pitcher. They become free agents only after nine years playing service in the Nippon Professional Baseball (Japan's premier baseball league), although their Japanese teams may at any time "post" them for bids from MLB teams, which commonly happens at the player's request. The A's also had Eddie Collins in the lineup, who had a Major League-leading 81 stolen bases in 1910, and Home Run Baker, who appropriately had an AL-leading 11 home runs in 1911. In later decades, the Yankees would have further success, winning back-to-back in 1962-63 and 1977-78. 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. On NBC, as Gibson limped around the bases, Scully famously exclaimed, "The impossible has happened!" 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. As part of a multiyear partnership that began in 2017, the Internet television service YouTube TV became the presenting sponsor of the World Series. The next year's Fall Classic was much more tightly contested, with the Giants pushing the Yankees to seven games in their first World Series appearance since moving to San Francisco. The last World Series played outdoors during the day was the final game of the 1984 series in Detroit's Tiger Stadium. Players who have not had years of continued success will need to play their best for the Phillies to return to the World Series and be favorites to win. With the Nationals' appearance in the World Series in 2019, the Seattle Mariners are left as the only active MLB franchise to never appear in the World Series. This Yankees dynasty encompassed both the twilight of the DiMaggio era and the dawn of the Mantle era. [38], When the World Series was first broadcast on television in 1947, it was only televised to a few surrounding areas via coaxial inter-connected stations: New York City (WNBT); Philadelphia (WPTZ); Schenectady/Albany, New York (WRGB); Washington, D.C. (WNBW) and surrounding suburbs/environs. The Babe helped lead Boston to consecutive 4-1 World Series wins over the Grover Cleveland Alexander-led Phillies in 1915 and the Brookyn Robins (i.e. The 2022 edition was won in 6 games by the eventual designated home team, the Houston Astros, making them the first such team since 2013 to actually win the deciding game of a World Series on their own home field, in this case Minute Maid Park. The Toronto Blue Jays are the only franchise from outside the United States to appear in and win a World Series, winning in 1992 and 1993. Phillies World Series appearances The Phillies have made seven World Series appearances, and have a record of 2-5 in those appearances. In 2021, they lost to the Atlanta Braves in six games, with Jorge Soler winning MVP Honors. Also, David Cone was the ace of the Blue Jays staff in 1993, which I had forgotten about. One year can make a world of difference. 1992-93 Blue Jays1992: Blue Jays defeat Braves, 4-21993: Blue Jays defeat Phillies, 4-2. Owners and players negotiated as the season progressed, but owners refused to give up the idea of a salary cap and players refused to accept one. These big-time contracts and being the defending National League Champions will only put a brighter spotlight on the Phillies this year. The Nationals achieved a couple of historical milestones: becoming the first team to win the World Series without winning a home game[36] and bringing the title back to the capital for the first time since 1924.[37]. After getting the first two outs, Eckersley walked Mike Davis of the Dodgers, who were playing without Gibson, their best position player and the NL MVP. However, baseball in the meantime had established the office of Commissioner in an effort to protect the game's integrity, and the first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, banned all of the players involved, including Weaver, for life. The National League Championship Series (NLCS) and American League Championship Series (ALCS), since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 232 format: Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home-field advantage, and Games 3, 4, and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not. From 1919 to 1921, the best-of-nine format first used in 1903 was employed. They defeated the New York Mets in the World Series in five games, capturing their first title in 30 years. There have been 118 World Series champions, with 14 teams having had the distinction of winning two World Series in a row. November' 20 years ago with help from iconic call", "When will we end the charade of the All-Star game deciding World Series home-field advantage? The Toronto Blue Jays would win back-to-back titles in 1992 and 1993 in their only two appearances in the World Series. Night games were played in the major leagues beginning with the Cincinnati Reds in 1935, but the World Series remained a strictly daytime event for years thereafter. They won the final game at Fenway Park, clinching the championship at home for the first time since 1918. In his book Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, Simon Winchester mentions in passing that the World Series was named for the New York World newspaper,[5] but this view is disputed. MLB is a competitive league with 30 teams that play a rigorous regular season schedule of 162 games.