It's no wonder these A's won back-to-back championships. But Rangers fans aren't bitter about Wash joining a . Now in his fifth season on manager Brian Snitker's staff in Atlanta . The Yankees have won three World Series in a row (1998-2000). "Unhappy Start for Yankees. [7] Until about 1960, some sources treated the 19th-century Series on an equal basis with the post-19th-century series. Originally implemented as a two-year trial from 2003 to 2004, the practice was extended. 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. 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 Toronto Blue Jays would win back-to-back titles in 1992 and 1993 in their only two appearances in the World Series. The A's beat the Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown-led Cubs in five games in 1910 (marking the second year of the Cubs' century-plus-long title drought) and the Christy Mathewson-led Giants in six games in '11. We know what to expect from Harper, Turner, and Realmuto. After the 2002 Major League Baseball All-Star Game ended in a tie, MLB decided to award home-field advantage in the World Series to the winner of the All-Star Game. The Dallas investor talks about going back in time to change one moment (hint: the 2011 World Series), living in the age of discovery, and much more. This is the only time in World Series history in which three teams have won consecutive series in succession. Against Pittsburgh, Ruth hit .400 with a pair of homers and a 1.271 OPS, while Gehrig hit .308 with a 1.207 OPS. 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. [citation needed]. It's been 19 years since their last pennant, a drought that's notable but was just the majors'. Joe Morgan was the NL MVP in both of these seasons; Pete Rose was the World Series MVP one year, Johnny Bench the next. They are also the latest to win back-to-back World Series titles. There, Bill Carrigan's team was just too much to handle and they lost in 5 games. 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). It's not a game if pitchers throw one inning. The following are the 20 matchups of teams that have occurred two or more times in the World Series. The A's 1929-30 World Series titles were their last under Connie Mack; their back-to-back titles in 1910-11, nearly two full decades earlier, were their first under Mack. 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. At the time, it was the longest postseason drought in baseball. These 16 franchises, all of which are still in existence, have each won at least two World Series titles. [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. Braves fans probably remember David Justices homer in Game 6 that proved to be the games only run and Marquis Grissom catching the final out, but Tom Glavine was nails in both of his starts on his way to series MVP, Fred McGriff and Ryan Klesko both had multiple key homers earlier in the series, John Smoltz made basically the only bad World Series start of his career in what turned out to be an extra innings loss, and the Braves pitching staff somehow held that vaunted Cleveland offense to a sub-.200 batting average in the series. The remaining two division winners are pitted against each other. The severity of Gibson's injury prevented him from playing in any of the remaining games. Game 6 of the 1987 World Series was the last World Series game played in the daytime,[20] indoors at the Metrodome in Minnesota. When the first modern World Series was played in 1903, there were eight teams in each league. 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. 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. In the fifth and final game of the 1949 World Series, a Series game was finished under the lights for the first time due to encroaching darkness in the ninth inning. 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. The St. Louis Cardinals have won 11 World Series, second-most among all 30 teams and most among National League franchises, accounting for 9.4% of all series played and 21.6% of the 51 National League victories. For four seasons, 18941897, the league champions played the runners-up in the postseason championship series called the Temple Cup. This presented a problem for the World Series, whose two contestants would now be playing their regular-season games under different rules. 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. The Iron Horse drove in 173 runs in 1927 and 147 in '28, leading the Majors in RBIs both years. The most recent occasion on which they repeated came in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when they won four championships in five years. [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. 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. From 2003 to 2010, the AL and NL had each won the World Series four times, but none of them had gone the full seven games. From 1919 to 1921, the best-of-nine format first used in 1903 was employed. In '78, it was the AL East tiebreaker game -- the Bucky Dent Game. The St. Louis Cardinals have won 11 championships, the most championships among NL clubs and second-most all-time behind the Yankees, and have made 19 total appearances, third-most among NL clubs. The last World Series played outdoors during the day was the final game of the 1984 series in Detroit's Tiger Stadium. 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. The winners of the series in the first round advance to the best-of-seven NLCS and ALCS. [34] That title came under controversy two years later in the aftermath of Houston Astros sign stealing scandal, which implicated the team in engaging in an elaborate scheme involving the use of technology to steal the pitching signs of opposing teams during the 2017 and 2018 seasons. The San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers in that year's 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. And against St. Louis, the duo turned in maybe the most dominant World Series hitting performance of all time. In 2010 and 2011, he led the Rangers to back-to-back World Series appearances their only two American League pennants. ", "Peace & glove: Owners, players reach CBA deal", "Houston Strongest! The two most prolific World Series winners to date, the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals, did not win their first championship until the 1920s; and three of the teams that were highly successful prior to 1920 (the Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs) went the rest of the 20th century without another World Series win. The World Baseball Classic is held in March and the Premier12 is held in November, allowing both events to feature top-level players from all nations. 2.71970s 2.7.11971: World Series at night 2.7.21972-1978: Threepeat, repeats, and Fisk's home run 2.7.31976: The designated hitter comes to the World Series 2.81980s 2.8.11984: Anderson becomes first to win in both leagues 2.8.21985: Umpiring controversy 2.8.31987: Twins First World Series champion to win every home game They have several players with contracts worth at least $100 million, including Harper, Turner, Wheeler, Castellanos, and catcher J.T. The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only. The Series turned out to indeed have serious consequences for the sport. 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. The Dodgers were huge underdogs against the 104-win Oakland Athletics, who had swept the Boston Red Sox in the ALCS. Philadelphia had its own Hall of Fame ace in Chief Bender, who went 23-5 with a 1.58 ERA in 1910 and 17-5 with a 2.16 ERA in '11. These four seasons, 1936-39, were also the first four of DiMaggio's career. 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? 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. Joltin' Joe won the final three rings of his career from 1949-51, while a young Mantle got his first three from 1951-53. 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). The Cincinnati Reds won in 1975 and 1976 in a successful decade for them. All teams that have participated in these were "Classic Eight" members of either the American or National League; no expansion team (created in 1961 or later) has faced the same opponent more than once in a World Series. Reaching the World Series is quite a big feat, but there have been a few who have gone on to repeat their success. Dan Driessen was the Reds' DH during the series, thereby becoming the National League's first designated hitter. The 1904 Series, if it had been held, would have been between the AL's Boston Americans (Boston Red Sox) and the NL's New York Giants (now the San Francisco Giants). From 1949 to 1953, the Yankees won the World Series five years in a row; from 1936 to 1939 the Yankees won four World Series Championships in a row. The labor dispute lasted into the spring of 1995, with owners beginning spring training with replacement players. 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. The San Francisco Giants won the World Series in 2010, 2012, and 2014 while failing to qualify to play in the postseason in the intervening seasons. [1][2] Although the large majority of contests have been played entirely during the month of October, a small number of Series have also had games played during September and November. The Sox, who were promised $100,000 for cooperating, proceeded to lose the best-of-nine Series in eight games, pitching poorly, hitting poorly and making many errors. You have to go back to 1999 to find their last appearance in the Fall Classic and for those of you old enough to remember, wellthe memories from that series are not fond ones. The current (2022) World Series champions are the Houston Astros. In 1915, Ruth went 18-8 with a 2.44 ERA as a pitcher, and he went 23-12 with an American League-leading 1.75 ERA and nine shutouts in '16. Foxx hit .344 with 70 homers and 274 RBIs from 1929-30; Simmons hit .373 with 70 homers and 322 RBIs. 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. In 1901, the American League was formed as a second major league. Kansas City later won Game Seven 110 to take the series. Cochrane batted .344 between the two seasons.