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The Astros won Game 5, returning the series to Houston. The Braves won Game 6 to win the World Series. Jorge Soler was awarded the World Series Most Valuable Player Award after batting.300 in the series with home runs in three of the Braves victories, each time giving them a lead they would never surrender.
In both instances, the winner was the eventual World Series champion. The Astros defeated the Red Sox in six games to advance to the World Series for the third time in five years. Both teams split the first two games in Houston. When the series shifted to Boston, the Red Sox blew out the Astros by a 12–3 score to go up 2–1 in the series.
The winning team is traditionally invited to the White House to meet the President of the United States . A total of 119 World Series have been contested through 2023, with the AL champion winning 68 and the NL champion winning 51. The New York Yankees of the AL have played in 40 World Series, winning 27 – the most championship appearances ...
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It has traditionally been held in October, though some more recent editions were contested in November due to expanded playoffs and/or season delays. It has been contested since 1903 between the champion teams of the American ...
Major League Baseball is the oldest of North America's major professional sports organizations, with roots dating back to the 1870s. The final series to determine its champion has been called the "World Series" (originally "World's Championship Series" and then "World's Series") as far back as the National League's contests with the American Association starting at the beginning of the 1880s.
Each possibility is at +200, while a five-game series is at +275. A sweep by either team has odds of +550. Both teams enter the World Series with two very good starting pitchers and question marks ...
What a difference a day makes. One day after Texas pulled off one of the most dramatic games in World Series history in a 6-5 win in Game 1, Arizona dominated Game 2 with a 16-hit attack in a ...
Despite this, the Marlins won the World Series during their first two playoff runs in 1997 and 2003. Only three players were on both World Series teams with the Marlins: Jeff Conine, Luis Castillo, and Rick Helling (both Conine and Castillo are the only Marlins to play a thousand games with the team). [9]