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World Series. 1945 →. The 1944 World Series was an all- St. Louis World Series, matching the St. Louis Cardinals and St. Louis Browns at Sportsman's Park. It marked the third time in World Series history in which both teams had the same home field (the others being the 1921 and 1922 Series, both played at the Polo Grounds in New York City ).
Team Canada won game seven by a 4–3 score to even the series 3-3-1. In the first period, Phil Esposito scored two goals while Yakushev and Petrov tallied for the USSR, ending the first period tied 2–2. The second period was scoreless. In the third, Gilbert put Canada ahead, but Yakushev scored again to tie the score 3-3.
Syl Apps of the Toronto Maple Leafs after his team won Game 7 of the 1942 Stanley Cup Finals, overcoming a 3–0 series deficit. The following is the list of teams that have overcome 3–0 series deficits in a best-of-seven playoff series, otherwise known as a reverse sweep. The listed teams won four consecutive games after losing the first three.
The first scheduled night World Series game was Game 4 of the 1971 World Series at Three Rivers Stadium. [23] Afterward, World Series games were frequently scheduled at night, when television audiences were larger. Game 6 of the 1987 World Series was the last World Series game played in the daytime, [24] indoors at the Metrodome in Minnesota.
The Red Sox, who had won the American League but lost the Series in 1946, 1967, 1975, and 1986, finally won the World Series in 2004 and then won again in 2007, 2013 and 2018. When the Red Sox won in 2018 (against the Los Angeles Dodgers), they became the first team to win the Fall Classic exactly one century apart.
The 1946 World Series was played in October 1946 between the St. Louis Cardinals (representing the National League) and the Boston Red Sox (representing the American League ). This was the Red Sox's first appearance in a World Series since their championship of 1918 . In the eighth inning of Game 7, with the score 3–3, the Cardinals' Enos ...
In both the 1955 and 1956 World Series, the home team won the first six games of the World Series, but lost Game 7. It would not be until 1987 when the home team won all seven games of a World Series. [13] However, the Yankees became the first American League team to lose a World Series in which the home team won all seven games, in 2001. [13] [14]
The 1940 World Series matched the Cincinnati Reds against the Detroit Tigers, with the Reds winning a closely contested seven-game series. The victory secured the Reds the second championship in their franchise history and came 21 years after their victory over the scandal -tainted Chicago White Sox in 1919. This would be the Reds' last World ...