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Since 1903, the best of a 7-game playoff series between the winners of the American and National Leagues in baseball -- beginning today -- the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. the Houston Astros. Once called America's favorite pasttime, sports fans will argue that American football is more popular though motor racing now draws the most people every year.
The odd presentation of the World Series ring is because it was on a mannequin's hand in the Levi's Jeans store at Levi's headquarters in San Francisco
I really never thought I would see the day that the Wrigley field marquee read "World Series Champions". Yet here we are, and it all still feels surreal. Perhaps the most amazing part about it is how easy it felt. A change of ownership, and a willingness to pay for the top players. Bringing in the brightest young mind in baseball in Theo Epstein, and of course the best manager in baseball in Joe Maddon. We built around young talent, and made a few big name veteran acquisitions in free agency. We were so bad, cursed even, for so long and it all changed like that. What a cool thing to be a part of, but it still doesn't feel real.
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Set description: The sights above, and around Chicago during the Chicago Cubs' World Series Celebration weekend
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Watching, on television, as the 113th World Series began.
24 October 2017
8:08 pm ET
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"With Clayton Kershaw pitching brilliantly over seven overpowering innings and third baseman Justin Turner delivering the go-ahead runs with a two-run homer in the sixth, the [Los Angeles] Dodgers beat the [Houston] Astros, 3-1, in the hottest World Series game in history [103 °F in L.A. at game time]. Kershaw struck out 11 Tuesday night — the most by a Dodgers pitcher in a World Series game since Don Drysdale also struck out 11 in Game 4 in 1965 — to overpower a Houston offense that ranked first in the majors this season in runs, batting average, on-base percentage and slugging, while striking out at the lowest rate."
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"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. [Prior to 1969, the team with the best regular season win-loss record in each league automatically advanced to the World Series; since then each league has conducted a championship series (ALCS and NLCS) preceding the World Series to determine which teams will advance.] 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. As the series is played in October (and occasionally November), during the fall season in North America, it is sometimes referred to as the Fall Classic."
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▶ For the Houston Astros of the American League, this is their second time in the World Series. In their first appearance, in 2005, they played (and lost) as a National League team. (The team was established in 1962, in the National League, as the Houston Colt .45s and were renamed the Houston Astros three years later.)
▶ For the L.A. Dodgers, this is their first time back to the World Series since 1988, when they also won. The team (née Brooklyn Dodgers) has played in 19 World Series (including this year) and won 6 (not counting this year).
▶ The only two teams not to have been to the World Series are the Seattle Mariners and the Washington Nationals (née Montrela Expos).
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▶ UPDATE
1 November 2017.
The Astros defeated the Dodgers, four games to three, to win their first World Series in franchise history. Both teams set a World Series record with a combined total of 25 home runs throughout the entire series, and hit a combined total of eight home runs in Game 2 to set the single game World Series mark. This was the first World Series in which home-field advantage was decided by regular season record. Houston outfielder George Springer was named the World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) after hitting five home runs in the series to tie a World Series record.
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This unusual late Jurasic period (post season) dinosaur was just recently discovered in the Louisville, KY area. There is some evidence to suggest it would use it's unusually shaped heads to beat up on small leathery mammals just for fun. It's diet consisted almost entirely of leaves that may have been an early form of tobacco.