The 2008 World Series was the 104th edition of Major League Baseball’s World Series. It was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies and the American League champion Tampa Bay Rays. The Phillies won the series, four games to one, to bring the city of Philadelphia its first championship in 25 years. The series is notable because it is the only Fall Classic to involve a mid-game postponement and resumption.
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The 2008 World Series was the 104th edition of Major League Baseball’s World Series. It was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies and the American League champion Tampa Bay Rays. The Phillies won the series, four games to one, to bring the city of Philadelphia its first championship in 25 years. This was the first postseason series lost by an MLB team based in the state of Florida; previously, the Rays and Florida Marlins were 8–0 in post-season series. The series is notable because it is the only Fall Classic to involve a mid-game postponement and resumption. The Rays became the third MLB team in the post-1969 \”Divisional Era\” to make the World Series in their first trip to the playoffs, joining the 1969 New York Mets and the 1997 Florida Marlins. The Philadelphia Phillies won their second championship in their 126-year history. The team won its position in the playoffs after its second consecutive NL East division title. This is the Phillies’ first World Series appearance in fifteen years, and the Rays’ first postseason appearance in their franchise’s first year of existence. The Series began on October 22, and concluded the following Wednesday, October 29. The AL’s 4–3 win in the 2008 All-Star Game gave the Rays home field advantage for the series; no more than three games would be played at Citizens Bank Park. Philadelphia opened the season by posting a winning record in the opening month of April, and went 14–4 into the beginning of June.
Tampa Bay began the month of September with a 13–14 record in September, by winning the American League East title for the first time in franchise history. The team lost 9 of 11 games to end June, but came out of the All-Stars break with a 9–6 record following the midseason hiatus. Philadelphia traded sweeps with the Los Angeles Dodgers in August and went 13–3 in their last 16 games, to win the National League East title for the second consecutive season. The Philadelphia Phillies posted the best road record in the National League, at 44–37. The Tampa Bay Rays became the first team since 1903 to have the league’s best record on Memorial Day after finishing in last place the previous season. In the American League Championship Series, Tampa Bay defeated the Boston Red Sox in seven games, to advance to their first World Series in franchise history. The teams met in the World Classic for the first time on October 29, 2008, with the Phillies winning the series 4–1 in the final game of the Series. The game was the last World Series game to be played in which the Rays did not have a player on the rookie contest and the Phillies did not have a player on the senior all-star roster. The games were played at the Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.
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