The 2018 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball’s 2018 season. It was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League champion Boston Red Sox and the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers. The Red Sox defeated the Dodgers in five games to win their fourth World Series title in 15 years dating back to 2004. This was the second World Series matchup between the two franchises, after the Red Sox beat the Brooklyn Robins in five series in 1916.
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The 2018 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball’s 2018 season. It was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League champion Boston Red Sox and the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers. The Red Sox defeated the Dodgers in five games to win their fourth World Series title in 15 years dating back to 2004, and their ninth in franchise history. This was the second World Series matchup between the two franchises, after the Red Sox beat the Brooklyn Robins in five series in 1916. The Series was televised in the United States on Fox. Steve Pearce won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award, while Alex Cora became the fifth first-season manager and first manager from Puerto Rico to win the World series. The series was sponsored by the Internet television service YouTube TV and officially known as the 2018 World series presented by YouTube TV. The 2018 Series was notable for its third game which lasted 18 innings, a World Series record. It also was the first World Series with two managers of color; additionally, both managers were born outside the contiguous United States, as Cora was born in Puerto Rico and Roberts in Japan. The Dodgers made the playoffs for the sixth straight year by winning the division in a one-game tiebreaker over the Rockies. Despite a 16–26 start to the season and nine losses in an 11-game stretch in mid-August, the Dodgers acquired former World Series MVP David Freese from the Twins for the second year in a row.
With a 92–71 record, the team broke their record for most team home runs in a playoffs as the team entered the playoffs as a second seed and went on to beat the Atlanta Braves in four games in the 2018 National Championship Series. The Sox surpassed the 100-win mark for the first time since 1946, broke the franchise record of 105 wins that had been set in 1912, and won the most games of any MLB team since the 2001 Seattle Mariners won 116. They also became the first team to win two World Series exactly one century apart, as they had defeated the Chicago Cubs in 1918, while the Dodgers were first team since 2011 Texas Rangers, and the first NL team since 1992 Atlanta Braves, to lose consecutive Fall Classics. Including their 2004 win that ended the Curse of the Bambino, including their 2013 win over the St. Louis Cardinals, this was theFourth World Series appearance by the Red Red Sox in 15 year and their 13th appearance all-time. The LA Dodgers made their second consecutive appearance, after losing to the Houston Astros in 2017. They were the fifth back-to-back team to make their World Series by winning their tie-breaker game since the 2007 Colorado Rockies, who lost to Boston in that World Series and lost to the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games in that Series. They are the first Dodgers team to go back to back on the road since the 2006 Cardinals, becoming the first National League team in either League to win Game 7 of a Championship Series on the Road.
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