2020 Major League Baseball season
The 2020 Major League Baseball season was a season in American baseball. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was reduced to just 60 games. At 60 games, this was the shortest regular season since 1878. An expanded 16-team postseason tournament began on September 29, with games of all but the first round being played at neutral sites. The World Series began on October 20 at Globe Life Field in Arlington, and ended on October 27, with the Los Angeles Dodgers defeating the Tampa Bay Rays in six games.
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The 2020 Major League Baseball season was a season in American baseball. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the season was reduced to just 60 games. At 60 games, this was the shortest regular season since 1878. An expanded 16-team postseason tournament began on September 29, with games of all but the first round being played at neutral sites. The World Series began on October 20 at Globe Life Field in Arlington, and ended on October 27, with the Los Angeles Dodgers defeating the Tampa Bay Rays in six games to win their first title since 1988. On July 3, the All-Star Game was canceled because of the delay to the regular season. The Canadian federal government denied permission for the Toronto Blue Jays to play their home games at Rogers Centre this season on grounds that repeated cross-border trips by both the Blue Jays and their opponents would be a major risk due to the higher spikes in CO VID-19 cases in the U.S. The season was postponed indefinitely on March 16, following recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to restrict events of more than 50 people. The indefinite delay of the season caused MLB to internally consider a number of scenarios for playing the season, as well as analysts suggesting ways it could be done. A shortened regular season, a season with many doubleheaders, and a postseason extending into late November with a World Series at an indoor or warm-weather neutral site were suggested. During May and June, MLB and the MLB Players Association were unable to agree on a specific plan for a shortened season.
In May, MLB owners proposed a schedule of 82 games, withgames played without fans in attendance, with each team fielding 14 wild card winners and four wild card losers. In November, the World Series would be held in June with the larger MLB sites occurring the larger June Series, with all 30 teams utilizing the designated hitter rule and no inter-league play. In July, the Dodgers announced that Dodger Stadium, which was set to host the game, will now host the 2022 All-Stars Game. The 2020 schedule greatly differed from the normal 162-game schedule. In an effort to reduce travel, each team played only nine opponents during the regularseason instead of the usual 19 or 20. Teams were scheduled to play 10 games against each of their four division opponents. The remaining 20 games of the 60- game schedule were interleague contests. To reduce travel,. the interleague division match-ups were AL East vs NL East, AL Central vs NL Central, and AL West vs NL West. At 60 Games, this is the shortest season since the 1878 season. The World series began on Oct. 20, and the Dodgers defeated the Rays in 6 games in the final game of the series to win the title for the first time since 1988, beating them in four games to claim their first World Series title in 1988. The Dodgers will play in the 2022 World Series in Miami, Florida, and St. Petersburg’s Tropicana Field.
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