World Series
or World's Series
an annual series of games between the winning teams of the two major leagues: the first team to win four games being champions of the U.S.
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How to use World Series in a sentence
The San Diego Padres had to do something to improve their World Series odds leading into Monday’s Major League Baseball trade deadline.
Capping it all off with a World Series victory, Betts had a year for the ages — the kind which most great players can really expect to have just once, if they have one at all.
Mookie Betts Is Playing Like An MVP — And The Dodgers Have Needed It | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | August 20, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightIt might be hiding World Series talent that would have come out if only the season had been longer.
Bad Teams May Be Posing As Good Teams In A 60-Game Baseball Season | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | August 7, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightWhen they started the year 14-5, hopes were high the team could reclaim its World Series form of just a few seasons earlier.
Bad Teams May Be Posing As Good Teams In A 60-Game Baseball Season | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | August 7, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightAlthough the overall effect wasn’t enough to keep the Dodgers, Yankees and Astros from staying World Series favorites, their odds have dropped by a not-insignificant amount.
The Winners And Losers In MLB’s New Playoff Format | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | July 24, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
Instead, he gives his very best effort and tries to win the World Series with a single swing of his bat.
After Torture Report, Our Moral Authority As a Nation Is Gone | Nick Gillespie | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRiots broke out both after last year's pumpkin festival and after the Red Sox World Series win last year.
Frat Culture Clashes With Riot Police at Keene, N.H., Pumpkin Festival | Melanie Plenda | October 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis five World Series rings put him behind only 20 other players, 19 of whom were Yankees.
10 Unforgettable Derek Jeter Highlights (VIDEO) | Jack Holmes | September 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn the way to the 1996 World Series, the Yankees met the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Championship Series.
10 Unforgettable Derek Jeter Highlights (VIDEO) | Jack Holmes | September 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe first World Series of the new millennium was an all-New York affair.
10 Unforgettable Derek Jeter Highlights (VIDEO) | Jack Holmes | September 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYouve hit on an idea thats going to win the pennant of the League this season, with the World Series thrown in for good measure.
Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team | Lester ChadwickIm already spending my World Series money, crowed Larry, the irrepressible, to his comrades gathered about him in the smoker.
Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team | Lester ChadwickAnd even if we win the pennant, theres the World Series, and thats something else again.
Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team | Lester ChadwickWell get that much even if we lose the World Series, and a good deal more if we win.
Baseball Joe in the World Series | Lester ChadwickIt brought a bigger reputation, a larger salary and a capital chance to get into the World Series.
Baseball Joe in the World Series | Lester Chadwick
British Dictionary definitions for World Series
baseball (in the US and Canada) a best-of-seven playoff for the world championship between the two winning teams in the major leagues at the end of the season
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for World Series
A series of baseball games held each October between the champions of the two major baseball leagues, the American League and the National League.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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