The 2024 World Series, in a matchup of 1 MLB’s most well-known rivalries between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees, pits the nation’s two most necessary sports activities markets towards one another.
It will likely be held in two of essentially the most emblematic stadiums in Main League Baseball: Dodger Stadium at Elysian Park within the metropolis of Los Angeles and Yankee Stadium within the Bronx.
This yr, the workforce from Los Angeles has dwelling area benefit, after ending the common season with the greatest file within the league 98-64 (.605), which implies that within the World Collection, they may host the primary two video games and 4 of the seven video games scheduled. The Yankees, in the meantime, completed with the third greatest file of the yr at 94-68 (.580), behind the Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies.
The format of the World Collection, as was the case within the Championship Collection, is 2-3-2, that’s, the workforce from Los Angeles will host the primary two video games. The New York workforce will host the subsequent three video games and, in case the sequence is prolonged, the ultimate two video games might be performed in Los Angeles.
To be able to determine dwelling area benefit within the World Collection, MLB has established lately that the workforce with the most effective successful file throughout the common season will get it. In earlier years this benefit was determined by different components, akin to the end result of the All-Star Recreation or just alternating between one League and the opposite.
Within the occasion of a tie within the file of the groups competing within the World Collection, the tie-breaking criterion is head-to-head outcomes between the groups within the common season, because the very lengthy 162-game schedule establishes that every one groups should face one another no less than as soon as per season.
What’s the schedule for the 2024 World Collection?
Beginning this Friday, October 25, the a hundred and twentieth version of the Fall Basic will start. All of it begins on Friday the twenty fifth and Recreation 2 might be performed on Saturday the twenty sixth. Sunday is a day of relaxation for the journey to the Massive Apple. Video games on Monday the twenty eighth and Tuesday the twenty ninth might be performed there.
From that time on subsequent video games might be held if obligatory if there isn’t any champion after the primary 4 video games. Right here is the schedule:
- Friday, Oct. 25: Yankees vs. Dodgers – 8:08 p.m. ET/17:08 p.m. PT
- Saturday, Oct. 26: Yankees vs Dodgers – 8:08 p.m. ET/17:08 p.m. PT
- Monday, Oct. 28: Dodgers vs. Yankees – 8:08 p.m. ET/17:08 p.m. PT
- Tuesday, Oct. 29: Dodgers vs. Yankees – 8:08 p.m. ET/17:08 p.m. PT
- Wednesday, October 30: Dodgers vs. Yankees – 8:08 p.m. ET/17:08 p.m. PT *
- Friday, November 1: Yankees vs. Dodgers – 8:08 p.m. ET/17:08 p.m. PT *
- Saturday, November 2: Yankees vs. Dodgers – 8:08 p.m. ET/17:08 p.m. PT *
Statistically, nonetheless, dwelling area benefit remains to be essential in figuring out the winner.
Groups with dwelling area benefit within the World Collection since 1995, when the Wild Card section was applied, have received 19 of 28 instances, or 67.9% of the time, not counting the 2020 World Collection when it was performed at a impartial web site due to the pandemic.
Nevertheless, with regards to Recreation 7, the house workforce has a file of 19 wins in 21 video games within the World Collection and 64-66 in playoffs, together with 2024.
Curiously, in final yr’s World Collection, the Texas Rangers picked up three of their 4 victories final yr on the highway towards the Arizona Diamondbacks.
