2015 World Series

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2015 World Series
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Team (Wins) Manager Season
TBD
New York Mets (0) Terry Collins 90-72, .556, 7 GA
Dates: October 27–November 4[1]
Television: Fox
TV announcers: TBD
Radio: ESPN
Radio announcers: Dan Shulman and Aaron Boone
Umpires:
NLCS: New York Mets beat Chicago Cubs (4–0)
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The 2015 World Series will be the 111th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series, a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion New York Mets and the American League (AL) champions, which will be either the Kansas City Royals or the Toronto Blue Jays. The start date is October 27, with Game 7 (if necessary) scheduled for November 4.[1] If Game 5 is necessary, since it is played on November 1, it will be the first time since 2010 that a World Series game is played in November.[2] This will be the first ever World Series in which both teams will be expansion teams (teams that were formed after 1960). The New York Mets began play in 1962. Their opponent will be either the Kansas City Royals or the Toronto Blue Jays who began play in 1969 and 1977, respectively. The Mets were the first expansion team to not only reach the World Series, but win it as well.

The American League champion will have home field advantage for the series because of the AL's 6–3 victory in the All Star Game at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 14. This is the 14th World Series in which home field advantage was awarded to the league that won the All-Star Game. The series will be played in a 2-3-2 format (Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 at the ballpark of the AL Champion; while the Mets will host Games 3, 4, and 5).

In the United States, the series will be televised on Fox and broadcast by ESPN Radio. In Canada, the series will be broadcast on Sportsnet.

Background[edit]

New York Mets[edit]

The Mets will be making their fifth appearance in the World Series, and their first since 2000. They have split their four previous appearances, winning in 1969 (against Baltimore Orioles) and 1986 (against Boston Red Sox), while losing in 1973 (against the Oakland Athletics) and 2000 (against the New York Yankees). The Mets qualified for the postseason by winning the National League East, their sixth division title. They faced the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLDS winning in five games. In the NLCS, Daniel Murphy led the team by homering in each game of a four game sweep of the Chicago Cubs. By winning the NLCS, the Mets ensured that they have the most World Series appearances by an expansion franchise with five, and that this Series would be the first between two expansion franchises.

Summary[edit]

Series tied, 0–0.

Game Date Score Location Time Attendance 
1 October 27 New York Mets @ American League Champion 8:07 PM ET
2 October 28 New York Mets @ American League Champion 8:07 PM ET
3 October 30 American League Champion @ New York Mets Citi Field 8:07 PM ET
4 October 31 American League Champion @ New York Mets Citi Field 8:07 PM ET
5 November 1 American League Champion @ New York Mets Citi Field 8:07 PM ET
6 November 3 New York Mets @ American League Champion 8:07 PM ET
7 November 4 New York Mets @ American League Champion 8:07 PM ET -

: if necessary

Game summaries[edit]

Game 1[edit]

Tuesday, October 27, 2014 – 8:07 (EDT) at TBD

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 0 0 0
American League 0 0 0
Starting pitchers:
NYM: TBD
AL: TBD

Game 2[edit]

Wednesday, October 28, 2014 – 8:07 (EDT) at TBD

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
New York 0 0 0
American League 0 0 0
Starting pitchers:
NYM: TBD
AL: TBD

Game 3[edit]

Friday, October 30, 2014 – 8:07 (EDT) at Citi Field in Queens, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
American League 0 0 0
New York 0 0 0
Starting pitchers:
AL: TBD
NYM: TBD

Game 4[edit]

Saturday, October 31, 2014 – 8:07 (EDT) at Citi Field in Queens, New York

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
American League 0 0 0
New York 0 0 0
Starting pitchers:
AL: TBD
NYM: TBD

Historical notes[edit]

Popular culture[edit]

In the 1989 film Back to the Future Part II, the Chicago Cubs are depicted as the 2015 World Series champions, defeating a then-fictional American League team from Miami, whose mascot is an alligator.[3] In 1993, Miami was awarded an expansion franchise called the Florida Marlins. The team's name was changed to the Miami Marlins in 2012. However, the Marlins play in the National League (the same league as the Cubs), so a meeting in the World Series between the two teams is not possible. Additionally, the Cubs had won the World Series by October 21 in the film, before the World Series will have even begun. In 2003, the Florida Marlins played the Cubs in the 2003 National League Championship Series, with the Marlins winning 4–3. A second Florida team, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, debuted in 1998 as an American League expansion team, and shortened its name to the Tampa Bay Rays in 2008. Neither the Marlins nor the Rays qualified for the postseason during the real-life 2015 season, though the Cubs did by clinching a wild-card berth and then beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 4–0 to advance to the NLDS against their main rival, the NL Central Division champion St. Louis Cardinals, and beating them in four games to advance to the NLCS against the New York Mets. The Cubs were swept in four games by the Mets, ending their postseason run, on October 21, the day they were predicted to win the World Series in Back to the Future Part II.

Entering the 2015 season, the Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908, giving them the longest championship drought in all four of the major North American professional sports leagues.

Screenwriter Bob Gale, who co-wrote the Back to the Future Part II script, originally intended it as a joke: "Being a baseball fan, I thought, 'OK, let's come up with one of the most unlikely scenarios we can think of'", referencing both the Cubs' long championship drought, and the fact that Florida did not have a baseball team back in 1989. He also explained the October 21 prediction was based on the postseason schedule at the time, and thus would have probably been right had MLB not added the Division Series in 1994.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Newman, Mark (September 24, 2015). "2015 Postseason Schedule". mlb.com. MLB Advanced Media, LP. Retrieved October 1, 2015. 
  2. ^ Jaffe, Jay (September 8, 2014). "MLB announces 2015 schedule with April start, October finish". Sports Illustrated (New York City: Time Inc.). Retrieved May 23, 2015. 
  3. ^ Oz, Mike (December 10, 2014). "Reminder: The Cubs won the 2015 World Series in 'Back to the Future 2'". sports.yahoo.com. NBC Sports Network, Stats LLC, Opta. Retrieved August 5, 2015. 
  4. ^ Placek, Christopher (October 9, 2015). "'Back to the Future' writer says 2015 Cubs prediction no longer a joke". Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, Illinois: Paddock Publications, Inc.). Retrieved October 10, 2015. 

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