2019 MLB World Series Preview
On 22nd October, baseball’s premier competition begins – the World Series. In this showpiece series of 7 games, the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals will clash to decide who takes home the Commissioner’s Trophy, but how did these teams get here? How have they fared so far postseason? And which team is more likely to come out on top? Major League Baseball sees 30 teams take part in a regular sporting season divided into two leagues – the National League and the American League. Within these leagues, teams play each other multiple times a season, along with some select interleague games, with each team participating in 162 games across the seven month season. These two leagues are split between 3 divisions – West, East and Central. At the end of the regular season, the three teams at the top of each division in both leagues progress to postseason. Postseason began at the start of October with two Wild Card games. Two teams from each league are designated as the Wild C...