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The 2014 World Series will be the 110th edition of Major League Baseball's championship series. The best-of-seven playoff will involve the National League champion San Francisco Giants and the American League champion Kansas City Royals. The start date of October 21, 2014 is the first scheduled Tuesday start day for a World Series since 1990.

The Royals will have home field advantage for the series as a result of the American League's 5–3 victory in the All Star Game at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minnesota on July 15. The Royals swept a three game series with the Giants in Kansas City from August 8–10, winning 4–2, 5–0, and 7–4.

This is just the second World Series in history to pit two wild card teams against one another, with the other time being the 2002 World Series between the Giants and the Anaheim Angels. It is the first World Series to involve a team (let alone two) that played in the additional wild card game instituted in 2012. Consequently, the World Series winning team is guaranteed to set the record for most postseason victories in a single postseason with 12. Additionally, this is the first World Series where both teams played in a play-in game (whether it is the wild-card game since 2012, or a tie breaker from 1995-2011) since the Division Series was added in 1995. It will be the fifth postseason meeting between a California team and Missouri team in 2014.

Background

Kansas City Royals

The Royals are making their third World Series appearance in franchise history. Their last appearance was in 1985, wherein they defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games, and their other appearance was in 1980, wherein they lost to the Philadelphia Phillies in six games. They enter the 2014 World series after beating the Oakland Athletics in the AL Wild Card game, sweeping the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the ALDS , and sweeping the Baltimore Orioles in the ALCS.

San Francisco Giants

The Giants are making their third World Series appearance in five years, having won in 2010 and 2012, their 20th appearance overall, and their 6th appearance since moving to San Francisco from New York in 1958. They defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in the NL Wild Card game, defeated the Washington Nationals in the NLDS 3 games to 1, and the St. Louis Cardinals in the NLCS 4 games to 1.

Summary

Series tied, 0–0.

†: if necessary

Matchups

Game 2

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 – 8:07 p.m. (EDT) at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri

Game 3

Friday, October 24, 2014 – 8:07 p.m. (EDT) at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California

Game 4

Saturday, October 25, 2014 – 8:07 p.m. (EDT) at AT&T Park in San Francisco, California

Broadcasting

The World Series will start on a Tuesday instead of Wednesday like in previous years. This will avoid a game on Thursday, generally a big day of TV viewing, where the series would face stiff competition from Thursday Night Football, ESPN College Football Thursday Primetime, and various popular primetime entertainment shows. The change also means that the series only has to compete with the NFL on at most one night (Sunday) instead of three (Thursday, Sunday and Monday).

Fox will televise the series in the United States with Joe Buck, Tom Verducci and Harold Reynolds calling the action. Reynolds and Verducci replace longtime color commentator Tim McCarver, who retired following the 2013 season.

References

1. ^ "MLB Schedule". MLB.com. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
2. "Forget the gimmicks, capturing emotion of Derek Jeter's All-Star Game farewell the key to Fox broadcast". New York Daily News. July 11, 2014. Retrieved July 13, 2014. Among the enticements is the being played for World Series home field advantage
3. ^ http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/11510241/world-series-scheduled-open-tuesday-oct-21
4. Sandomir, Richard (22 October 2013). "Anticipating His Next Play, McCarver Is Closing Out an Era". The New York Times.

External links

• 2014 Postseason Schedule at MLB.com
• 2014 MLB postseason schedule at ESPN

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