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%I #30 Dec 30 2014 04:19:06
%S 0,0,0,8,0,5,6,5,5,7,5,6,8,5,4,5,5,6,6,8,7,8,5,6,7,7,7,4,4,5,6,7,4,5,
%T 7,6,6,5,4,4,7,5,5,5,6,7,7,7,6,5,4,6,7,6,4,7,7,7,7,6,7,5,7,4,7,7,4,7,
%U 7,5,5,7,7,7,5,7,4,6,6,7,6,6,7,5,5,7,7,7,5,4,4,7,6,6,0,6,6,7,4,4,5,7,7,6,4,4,5,4,5,6,5,7,4,6,7
%N Number of games in Major League Baseball's World Series for the year 1900 + n.
%C Although baseball's first World Series, in 1903, was an 8-game series, as were those in 1912, 1919, and 1921, it has ever since been a best-of-seven-game series.
%H <a href="http://www.baseball-almanac.com/ws/wsmenu.shtml">World Series History</a>.
%e a(3) = 8 because the first World Series was in 1903, as an 8-game series where the Boston Americans won 5 games and the Pittsburgh Pirates won 3 games.
%e a(4) = 0 because there was no 1904 World Series.
%e a(5) = 5 because the 1905 World Series was a 5-game series (New York Giants 4, Philadelphia Athletics 1).
%e a(6) = 6 because in 1906 there was a 6-game series (Chicago White Sox 4, Chicago Cubs 2).
%e a(94) = 0 because a Major League Baseball strike prevented a 1994 World Series.
%e a(105) = 4 because The 2005 World Series, the 101st Major League Baseball championship series, saw the American League champion Chicago White Sox sweep the National League champion Houston Astros four games to none in the best-of-seven-games series, winning their third championship and first since 1917.
%e a(106) = 5 because the National League champion St. Louis Cardinals beat the Detroit Tigers in five games, taking Games 1, 3, 4 and 5.
%e a(107) = 4 because the Boston Red Sox won the Series in four games against the Colorado Rockies (who were making their first World Series appearance).
%e a(108) = 5 because the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Tampa Bay Rays in games 1, 3, 4, and 5.
%e a(109) = 6 because the Yankees defeated the Phillies, four games to two, to win the franchise's 27th World Series championship.
%e a(110) = 5 because the San Francisco Giants beat the Texas Rangers (in their first ever World Series) 4 games to 1.
%e a(111) = 7 because the Cardinals defeated the Rangers in seven games to win their 11th World Series championship, the first World Series to go all seven games since 2002.
%e a(112) = 4 because the San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers concluding Oct 28, 2012.
%e a(113) = 6 because the Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals in game #6 4 games to 2, on October 30, 2013, for the first time that Boston clinched a series at home in 95 years.
%Y Cf. A115380, A121379, A121403, A136407.
%K nonn
%O 0,4
%A _Jonathan Vos Post_, Oct 29 2008
%E a(105-112) by _Jonathan Vos Post_, Oct 28 2012
%E a(113) by _Jonathan Vos Post_, Nov 02 2013
%E a(9) corrected, and missing terms among last several terms inserted (so as to make Data section agree with information at site in Links, as well as information in Comments and Example sections, all of which agreed), by _Jon E. Schoenfield_, Dec 30 2014
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