| 2015 World Series | ||||||||||
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| Dates | October 27 – November 1 | |||||||||
| Venue(s) | Kauffman Stadium (Kansas City) Citi Field (New York) | |||||||||
| MVP | Salvador Pérez (Kansas City) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Gary Cederstrom (crew chief), Bill Welke (games 1–2), Mike Everitt (games 3–5), Mark Carlson, Mike Winters, Jim Wolf, Alfonso Márquez, Ron Kulpa (replay assistant) | |||||||||
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| Television | Fox (United States) MLB International (International) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Joe Buck, Harold Reynolds, Tom Verducci, Ken Rosenthal and Erin Andrews (Fox) Matt Vasgersian and John Smoltz (MLB International) | |||||||||
| Radio | ESPN KCSP (KC) WOR (NYM) | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Dan Shulman and Aaron Boone (ESPN) Denny Matthews, Ryan Lefebvre, and Steve Physioc (KCSP) Howie Rose and Josh Lewin (WOR) | |||||||||
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| ALCS | Kansas City Royals over Toronto Blue Jays (4–2) | |||||||||
| NLCS | New York Mets over Chicago Cubs (4–0) | |||||||||
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The 2015 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2015 season. The 111th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion New York Mets and the American League (AL) champion Kansas City Royals. The series was played between October 27 and November 1, with the Royals winning the series 4 games to 1, clinching the team's second World Series and first since the 1985 series. It was the first time since 2010 that the Series extended into November.[1]
The Royals had home field advantage for the series because of the AL's 6–3 victory in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. It was the 13th World Series in which home field advantage was awarded to the league that won the All-Star Game, a practice that was discontinued after the 2016 season. The series was played in a 2-3-2 format: the Royals hosted Games 1 and 2, and would have hosted Games 6 and 7 had they been needed. The Mets hosted Games 3, 4, and 5.
The Royals became the first team since the Oakland Athletics in the 1989 World Series to win the World Series after losing in the previous year; and in addition, they became the first expansion team to win the World Series since the Florida Marlins won it all in 2003.[2] It was also the first World Series played between two expansion teams. Salvador Pérez was named the World Series Most Valuable Player.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Teams that lost WS and returned the next year, MLB.com, November 5, 2022