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| Dates | October 28 – November 5 | |||||||||
| Venue(s) | Minute Maid Park (Houston) Citizens Bank Park (Philadelphia) | |||||||||
| MVP | Jeremy Peña (Houston) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Jordan Baker, Lance Barksdale, Tripp Gibson, Pat Hoberg, James Hoye, Dan Iassogna (crew chief), Alan Porter | |||||||||
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| Television | Fox (United States – English) Fox Deportes (United States – Spanish) MLB International (International) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Joe Davis, John Smoltz, Ken Rosenthal, and Tom Verducci (Fox) Adrián García Márquez, Edgar González, Carlos Álvarez, and Jaime Motta (Fox Deportes) Dave Flemming and Dan Plesac (MLB International – English) | |||||||||
| Radio | ESPN (United States – English) TUDN (United States – Spanish) WIP, WPHT, KYW (PHI – English) WTTM (PHI – Spanish) KBME (HOU – English) KLAT (HOU – Spanish) | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Dan Shulman, Jessica Mendoza, Eduardo Pérez and Buster Olney (ESPN) Jesús Acostas, Enrique Burak, Alberto Ferreiro, José Luis Nápoles, Luis Eduardo Quiñones, and Antonio de Valdés (TUDN) Scott Franzke, Tom McCarthy, and Larry Andersen (WIP) Oscar Budejen and Bill Kulik (WTTM) Robert Ford and Steve Sparks (KBME) Francisco Romero and Alex Treviño (KLAT) | |||||||||
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| ALCS | Houston Astros over New York Yankees (4–0) | |||||||||
| NLCS | Philadelphia Phillies over San Diego Padres (4–1) | |||||||||
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The 2022 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2022 season. The 118th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Houston Astros and the National League (NL) champion Philadelphia Phillies. The Astros defeated the Phillies in six games to earn their second World Series championship. The series was broadcast in the United States on Fox television and ESPN Radio.[1]
The Houston Astros entered the 2022 MLB postseason as the AL West champions and the top-seeded AL team, while the Phillies won a wild card, earning the sixth and final NL playoff berth. The Phillies took a 2–1 lead after three games, before the Astros won the final three games to win the series. Jeremy Peña won the World Series Most Valuable Player Award, the first position player to win the award as a rookie.[2]
The series was notable for being the first series to have a universal designated hitter (DH), which had alternated in prior years. 2022 also saw the first World Series no-hitter since Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, when Astros pitchers Cristian Javier, Bryan Abreu, Rafael Montero, and Ryan Pressly combined to leave the Phillies hitless in Game 4. It was also the third postseason no-hitter in MLB history, after Roy Halladay's no-hitter (also at Citizens Bank Park) in Game 1 of the 2010 National League Division Series.
MLB has sold sponsorships to various postseason series since 2017, with YouTube TV serving as the official presenting sponsor of the World Series from 2017 through 2019.[3] The World Series did not have a presenting sponsor in 2020 or 2021, but resumed sponsorship in 2022.[4] As a result of a new multi-year agreement with Capital One, this World Series was officially known as the 2022 World Series presented by Capital One.[5]
- ^ Harrigan, Thomas (November 6, 2022). "MLB announces 2022 playoff schedule". mlb.com. Major League Baseball. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
- ^ "Astros' Peña 1st rookie hitter to win World Series MVP". Associated Press. November 6, 2022.
- ^ Spangler, Todd (May 8, 2018). "YouTube TV Renews MLB Marketing Pact, Will Sponsor 2018 and 2019 World Series". Variety. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
- ^ Jabari Young (March 28, 2022). "MLB reaches a $125 million sponsorship deal with Capital One". CNBC.com. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
- ^ Sam Carp (March 28, 2022). "MLB banks 'US$125m' Capital One sponsorship deal". Sports Pro Media. Retrieved September 20, 2022.