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When the Dodgers completed off the Mets in Sport 6 of the Nationwide League Championship Sequence on Sunday, it ensured that the baseball world would have a five-day wait till the beginning of the World Sequence.
The 2024 World Sequence between the Dodgers and Yankees will start on Friday, Oct. 25, and can play till Saturday, Nov. 2 if it goes all seven video games.
That results in the plain query: Why is there such an extended hole between the top of the 2 League Championship Sequence and the beginning of the World Sequence?
MLB did truly plan for this. When it launched the postseason schedule in early August, it did enable for transferring up the dates of the World Sequence if each LCS completed early.
However with a five-game ALCS and a six-game NLCS, these collection didn’t end rapidly sufficient to set off that schedule adjustment. If each league championship collection had wrapped up by Saturday, Oct. 19 then the primary sport of the World Sequence would have been moved as much as Tuesday, Oct. 22. In that state of affairs, the World Sequence would have run from Oct. 22 to Oct. 30.
So when the Mets pressured a Sport 6 within the NLCS, additionally they made certain that the World Sequence would begin on Friday. If the NLCS had gone to seven video games, it will have wrapped up on Monday, Oct. 21. If the ALCS had gone to seven video games, it will have completed on Tuesday, Oct. 22.
So if the ALCS had gone seven video games, a Friday World Sequence begin made excellent sense (particularly because the league needed to enable for the potential for a rainout that might have pushed the sport again a day to Wednesday). And if the NLCS had completed one sport sooner, we’d be preparing for the World Sequence to begin a day from now. As a substitute, everybody will get a full work week to prepare for the World Sequence.
World Sequence Schedule
Begin occasions for the video games have but to be introduced. All video games are set to be broadcast on Fox.
| Sport 1 | Friday, Oct. 25 | Yankees at Dodgers | |||
| Sport 2 | Saturday, Oct. 26 | Yankees at Dodgers | |||
| Sport 3 | Monday, Oct. 28 | Dodgers at Yankees | |||
| Sport 4 | Tuesday, Oct. 29 | Dodgers at Yankees | |||
| Sport 5 (if essential) | Wednesday, Oct. 30 | Dodgers at Yankees | |||
| Sport 6 (if essential) | Friday, Nov. 1 | Yankees at Dodgers | |||
| Sport 7 (if essential) | Saturday, Nov. 2 | Yankees at Dodgers |