Baseball: The World Series Goes to a Decisive Seventh Game

The Fox television network got what it wanted, as the World Series between the Kansas City Royals and San Francisco Giants goes to a decisive 7th game tonight.

The Kansas City Royals won their only World Series title in 1985, going seven games. Their other previous World Series appearance resulted in a six game loss in 1980.

By contrast none of the Giants’ 7 World Series titles were achieved in a 7 game series, nor a six game one for that matter.

They did win a best of nine World Series in 8 games in 1921, but all six best of 7 World Series wins were in 5 games or less.

The Giants lost “winner take all,” games for the World Series title in 1912, 1924, 1962 and 2002.