Baseball W.S. Winning Streaks Notes

Two interleague baseball series this week were rematches of past World Series.

Cited here, the Reds/Red Sox series took place in the 50th anniversary year of their classic 1975 W.S. won by Cincinnati (Reds) in 7 games.

The other one, matching the current World champion Los Angeles Dodgers (now 55-32) and the Chicago White Sox (28-58 but ahead of last year’s “pace,” when they finished (41-121), was a rematch of the 1959 World Series, won by L.A. in 6 games.

All four teams involved, each with a history of World Series winning droughts, has a current World Series winning streak.

Boston (Red Sox) top it, having won in their last 4 W.S. appearances, much as they won in their first 5, including the first one played, that in 1903, after an 86 year title drought in which they lost 4 World Series, all in 7 games–thus even in defeat the Red Sox have been tremendous World Series performers.

The ’75 Reds World Series triumph began what is a 3 World Series win skein for the team, after the ’75 title win ended a 35 year title drought.

Chicago (White Sox) won the last 8 ALCS and World Series tilts in 2005, all after a junior senator from Illinois, named Barack Obama, threw out the first ball at game 2 of the ALCS vs the Angels and ended an 88 year drought, sweeping the then N.L. , Houston Astros, who subsequently won their first two W.S. (’17 one hundred years after the White Sox last crown before 2005 and also under Dusty Baker in 2022).

Finally, the Dodgers, a major sports league record losers in their first 7 final rounds/World Series and sans a crown for 32 years (Sandy’s # but alas 2020 in “neutral” does not “crank” it) have won in their last 2 W.S. that one after a 50 game season in 2020, and a tremendous victory through the 2024 season and ‘offs.

The great Tris Speaker, pictured above, played on Boston title teams in 1912 and 1915 before being a player manager on one of two Cleveland (Guardians nee Indians) W.S. winning teams in 1920.

Cleveland’s 77 year(s) (likely and counting as minimum they are way behind in their “div”) sans a crown is baseball’s longest and I believe second only to the football Cardinals (by one year) such streak.