This World Collection is sort of actually going to be the primary to function the MVPs of each leagues since 2012. (We simply have to attend for the votes to come back again.) That 2012 sequence featured Detroit’s Miguel Cabrera vs. San Francisco’s Buster Posey.
Coincidentally, that was additionally the final World Collection to function a four-game sweep, with the eventual Nationwide League MVP getting the most effective of the matchup.
Effectively, the Yankees nonetheless have six outs tonight to make one thing occur. After which they’re going to have all of Sport 4 tomorrow evening. However, hmm … might historical past be repeating itself?
In all, there have been simply 4 World Collection sweeps this century, with the others coming in 2004 (Pink Sox over Cardinals), 2005 (White Sox over Astros) and 2007 (Pink Sox over Rockies.)
Earlier than 2012, the final World Collection to function two MVPs was 1988, when the Dodgers’ Kirk Gibson confronted the A’s Jose Canseco. The NL MVP prevailed in that one, too, although the A’s narrowly averted a sweep.
