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MLB - NL - NY Mets VS Washington Nationals - Part 1

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Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball.

Specifically, MLB refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903.

It is currently composed of 30 teams - 29 in the US and 1 in Canada.

Each season consists of 162 games (with an additional game, or games, in case of a tie breaker needed to determine playoff participation), which generally begins on the 1st Sunday in APR and ends on the 1st Sunday in OCT, with the playoffs played in OCT and sometimes in early NOV.

The same rules and regulations are played between the 2 leagues with one exception: the American League operates under the Designated Hitter Rule, while the National League does not.

Utilization of the DH Rule in interleague play, the All-Star and World Series games is determined by the home team’s league rules.

Under the direction of Commissioner of Baseball, MLB hires and maintains the sport’s umpiring crews, and negotiates marketing, labor, and television contracts.

MLB maintains a unique, controlling relationship over the sport, including most aspects of minor league baseball.

The production/multimedia wing of MLB is New York-based MLB Advanced Media, which oversees MLB.com and all 30 of the individual teams’ websites.

MLB is divided into 2 leagues, the American League, with 14 teams, and the National League, with 16 teams. Each league is further subdivided into 3 divisions, labeled East, Central, and West.

In 1903, the 2 leagues began to meet in an end-of-year championship series called the World Series.

A baseball uniform is a type of uniform worn by baseball players, and sometimes by non-playing personnel, such as managers and coaches.

By the end of the 19th century, teams began the practice of wearing one of 2 different uniforms, one when they played in their own baseball stadium and a different one when they played on the road.

Spring training is a series of practices and exhibition games preceding the start of the regular season.

Early July marks the midway point of the season, during which a 3 day break is taken when the MLB All-Star Game is staged.

The All-Star game pits players from the National League (NL), headed up by the manager of the previous NL World Series team, against players from the American League (AL), similarly managed, in an exhibition game.

When the regular season ends after the first SUN in OCT (or the last SUN in SEP), 8 teams enter the post-season playoffs.

6 teams are division champions; the remaining 2 “wild-card” spots are filled by the team in each league that has the best record but is not a division champion (best second-place team).

3 rounds of series of games are played to determine the champion:

1. AL Division Series and NL Division Series, each a best-of-5 game series;
2. AL Championship Series and NL Championship Series, each a best-of-7 game series played between the surviving teams from the ALDS and NLDS; and
3. World Series, a best-of-7 game series played between the champions of each league.

MLB has several blackout rules. A local broadcaster has priority to televise games of the team in their market over national broadcasters.

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