Regular-season baseball games between the American and National Leagues
This article is about Major League Baseball interleague play. For Nippon Professional Baseball interleague play, see Interleague play (NPB).
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Interleague play in Major League Baseball refers to regular-season baseball games played between an American League (AL) team and a National League (NL) team. Interleague play was first introduced during the 1997 Major League Baseball season. Prior to that, matchups between AL teams and NL teams occurred only during spring training, the All-Star Game, other exhibition games (such as the now defunct Hall of Fame Game in Cooperstown, New York), and the World Series. Unlike modern interleague play, none of these contests, except for the World Series, counted toward official team or league records.
Interleagueplay in Major League Baseball refers to regular-season baseball games played between an American League (AL) team and a National League (NL)...
their leagues and 20 interleague games. The move of the Astros led to interleagueplay throughout the season. The number of interleague games against natural...
during interleagueplay between 1997 and 2021, the DH rule was applied to a game based on the rules of the home team's league. If the game was played in an...
each (238 games) 70 pairings will play 6 games each (420 games) Total: 1087 games. The schedule for interleagueplay comprised 84 three-game series in...
times each and facing their six interleague opponents three times each in late May to early June in interleagueplay, with a separate champion being crowned...
player movement between leagues, the introduction of regular season interleagueplay in 1997, umpires working games across MLB beginning in 1999, and the...
voted in 1988 to playinterleague games as part of the Triple-A Alliance. The league also split into two divisions that year. The interleague concept ended...
sporadic postseason competitions throughout the league's history. Other interleagueplay occurred during the Triple-A All-Star Game. Traditionally, the game...
one interleague game per day, but for one weekend in late May, all teams will participate in an interleague series. Before 2013, interleagueplay was...
Pacific League Standings". Retrieved June 9, 2024. "2023年度 交流戦" [2024 InterleaguePlay] (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved June 9, 2024...
the West Coast. Before the institution of interleagueplay in 1997, the two teams had little opportunity to play each other except in seven World Series:...
an outgrowth of the "natural rivalry" established by MLB as part of interleagueplay as the Rangers are a member of the American League (AL) and the Astros...
baseball through the 1994 strike, the introduction of the wild card, interleagueplay, and the de facto merging of the National and American Leagues under...
from the previous season retains it. Prior to the introduction of interleagueplay, the current Cincinnati and Cleveland franchises had only met in spring...
League), NFL teams were occasionally invited northward for exhibition interleagueplay. The CFL has also attempted to find a television audience in the United...
only in years in which the AL Central played the NL Central in the former interleagueplay rotation. The teams played six games in 2020 as MLB instituted...
which used to be played solely as exhibitions for bragging rights are now blended into interleagueplay. The annual MLB All-Star Game, played in July between...
every season excluding 2017, since interleagueplay was introduced in 1997. Following the introduction of interleagueplay, one of the 15 naturalized rivalries...
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