MLB 2007 Playoffs

Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. More specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates North American professional baseball's two leagues, the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure which has existed between them since 1903. Major League Baseball teams play a 162 game season.

When the regular season ends after the first Sunday in October (or the last Sunday in September), eight teams enter the post-season playoffs. Six teams are division champions; the remaining two "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). Three rounds of series of games are played to determine the champion:

1.American League Division Series and National League Division Series, each a best-of-five game series;

2.American League Championship Series and National League Championship Series, each a best-of-seven game series played between the surviving teams from the ALDS and NLDS; and

3.World Series, a best-of-seven game series played between the champions of each league.

The New York Yankees have the most World Series Titles with a total of 26. The St. Louis Cardinals are last season’s World Series champions, beating out the Detroit Tigers 4 games to 1. The St. Louis Cardinals have a total of 10 World Series titles, second to the New York Yankees.

Odds to win the 2007 World Series are:

Boston Red Sox: 3/1

New York Yankees: 3/1

New York Mets: 4/1

Cleveland Indians: 8/1

Los Angeles Angels: 9/2