The Major League Baseball season runs from the start of April to the end of September, with each club playing 162 games. That means about one day off every ten days, so baseball is pretty much "game-a-day".
Teams normally play "series" of three (occasionally four) games on consecutive days against the same opponent, normally with a "homestand" of two or three series, or a "road trip" (though most of the travelling is now done by air!) of two or three series. So a fan can expect to have a week of home games, and then nothing but Baseball on TV for the next week or so.
If a game is "rained out", then it's replayed later in the season (unless at least five innings have been completed for both teams, in which case the score is "called" at the point at which both teams had completed the last innings), usually as part of a "double header" (two games played on the same day).
Nowadays a double header means one game in the afternoon and one in the evening (the "night cap"), which is particularly tough on a pitching staff (as there's no time for rest at all). In the past double-headers used to sometimes be scheduled (for example on public holidays) with fans getting two games for the price of one. In modern day Baseball, however, they sell separate tickets for each game and generally there is at least a couple of hours between games, not least to allow the first game's crowd to leave and the second game's crowd to come in.
In modern day Baseball most midweek games are typically played in the evening, under floodlights (to allow people to come to watch the game after work), and often weekend games are played during the afternoon. However, if television wants a game to start at a particular time, then generally it'll start when television dictates!
The Postseason & The World Series
At the end of the regular season the three divisional winners (ranked 1, 2 and 3 according to their win-loss records) and the wild-card team (ranked 4) from each league (the American League and the National League) go forward into the playoffs. The four teams in each league play two series of knockout baseball to determine the who "wins the pennant" (by tradition, the league winners are awarded a pennant to fly over their stadium). The two league winners then meet in the "World Series" (so called, because the first sponsor was the "Daily World" newspaper).
The first round of the playoffs (known as the "Divisional Series") are played over the best-of-five games (the first two at one venue, then two at the other, then a fifth at the first venue if required), with the higher ranked team having "home field advantage" (i.e. three home games and two on the road). The second round of the playoffs (known as the "Championship Series") are played over the best-of-seven games, with home field advantage meaning four home games (two games at one venue, three at the other, then two more at the first venue).
In the first round, the no.1 ranked team plays the no.4 ranked team (and no.2 plays no.3), unless they came from the same division, in which case 1 plays 3, and 2 plays 4. Ties in rankings are broken by the toss of a coin!
Note: the Major Leagues keep changing the formats for seedings, who plays who and schedules, and the TV companies have an impact on scheduling as well.
If a team can clinch a postseason series early it's a big advantage, as they can rest their players and "set up" their pitching rotation for the next series (if your star pitcher had to play in the final game of the Divisional Series, he won't be rested enough to pitch until the middle of the Championship series). However, if a hitter doesn't play for more than a day or two he tends to get out of rhythm, and teams with a few days off will normally play one or two practice matches (but not involving their pitchers).
Normally (unlike the regular season) there is a day's travel in the middle of the series when the venue changes, so teams can normally have smaller pitching rotations for playoff series (because of the extra days' rest). Teams will normally change their rosters slightly for playoff series, perhaps bringing in an extra hitter for a pitcher, or a pitcher more used to pitching from the bullpen.
The World Series
The playoffs climax with the World Series (also known as the "Fall Classic"), matching up the champions of the two leagues, playing a best of seven series with AL rules in AL ballparks, and NL rules in NL ballparks.
Home field Advantage for the World Series is currently decided by whichever league wins the "All-Star Game" - a serious debating point for all Baseball fans. In the past the two leagues simply took turns - one year the AL, the next the NL.
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