Crowds along Beirut's corniche were treated to a spectacular display on Saturday and Sunday as cliff divers threw themselves off a platform into the sea for the Red Bull Cliff Diving
World Series.
The Bosox held the honor as a decade's best way back when, winning the
World Series over the Giants (1912), Phillies (1915), Dodgers (1916), and Cubs (1918).
To summarize the data in the table succinctly: a team that leads the
World Series by one game (1-0, 2-1, or 3-2) wins the series approximately two-thirds of the time.
Rivera spent 17 of his 19 major league seasons as the Yankees closing reliever, helping them to
World Series crowns in 1996, 1998-2000 and 2009.
First baseman Steve Pearce, who was subsequently named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the
World Series, led the Red Sox's offense, hitting two home runs in Game 5.
The 24-year-old Lin, who is a member of the Bunun tribe and is nicknamed "Tzunami" in Taiwan, yesterday became the second Taiwanese player to win a
World Series ring, after Wang Chien-Ming won his with the Yankees in 2009.
Dubai: France's World No.5 Camille Serme is relishing a return to Dubai when the ATCO PSA Dubai
World Series Finals takes place from June 5-9 at the Emirates Golf Club.
The Filipinos, perennial champs in the nine-year-old bracket, defend their throne against vastly improved Indonesia, eyeing a return stint in the PONY International Mustang-9
World Series set July 27-30 in Walnut, California.
The lucrative tournament - which offers an equal prize purse of $320,000 across the men's and women's events - brings together the top eight men and women on the PSA
World Series Standings, with players earning qualification points at each
World Series event contested during the 2017/18 season.
The 10-and-under Willamette Valley Nationals will be hoping some of that magic rubs off when they go on to the Cal Ripken
World Series, which begins Friday in Hammond, Ind.