The following is the list of teams to overcome 3–1 series deficits mainly concerning North American professional sports within a best-of-seven series. The listed teams won three consecutive games after being down three games to one in a best-of-seven playoff series.

All 3–1 deficit comebacks in a seven-game series involve winning three straight elimination games, finally featuring a double-elimination game seven. Longer series of this nature are almost always structured as single-elimination knockout tournaments, so one more loss ends playoff contention for the losing side.

This playoff structure is common in North American professional sports, particularly in the sports of baseball, basketball, and ice hockey.

Within North America, there are also some intermediate leagues below the major league level such as hockey’s Calder Cup.

These are noted in the series comment cells and—lacking an explicit column in the tabular format—can be identified with a text search within the article page for the text string “3–0”.

In the history of these leagues, teams that were down 3–1 in a series have come back to win the series 58 times. 14 times in MLB, 13 times in the NBA, and 31 times in the NHL.

There have been three instances of a team coming back from a 3–1 deficit twice in the same postseason. occurring once in the MLB, NBA, and NHL.

MLB teams have overcome 3–1 deficits 14 times (including one 3–0 deficit), six of which occurred in the World Series. This does not count the 1903 World Series, during which the Boston Americans (or Puritans, or Pilgrims, depending on the source, and later known as the Red Sox) came back from a 3–1 deficit to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates, five games to three, as that was a best-of-nine series.

Six other MLB teams have evened the series after being down 3–1 (including one down 3–0), only to lose game seven.

The NBA is the only major North American sport with seven-game playoff series where no team has overcome a 3–0 deficit.

In four of these instances, a team was down 3–0 in the series.

The Rangers, the Vancouver Canucks, and the Montreal Canadiens are tied with the most successful 3–1 series comebacks in the NHL, with three. Only one instance has occurred during the Stanley Cup Finals, accomplished in 1942 by the Toronto Maple Leafs, who initially trailed three games to zero.

NHL teams have managed to force a seventh game while facing a 3–1 series deficit 32 times, only to subsequently lose the series in the seventh game. Five of these instances consisted of falling behind 3–0 in the series before losing in Game Seven.

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The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It is held during late October to early November.

The winner of the World Series championship is determined through a best-of-seven playoff, and the winning team is awarded the Commissioner’s Trophy.

Since then each league has conducted a League Championship Series (ALCS and NLCS) preceding the World Series to determine which teams will advance, while those series have been preceded in turn by Division Series (ALDS and NLDS) since 1995, and Wild Card games or series in each league since 2012. Until 2002, home-field advantage in the World Series alternated from year to year between the AL and NL.

Starting in 2017, home-field advantage was awarded to the league champion team with the better regular-season win–loss record, regardless of that team’s seeding in earlier playoff rounds (i.e. a Wild Card team in one league will have home-field advantage over a division winner in the other league if the WC team had a better record or wins the tie-breaking procedure).

The World Series has been contested 119 times as of 2023, with the AL team winning 68 times and the NL team 51.

All championships were awarded to the team with the best record at the end of the season, without a postseason series being played. From 1884 to 1890, the National League and the American Association faced each other in a series of games at the end of the season to determine an overall champion.

The number of games played ranged from as few as three in 1884 (Providence defeated New York three games to zero), to a high of fifteen in 1887 (Detroit beat St. Louis ten games to five).

The series was promoted and referred to as “The Championship of the United States”, “World’s Championship Series”, or “World’s Series” for short. In his book Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, Simon Winchester mentions in passing that the World Series was named for the New York World newspaper, but this view is disputed.

The 19th-century competitions are, however, not officially recognized as part of World Series history by Major League Baseball, as it considers 19th-century baseball to be a prologue to the modern baseball era. As late as approximately 1960, some sources treated the 19th-century Series on an equal basis with the post-19th-century series.

(For example, the 1929 World Almanac and Book of Facts lists “Baseball World’s Championships 1884–1928” in a single table, but the 1943 edition lists “Baseball World’s Championships 1903–1942”. ).

Following the collapse of the American Association after the 1891 season, the National League was again the only major league. The league championship was awarded in 1892 by a playoff between split season champions.

Beginning in 1893—and continuing until divisional play was introduced in 1969—the pennant was awarded to the first-place club in the standings at the end of the season. For four seasons, 1894–1897, the league champions played the runners-up in the postseason championship series called the Temple Cup.

In 1901, the American League was formed as a second major league. No championship series were played in 1901 or 1902 as the National and American Leagues fought each other for business supremacy (in 1902, the top teams instead opted to compete in a football championship).

After two years of bitter competition and player raiding, the National and American Leagues made peace and, as part of the accord, several pairs of teams squared off for interleague exhibition games following the 1903 season. These series were arranged by the participating clubs, as the 1880s World’s Series matches had been.

It had been arranged well in advance by the two club owners, as both teams were league leaders by large margins.

The Series brought much civic pride to Boston and proved the new American League could beat the Nationals.[citation needed]. The 1904 Series, if it had been held, would have been between the AL’s Boston Americans (Boston Red Sox) and the NL’s New York Giants (now the San Francisco Giants).

Thus the Giants’ owner John T. Brush refused to allow his team to participate in such an event, citing the “inferiority” of the upstart American League.

At the time of the announcement, their new cross-town rivals, the New York Highlanders (now the New York Yankees), were leading the AL, and the prospect of facing the Highlanders did not please Giants management. Boston won on the last day of the season, and the leagues had previously agreed to hold a World’s Championship Series in 1904, but it was not binding, and Brush stuck to his original decision.

During the winter of 1904–1905, however, feeling the sting of press criticism, Brush had a change of heart and proposed what came to be known as the “Brush Rules”, under which the series were played subsequently. One rule was that player shares would come from a portion of the gate receipts for the first four games only.

Receipts for later games was split among the two clubs and the National Commission, the governing body for the sport, which was able to cover much of its annual operating expense from World Series revenue. Most importantly, the now-official and compulsory World Series matches were operated strictly by the National Commission itself, not by the participating clubs.

With the new rules in place and the National Commission in control, McGraw’s Giants made it to the 1905 Series and beat the Philadelphia Athletics four games to one. Since then the Series has been held every year except 1994, when it was canceled due to a players’ strike.

The list of postseason rules evolved over time. From 1919 to 1921, the best-of-nine format first used in 1903 was employed.

Previously, the pattern had been to alternate by game or to make another arrangement convenient to both clubs. The 2–3–2 pattern has been used ever since save for the 1943 and 1945 World Series, which followed a 3–4 pattern due to World War II travel restrictions.

Gambling and game-fixing had been a problem in professional baseball from the beginning. star pitcher Jim Devlin was banned for life in 1877 when the National League was just two years old.

The Sox had won the Series in 1917 and were heavy favorites to beat the Cincinnati Reds in 1919, but first baseman Chick Gandil had other plans.

NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 23: Members of the Houston Astros celebrates with teammates on the field after Astros defeated the New York Yankees in Game 4 of the ALCS at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, October 23, 2022 in New York, New York. (Photo by Mary DeCic.

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In each of their World Series runs, the Astros have never won the first game of the best-of-seven series. Despite a Game 1 loss, the team has, in the past, come back to win the series once before.

Here’s a look back at the Astros’ world series history. They are calling this the biggest World Series mismatch in more than a century.

In 2005, the Astros faced the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox beat the Astros in four games.

The Astros won the second, third, fifth and seventh games. In 2019, the Astros beat the Washington Nationals in the third, fourth, and fifth games, before the Nationals ultimately won the series in Game 7.

The Astros won two games – the second and fifth – before the Braves won the series in Game 6.

The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason. First played in 1903, the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball’s National League (NL) and American League (AL).

and in 1994, when the series was canceled due to the players’ strike. The best-of-seven style has been the format of all World Series except in 1903, 1919, 1920, 1921, when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff.

The Series-winning team is awarded the Commissioner’s Trophy. Players, coaches and others associated with the team are generally given World Series rings to commemorate their victory.

The winning team is traditionally invited to the White House to meet the President of the United States.

The New York Yankees of the AL have played in 40 World Series, winning 27 – the most championship appearances and most victories by any team amongst the major North American professional sports leagues. The Dodgers of the NL have the most losses with 14, while the Yankees have the most losses among AL teams with 13.

Louis Cardinals have won 11 championships, the most championships among NL clubs and second-most all-time behind the Yankees, and have made 19 total appearances, third-most among NL clubs. The Dodgers have represented the NL the most in the World Series with 21 appearances.

the Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Rays, and Colorado Rockies have all played in the Series but have never won it. The Los Angeles Angels and Washington Nationals are the only teams who have won their only World Series appearance, and the Toronto Blue Jays and Miami Marlins have won both of their World Series appearances.

The Houston Astros are the only franchise to have represented both the NL (2005) and the AL (2017, 2019, 2021, 2022), winning the Series in 2017 and 2022. The current (2023) World Series champions are the Texas Rangers.

Numbers in parentheses in the table are World Series appearances as of the date of that World Series, and are used as follows:. Source for this Table.

In the “Season(s)” column, bold years indicate winning appearances.

All teams that have participated in these were “Classic Eight” members of either the American or National League. no expansion team (created in 1961 or later) has faced the same opponent more than once in a World Series.