The pennant is another term for winning your league championship, either ALCS or NLCS. This comes from back when the MLB had fewer teams, 8-16 teams total. They would only have a championship series instead of having so many rounds in the playoffs like today. When you win the American League Championship Series or National League Championship Series.
In baseball, to "win the pennant" is to finish the season in first place of a division or league.
When a team makes it to the championship. Like in baseball a team wins the pennant when they make it to the world series.
The pennant race is a baseball term used to describe the time period towards the end of the year, around mid-late august and on to the playoffs. The pennant is the name for the championship of the division, whether it be the national league or the American league, and the race is all the games leading up to the World Series that determine who will represent each league.
Boston Red Sox
Chicago White Sox.
The Cincinnati Reds.
pennant
To win the National League or the American League Championship in major league baseball. The two pennant winners face off in the World Series
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Paul G. Zinn has written: 'The major league pennant races of 1916' -- subject(s): Major League Baseball (Organization), Baseball, History 'The major league pennant races of 1916' -- subject(s): Baseball, History, Major League Baseball (Organization)
There is no antonym for pennant
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