Philadephia Phillies Win 2008 World Series

The Philadelphia Phillies won the best-of-seven World Series against the American League’s Tampa Bay Rays, four games to one. The Phillies prevailed in the first suspended game in World Series history, with terrible rain and wind, Game 5 had been stopped in the middle of the sixth inning, Monday night, with the Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays tied at 2-all. When play resumed , Philadelphia got a go-ahead run in their half of the sixth inning. But the Rays came right back to tie it at 3-all, on a solo home run by Rocco Baldelli in the top of the seventh.

For the Tampa Bay Rays, even though they lost the World Series, this season was a huge achievement. The franchise has only been in existence since 1998 and, until this season, the Rays had never even had a winning year, finishing last in their division nine of the 10 previous seasons before this one, when they beat the  Boston Red Sox for first place. For the Phillies it was only their second baseball championship in more than a hundred years of existence. Their only other World Series title came in 1980.