# Have any World Series games ever been played in November? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-world-series-games-ever-been-played-in-november/378196 "2006-10-28T01:42:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-world-series-games-ever-been-played-in-november/378196/1 "2006-10-28T01:42:06Z")
Has the baseball season ever been strung out so long that the final play of the World Series occurred in Turkey Month? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-world-series-games-ever-been-played-in-november/378196/2 "2006-10-28T01:57:19Z")
Yep, 2001. No baseball for 6 days after 9/11, which pushed the start of the World Series back by a week, starting on October 27 (that’d be 5 years ago today.) It went all seven games, so games 5, 6, and 7 (won by New York, Arizona, and Arizona in their respective parks) were played in November. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-world-series-games-ever-been-played-in-november/378196/3 "2006-10-28T01:59:17Z")
Thanks! Armed with that knowledge, I read the Wikipedia article which avers that those were the only non-exhibition games ever played in November by MLB. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-world-series-games-ever-been-played-in-november/378196/4 "2006-10-28T02:08:32Z")
I remember that Series because it was the Yankees in the Series after 9/11 (so of course the way the coverage was done was even more over-the-top–in retrospect, at least–than the MNF game in New Orleans earlier this year) and my roommate in college was a huge Yankees fan, so of course the TV was on for every single game. And in 2003. And I watched all of 2002 and 2004, but said roommate gave up after the ALDS and ALCS respectively. (Actually, that’s not fair. He was a big baseball fan anyway, so we watched all the games, but he would turn the TV off in frustration when the Yankees were losing.) You know, I’m not sure which of those series was the hardest on him. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-world-series-games-ever-been-played-in-november/378196/5 "2006-10-28T15:48:30Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] Yep, 2001. No baseball for 6 days after 9/11, which pushed the start of the World Series back by a week, starting on October 27 (that’d be 5 years ago today.) It went all seven games, so games 5, 6, and 7 (won by New York, Arizona, and Arizona in their respective parks) were played in November. [/QUOTE] Not only that, but game 5 started late and ran long so they were still playing when midnight rolled around. The scoreboard flashed _Welcome to November Baseball_ when it did. We get November baseball every year with the [Arizona Fall League](http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/app/index.jsp?sid=l119) but that’s not the Bigs so it doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-any-world-series-games-ever-been-played-in-november/378196/6 "2006-10-28T16:39:00Z")
[QUOTE=DesertDog] Not only that, but game 5 started late and ran long so they were still playing when midnight rolled around. The scoreboard flashed _Welcome to November Baseball_ when it did. [/QUOTE] And so, when Derek Jeter hit a walkoff home run to win that game, people started calling him “Mr. November.”