Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The 1959 National League tie-breaker series was a best-of-three playoff series at the conclusion of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1959 regular season to decide the winner of the National League (NL) pennant. The games were played on September 28 and 29, 1959, between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Milwaukee Braves. The first game was played at Milwaukee County Stadium and the second took place at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The playoff series was necessary after both teams finished the season with identical win–loss records of 86–68. The Dodgers won a coin flip late in the season that gave them home field advantage for the series, although the series did not reach a third game.Following a rain-delayed start, the Dodgers won Game 1 by a close 3–2 score, with a home run by John Roseboro providing the margin of victory. The Dodgers then won the series and the pennant with another close victory in Game 2; they came back from a three-run deficit to tie the game in the ninth and then ultimately defeated the Braves, 6–5, in extra innings. This victory advanced the Dodgers to the 1959 World Series, in which they defeated the Chicago White Sox, four games to two. In baseball statistics, the tie-breaker series counted as the 155th and 156th regular-season games for both teams, with all events in the series added to regular-season statistics."@en }
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- 1959_National_League_tie-breaker_series abstract "The 1959 National League tie-breaker series was a best-of-three playoff series at the conclusion of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1959 regular season to decide the winner of the National League (NL) pennant. The games were played on September 28 and 29, 1959, between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Milwaukee Braves. The first game was played at Milwaukee County Stadium and the second took place at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The playoff series was necessary after both teams finished the season with identical win–loss records of 86–68. The Dodgers won a coin flip late in the season that gave them home field advantage for the series, although the series did not reach a third game.Following a rain-delayed start, the Dodgers won Game 1 by a close 3–2 score, with a home run by John Roseboro providing the margin of victory. The Dodgers then won the series and the pennant with another close victory in Game 2; they came back from a three-run deficit to tie the game in the ninth and then ultimately defeated the Braves, 6–5, in extra innings. This victory advanced the Dodgers to the 1959 World Series, in which they defeated the Chicago White Sox, four games to two. In baseball statistics, the tie-breaker series counted as the 155th and 156th regular-season games for both teams, with all events in the series added to regular-season statistics.".