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The 2017 World Series Fun Facts was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2017 season. The 113th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the American League (AL) champion Houston Astros. It was sponsored by the Internet television service YouTube TV and officially known as the 2017 World Series presented by YouTube TV. The series was played between October 24 and November 1.

The Astros defeated the Dodgers, four games to three, to win their first World Series in franchise history, also becoming the first team from Texas to do so. It was the first time since 2001–2002 when two consecutive World Series went to seven games. Both teams set a World Series record with a combined total of 25 home runs throughout the entire series, including a team record 15 home runs by the Astros, and hit a combined total of eight home runs in Game 2 to set the single game World Series mark. Houston outfielder George Springer was named the World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) after hitting five home runs in the series to tie a World Series record with Reggie Jackson in 1977 and Chase Utley in 2009.

This was the first World Series in which home-field advantage was decided by the regular season record of the two pennant winners. From 1903 to 2002, home-field advantage had been determined by coin flips and by alternating between the AL and NL. From 2003 to 2016, it was determined by results from that season's All-Star Game, when it was awarded to the team from the winning league. The Dodgers earned home-field advantage over the Astros. The series was played in a 2–3–2 format, with the Dodgers hosting Games 1, 2, 6, and 7; and the Astros hosting Games 3, 4, and 5.

A 2019 investigation by MLB found that the Astros had been illegally using technology to steal signs from opposing teams during the 2017 and 2018 seasons. This resulted in the Astros being fined $5 million and docked several top draft picks. While Astros Manager A. J. Hinch and General Manager Jeff Luhnow were suspended for one year (and later fired by the organization), MLB commissioner Rob Manfred opted against punishing any of the players involved or revoking the Astros' World Series title. In 2020, ESPN said of the 2017 World Series: “At the time, it was an extraordinary series between probably the best pair of World Series teams in history... But after the Astros' systematic cheating scheme was revealed, this whole series has a whiff of 1919 to it. The Astros would go on to receive an * on their 2017 title https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/columnists/bob-wojnowski/2020/01/15/houston-asterisks-baseball-fans-get-scammed-again/4477271002/. “We don't really know what we saw, or who would have won if it had been played straight up. Instead, it produced a champion we all regret having felt happy for.” All credit to this article to 2017 World Series Wikipedia Page All Rights To Them.