Has any MLB team came back from a 3 0 deficit?

Like something out of a storybook, the Red Sox not only ended their 86-year World Series title drought, they did it after forging a comeback from a 3-0 series deficit against the Yankees.
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How many MLB teams have come back from a 3-1 deficit?

No Major League Baseball team has ever come back from a 3-0 World Series deficit. By 2016, only five teams had ever even come back from a 3-1 deficit. So when the Chicago Cubs lost Game 4 of the 2016 World Series to the Cleveland Guardians, it wouldn't have felt wrong to lose hope.
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What is the only baseball team to come back from 3-0?

October 21, 2004 • The Boston Red Sox defeat the New York Yankees 10-3, winning the American League Championship Series with a stirring comeback and advancing to their first World Series since 1986. The Sox are the first team ever to win a best-of-seven series after losing the first three games. Hear NPR's Tom Goldman.
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Has any team overcome 3-0 deficit?

How many times has an NBA team come back from a 3-0 deficit in the playoffs? The unfortunate answer is zero times. While no teams have come back to win after being down 3-0, there are three teams that have rallied to tie up a series 3-3 and went on to lose Game 7.
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What teams have came back from a 3-0 deficit in MLB?

Outside of hockey, only one other North American professional sports team has come back from a 3-0 series deficit. That is, the Boston Red Sox, who came back against the New York Yankees in 2004 in the Major League Baseball semifinals.
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What is the biggest deficit in MLB history?

Baseball (MLB).

The modern record (i.e., post-1900) for margin of victory was set in 2007, when the Texas Rangers defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 30–3.
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What is the biggest comeback in MLB playoff history?

The Philadelphia A's set the mark for the biggest postseason comeback win in 1929, both in terms of largest deficit (eight) and lowest win expectancy (0.5%) overcome.
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Has a team ever choked a 3-0 lead?

Has any NBA team come back from a 3-0 series deficit? No. The NBA is the only major American sports league in which no team has come back from such a series deficit in the playoffs. In fact, only 3 series have gone to 7 games after a team has taken a 3-0 lead.
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Which was the only team to come back from a 3 1 deficit to win the NBA Finals?

The Celtics became the first team in NBA history to recover from a 3-1 deficit, and they went on to beat the LA Lakers and win the NBA title.
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Has any team ever blown a 3-0 lead?

In the NBA's 75-year history, 146 teams have faced a 3-0 series deficit in a seven-game postseason series. Of those teams, 14 have won at least two games while three have won three straight games to force a decisive Game 7. None have come back to win the series.
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How many times has a team comeback from 3 0 in baseball?

In the history of these leagues, teams that were down 3–0 in a series have come back to win the series five times; four times in the NHL and once in MLB. The most recent example is the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL in the 2014 Stanley Cup playoffs.
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Has there ever been a 0 0 baseball game?

In the American League, the longest 0–0 game was played between the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers on July 16, 1909. The game was called after 18 innings due to darkness at Bennett Park in Detroit.
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Has any MLB team been no-hit 3 times in a season?

The club has been no-hit twice as the Blues, twice as the Naps and 11 times as the Indians. Only the Giants (16), Braves (17) and Phillies and Dodgers (19 each) have been no-hit more than Cleveland. No team has ever been no-hit three times in the same season.
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What teams have Lost a 3 1 lead?

All 3-1 Series Deficit Comebacks in the NBA
  • 1968 Boston Celtics. ...
  • 1970 Los Angeles Lakers. ...
  • 1979 Washington Bullets. ...
  • 1981 Boston Celtics. ...
  • 1995 Houston Rockets. ...
  • 1997 Miami Heat. ...
  • 2003 Detroit Pistons. ...
  • 2006 Phoenix Suns.
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Has a team ever forced a Game 7 down 3 0?

In the NBA's 75-year history, 146 teams have faced a 3-0 series deficit in a seven-game postseason series. Of those teams, 14 have won at least two games while three have won three straight games to force a decisive Game 7. None have come back to win the series.
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Can you go undefeated with a tie?

NFL undefeated seasons (with ties) before 1932

Until the development of a playoff system in the NFL in 1932, there were four teams who completed seasons undefeated, but with one or more tied games: the 1920 Akron Pros, the 1922 Canton Bulldogs, the 1923 Canton Bulldogs, and the 1929 Green Bay Packers.
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Has any team come back from 3 1?

In the history of these leagues, teams that were down 3–1 in a series have come back to win the series 58 times; 14 times in MLB, 13 times in the NBA, and 31 times in the NHL. The most recent instance was accomplished by the New York Rangers of the NHL in the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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Who has the biggest comeback win?

Biggest Regular-Season Comebacks
  • 33 Points: Minnesota Vikings 39, Indianapolis Colts, 36 OT (Dec. 17, 2022) ...
  • 28 Points: San Francisco 49ers 38, New Orleans Saints, 35 OT (Dec. 7, 1980) ...
  • 26 Points: Buffalo Bills 37, Indianapolis Colts 35 (Sept. 21, 1997) ...
  • 24 Points: 15 teams Tied.
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What is the largest 9th inning comeback in MLB history?

That got us thinking: What is the largest come-from-behind victory in the final frame in big league history? Well, it appears to have happened on April 25, 1901. Down 13-4 in the bottom of the ninth, the Detroit Tigers came back to beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 14-13.
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What is the biggest blown lead in baseball?

The 11-run blown lead stands to this day as the biggest blown lead in a National League game, though this mark was bettered by the Cleveland Indians, who came back from a 14-2 deficit against the Mariners to win 15-14 on August 5, 2001. It all happened 44 years ago today.
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What is the rarest baseball occurrence?

The rarest type of triple play, and one of the rarest events of any kind in baseball, is for a single fielder to complete all three outs. There have only been 15 unassisted triple plays in MLB history, making this feat rarer than a perfect game.
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What is the lowest win percentage in MLB history?

The 1899 Cleveland Spiders own the worst single-season record of all time (minimum 120 games) and for all eras, finishing at 20–134 (.130 percentage) in the final year of the National League's 12-team era in the 1890s; for comparison, this projects to 21–141 under the current 162-game schedule, and Pythagorean ...
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Has any MLB team lost 100 games?

Here's a glance at who leads the list of most 100-loss seasons since 1961: Washington Senators/Texas Rangers (7): 1961 (61-100); 1962 (60-101); 1963 (56-106); 1964 (62-100); 1972 (54-100); 1973 (57-105); and 2021 (60-102).
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Has a no-hitter ever lost?

On April 23, 1964, Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt . 45s became the first pitcher to throw a nine-inning no-hitter and lose. In fact, he is still the only individual to throw an official (nine-inning) no-hitter and lose.
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Has there ever been a 3 pitch 3 out inning?

Overall, there have been eight instances of a three-pitch, three-out inning since the start of 2015 according to Elias. In that same span, there have been 22 immaculate innings.
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