2021 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 2021 throughout the world.

International competition

National Team tournaments

Club team tournaments

U.S.A. domestic leagues

Wild Card Games
(ALWC, NLWC)
Division Series
(ALDS, NLDS)
League Championship Series
(ALCS, NLCS)
World Series
1 Tampa Bay 1
4 Boston 1 4 Boston 3
5 NY Yankees 0 American League4 Boston 2
2 Houston 4
2 Houston 3
3 Chicago White Sox 1
AL2 Houston 2
NL3 Atlanta 4
1 San Francisco 2
4 LA Dodgers 1 4 LA Dodgers 3
5 St. Louis 0 National League4 LA Dodgers 2
3 Atlanta 4
2 Milwaukee 1
3 Atlanta 3

Other domestic leagues

Summer leagues

Winter leagues

Awards and honors

Major League Baseball

  • Baseball Hall of Fame honors

Events

January

February

  • February 12: Major League Baseball announced its new league structure for minor league play, a structure that excluded and effectively disbanded the historic leagues between class A and AAA.
  • February 25: Spring Training Begins for all 30 teams including Pitchers and catchers

March

  • March 17: St Patricks Day

April

May

June

July

August

  • August 11: At Wrigley Field, Corbin Burnes of the Milwaukee Brewers strikes out 10 consecutive Chicago Cubs in a 10-0 Milwaukee victory. He begins the streak by striking out Frank Schwindel leading off the second inning; after he strikes out Schwindel a second time to begin the fifth, a single by Matt Duffy ends the streak. Burnes becomes the third pitcher to strike out 10 consecutive batters in a game, Tom Seaver having set the record on April 22, 1970 and Aaron Nola having tied it on June 25 of this season.
  • August 14: At Chase Field, Tyler Gilbert of the Arizona Diamondbacks no-hits the San Diego Padres 7–0 in his first Major League start. Gilbert, who had made three scoreless appearances with Arizona earlier in the season, walks three and strikes out five in pitching the third no-hitter in Diamondbacks history, and the eighth on the season, tying a single-season record set in 1884, the first year overhand pitching was allowed. Gilbert becomes the first pitcher since Bobo Holloman in 1953, and one of four overall, to pitch a no-hitter in his first Major League start. Ted Breitenstein and Bumpus Jones were the other two, having done so in 1891 and 1892 respectively.
  • August 22: Miguel Cabrera hit his 500th career home run, doing it against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. He became the 28th player to reach this mark.
  • August 19–29: The 2021 Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, is held with US-only teams due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The tournament is won by the Taylor North Little League from Taylor, Michigan.
  • August 25: The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Los Angeles Angels by a score of 10-6, snapping a 19-game losing streak. It is their second streak of 10 or more losses of the season.
  • August 27–29: Players Weekend
  • August 30: Postseason-eligible trading deadline

September

October

November

  • November 2: The Atlanta Braves won the 2021 World Series with a 7–0 win over the Houston Astros to capture their first World Series championship since 1995. Jorge Soler was named MVP of the World Series.
  • November 4: Buster Posey announces his retirement after 12 seasons with the San Francisco Giants and winning three World Series championships with the team in 2010, 2012 and 2014. He was also the 2020 comeback player of the year.
  • November 7: The 2021 Golden Glove Awards were announced winners included Paul Goldschmidt who won his fourth gold glove with the St. Louis Cardinals and Yuli Gurriel from the Houston Astros who won his first career gold glove.
  • November 11: The 2021 Sliver Slugger Awards were announced winners included Bryce Harper from the Philadelphia Phillies who won his second sliver slugger award and Shohei Ohtani from the LA Angels wins his first career sliver slugger award.
  • November 16: Kevin Cash of the Tampa Bay Rays was named American League manager of the year for the 2nd straight year while Gabe Kapler of the San Francisco Giants was named National League manager of the year.
  • November 17: The voting was close in the National League CY Young Award but Corbin Burnes took the honors over Zack Wheeler by 10 votes, while the American League Cy Young award was won by Robbie Ray.
  • November 18: Adolis Garcia was named the American League rookie of the year while Jonathan India was named the National League rookie of the year.
  • November 19: The Cleveland Indians officially become the Cleveland Guardians.
  • (Tentative) – Deadline to file lists for all Major and Minor League levels
  • Immediately after World Series: Eligible players become free agents.
    • Two days after start of the last game of the World Series: Trading window reopens.
    • Fifth day after end of World Series: Deadline for clubs to make qualifying offers to their eligible players who become free agents.
    • Sixth day after end of World Series: First day on which free agents may sign contracts with a club other than their former clubs.
    • 12th day after end of World Series: Last day for article XX (B) free agents to accept qualifying offer from a former club (midnight ET).
  • Sensational two-way player Shohei Ohtani was named the American League MVP while Bryce Harper was named the National League MVP.
  • November 22: The ballot for the National Baseball Hall of Fame class of 2022 was announced, with 13 players appearing on the ballot for the first time.

December

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Deaths

January

  • January 8 – Tommy Lasorda, 93, Hall of Fame manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1976 to 1996 who won World Series titles in 1981 and 1988.
  • January 19 – Don Sutton, 75, Hall of Fame pitcher who won 324 games for seven major league teams over 23 seasons with 3,574 strikeouts, later a color commentator for Atlanta Braves games on TBS.
  • January 22 – Hank Aaron, 86, Hall of Fame right fielder who played 22 seasons for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers from 1954 to 1976 whose 755 home runs stood as the record until 2007.

February

  • February 3 – Wayne Terwilliger, 96, second baseman who played 12 seasons for five major league teams from 1949 to 1960.
  • February 16 – Lew Krausse Jr., 77, pitcher who played twelve seasons for five major league teams from 1961 to 1974.
  • February 20 – Stan Williams, 84, pitcher who played 14 seasons for six major league teams from 1958 to 1972.

March

April

  • April 1 – Ken Reitz, 69, third baseman who played 11 seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates from 1972 to 1982 while winning a Gold Glove Award in 1975 and making the National League All-Star team in 1980.
  • April 7 – Jack Smith, 85, pitcher who played for two major league teams from 1962 to 1964.
  • April 20 – Tom Robson, 75, First Baseman who played for the Texas Rangers from September 1974 to September 1975.
  • April 22 – Adrian Garrett, 78, catcher, first baseman and outfielder and played for 5 different major league teams from 1966 to 1976 and for a pro team in Japan from 1977 to 1979.

May

June

  • June 3 – Tim Tolman, 65, utility player who spent seven seasons with two teams: five years with the Houston Astros and two years with the Detroit Tigers.
  • June 11 – Art Ditmar, 92, pitcher who played nine seasons for two major league teams with the New York Yankees and the Kansas City Athletics from 1954 to 1962.
  • June 11 – Mudcat Grant, 85, pitcher who played 14 seasons from 1958 to 1971 who also won an American League-best 21 games for the 1965 pennant-winning Minnesota Twins.
  • June 30 – Yasunori Oshima, 70, Nippon Professional Baseball player and manager.

July

  • July 7 – Ted Wieand, 88, pitcher for 2 seasons who played from 1958 to 1960 with the Cincinnati Reds and spent the last four seasons in the Minor Leagues.
  • July 10 – Dick Tidrow, 74, pitcher for 13 seasons played for four major league teams from 1972 to 1984 with the NY Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox and NY Mets and won 2 World Series with the NY Yankees before retiring in May 1984.
  • July 22 – Tim Talton, 82, catcher who played for the Kansas City A's in 1966 and 1967 before the franchise moved to Oakland for the 1968 season.

August

September

October

November

December


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