NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball dropped its plan to start the World Series early if both league championship series are short, announcing Tuesday that this year's Fall Classic will start Oct. 24.

MLB last year said Game 1 would move up from Oct. 25 to Oct. 22 if the championship series ended by Oct. 19, when both leagues were scheduled to be through Game 5. But the New York Mets won Game 5 of the National League Championship Series before losing to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 6.

Since the LCS expanded to best-of-seven in 1985, both leagues ended in four or five games in 1989, 2001, 2002, 2014 and 2022. Last year was the first in which MLB announced a flexible schedule.

Game 7 of this year's World Series will be on Nov. 1. The World Series ended in November in 2001, 2009, 2010,

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