2015 MLB Postseason, World Series Baseball Designs

Major League Baseball and Rawlings have unveiled the baseball designs which will be used during the 2015 Postseason. The 2015 baseballs are the first postseason designs to bear the signature of new Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred.

For the Wild Card Game, Division Series, and League Championship Series the balls will all share the same design, all writing on the ball is silver with “2015 POSTSEASON” as the main inscription (replacing what would normally read “MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL” during the regular season), below Commissioner Manfred’s signature is the 2015 Postseason logo also in silver.

During the World Series the design changes, now all in gold the text reads “2015 WORLD SERIES”, the series logo in gold below the signature.

Major League Baseball has used special designs on their baseballs for every World Series game played since 1978. All logos and lettering has been gold on these World Series designs since 2000, prior to that the colours alternated from year-to-year AL-hosted/odd-year series were blue, NL/even were red.

Postseason (non-World Series) balls were used from 1996-1999 with a special design for each round and league. When the two leagues merged in 2000 they simply used standard MLB baseballs in the first two rounds. The introduction of the Wild Card round in 2012 brought the Postseason ball design back but now with only one used for the three league playoff rounds.