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.