Question: What is the longest win streak, in the history of the league, that includes the team with the most titles, from the event preceding the awarding of the MLB MVP?

In the American League, the New York Yankees have played in 40 World Series and won 27, the Philadelphia / Kansas City / Oakland Athletics have played in 14 and won 9, and the Boston Red Sox have played in 12 and won 8, including the first World Series. In the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals have appeared in 19 and won 11, the New York / San Francisco Giants have played in 20 and won 8, the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers have appeared in 18 and won 6, and the Cincinnati Reds have appeared in 9 and won 5. <SEP> The BBWAA began by polling three writers in each league city in 1938, reducing that number to two per league city in 1961. MVP voting takes place before the postseason, but the results are not announced until after the World Series. The BBWAA does not offer a clear - cut definition of what ``most valuable ''means, instead leaving the judgment to the individual voters. <SEP> the patriots have appeared in the super bowl nine times in franchise history, the most of any team, seven of them since the arrival of head coach bill belichick and quarterback tom brady in 2000. the patriots have since become one of the most successful teams in nfl history, winning 14 afc east titles in 16 seasons since 2001, without a losing season in that period. the franchise has since set numerous notable records, including most wins in a ten - year period (126, in 2003 -- 2012), an undefeated 16 - game regular season in 2007, the longest winning streak consisting of regular season and playoff games in nfl history (a 21 - game streak from october 2003 to october 2004), and the most consecutive division titles won by a team in nfl history (won eight straight division titles from 2009 to 2016). the team owns the record for most super bowls reached (seven) and won (five) by a head coach -- quarterback tandem. the patriots are tied with the 49ers and cowboys for the second most super bowl wins with five. the steelers are in front with six. <SEP> in major league baseball (mlb), the wild - card teams are the two teams in each of the two leagues (american and national) that have qualified for the postseason despite failing to win their division. both teams in each league possess the two best winning percentages in their respective league after the three division winners. the wild card was first instituted in mlb in 1994, with one wild - card team per league advancing to the division series in the postseason to face a division winner. in 2012, the system was modified to add a second wild - card team per league and pit each league's wild - card teams against each other in a play - in game -- the mlb wild - card game -- the winner of which would then advance to the division series and play the team with the best record. this system ensures that the team with the second - best record in each league, after the three division winners and the team with the first - best record in the league that is a non-division winner, will also get a postseason berth, even if it is n't a division champion. <SEP> The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one of two major league clubs based in New York City; the other club is the National League (NL)'s New York Mets. In the season, the club began play in the AL as the Baltimore Orioles (no relation to the modern Baltimore Orioles). Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchased the franchise that had ceased operations and moved it to New York City, renaming the club the New York Highlanders. The Highlanders were officially renamed the Yankees in . <SEP> The second - longest winning streak is 22 by the 2017 Cleveland Indians, which is still ongoing and the American League record. The 1916 New York Giants hold the record for the longest unbeaten streak in MLB history at 26 wins. The Chicago Cubs franchise has won 21 games twice, once in 1880 when they were the Chicago White Stockings and once in 1935.