Interleague Games
In American professional baseball, Interleague Games refers to games between the two major leagues - American and National League - during the regular season.
These games have only been part of the Major League Baseball schedule since 1997. Until then, the annual MLB All-Star Game (a game between two national league teams) and the World Series were the only official occasions for inter-league games.
The designated hitter rule is not this just like the World Series in American League stadiums for both teams for use in National League stadiums contrast for both teams.
In Japanese professional baseball , the Interleague Series ( Japanese 交流 戦 , kōryūsen ) was introduced in 2005. It initially consisted of 36, since 2007 24 games between the teams of the Central League and the Pacific League and lasts from mid-May to mid-June. As in MLB, the DH rule is applied according to the host's league membership. With the exception of 2009, the teams in the Pacific League were more successful in the Interleague Games than the teams in the Central League from 2005 to 2011 .
In the Caribbean, the Interliga series is played between the winter leagues from Puerto Rico ( PRBL ) and the Dominican Republic ( LIDOM ) .