Whether you love it or hate it, interleague play is here to stay.
For the past 17 years, the MLB schedule has pitted teams from the American League and National League against each other in games that count, not merely exhibitions that mean little in the grand scheme of things.
While the premise has it's detractors, it has given fans the chance to see their favorite teams take on their "hometown" rivals.
Granted, not every team has a geographic rival in the other league, and that has resulted in some "rivalries" that seem forced and are relatively mundane.
Not all rivalries are created equal.
It's true that Houston's move to the American League robbed us of one of the better interleague rivalries, as the Astros and Texas Rangers are now division foes.
Yet for the vast majority of fans around baseball, games against their favorite team's "hometown rival" are as exciting and exhilarating—if not more so—than games against traditional division rivals.
Which of these "hometown rivalries" is the best of the bunch?
Let's take a look.
*All head-to-head records courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.
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