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The Only Major League Baseball (MLB) Team

Given the statement, name the only MLB team which fits the clue.
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
Identify the team name (i.e. Orioles), not the city associated with each clue.
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The only MLB team that ...
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has a 34 foot difference between the height of the outfield fence at the left field foul pole and the right field foul pole.
Red Sox
had a 107-year drought between World Series championships
Cubs
has a pool beyond the right field fence that can be used by fans during the game.
Diamondbacks
had never had a pitcher pitch a no-hitter, until Joe Musgrove accomplished the feat in 2021.
Padres
is based in Canada.
Blue Jays
had players intentionally lose a World Series
White Sox
removed the satanic reference from their team name in 2008.
Rays
has a white elephant team logo on its jerseys.
Athletics
has never played in the World Series.
Mariners
cheated for several seasons by using an extensive sign-stealing scheme replete with trashcan banging.
Astros
has won the World Series on a game 7 walk-off home run.
Pirates
lost the first 21 games of a season.
Orioles
had a team owner who was also the MLB commissioner and orchestrated the transfer of the team from the American League to the National League.
Brewers
has been based in two different countries.
Nationals
has won the World Series representing 3 different cities.
Braves
as much as they hate to admit it, started play in 1901 as the Baltimore Orioles before relocating to their current city in 1903.
Yankees
has lost the Worlds Series a record 14 times.
Dodgers
is US-based and has won both World Series it has participated in
Marlins
has been partially owned by a U.S. president.
Rangers
has won two World Series in their current city thanks to one of the largest home-field advantages in MLB history - winning all 8 home games and losing all 6 road games in those two series.
Twins
didn't finish last in their division until 1952, which was 51 years after their founding in 1901 as one of the eight charter American League franchises.
Tigers
was once partially owned by Bob Hope, and which broke the color barrier in the American League with Larry Doby in 1947 and the legendary Satchel Paige in 1948.
Guardians
traded a player for himself when, in their debut year of 1962, they acquired Harry Chiti from the Indians for a "player to be named later," who turned out to be Chiti himself when they sent him back to the Indians a few days later.
Mets
has retired the "uniform number" of a singing cowboy actor.
Angels
has had 3 brothers playing the outfield at the same time when Felipe, Matty & Jesus Alou took the field on September 15, 1963.
Giants
has retained the same team name since joining the National League in 1890. In fact, it is the oldest continuously run, single-name, single-city franchise in American professional sports.
Phillies
holds the Major League record for season attendance with 4,483,350 fans attending their home games which were held in a football stadium during their inaugural season in 1993.
Rockies
still plays in the city where they faced their crosstown rivals in the 1944 World Series. Their opponents moved to Baltimore in 1954.
Cardinals
was named for a Midwest livestock show.
Royals
had a pitcher pitch no hitters in consecutive starts when Johnny Vander Meer did it in 1938.
Reds
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