The 2002 Major League Baseball season finished with two wild-card teams contesting the World Series; the Anaheim Angels defeated the San Francisco Giants in seven games for the World Series championship.
It was the first title in Angels team history.
*Denotes walk-off ±hosted the MLB All Star Game This was the second season that national TV coverage was split between ESPN and Fox Sports.
ESPN and ESPN2 aired selected weeknight and Sunday night games, and selected Division Series playoff games.
With the purchase of Fox Family by ESPN's parent company Disney, and its subsequent rebranding to ABC Family, the channel was allowed to continue airing selected Division Series games with ESPN-produced telecasts just for this season.