I've never liked that setup in baseball even though I understand it makes for less travel than the other sports. But for the team that starts on the road, all they have to do is split the first 2 games, and they have a chance to wrap up the series at home because the next 3 games are at their ballpark. There may not even be a 6th or 7th game at the team with home field advantage's ballpark. That happened in the 2006 World Series when the Cardinals split the first 2 games in Detroit and then won all 3 home games afterwards and the series never did go back to Detroit cuz the Tigers were throwing the ball all over the field In St Louis. So technically, the Cardinals had more home games than the Tigers.