Professional sports teams in Arizona Professional sports teams in Arizona Arizona has four Major League sports teams, all within the Phoenix metropolitan area, plus a professional WNBA team. The Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play their home games at Chase Field. They were founded in 1998 as an expansion team in the National League's West Division of the MLB. They became the fastest expansion team to win a World Series title (four seasons) when they beat three-time defending champ the New York Yankees in 2001. The Phoenix Suns play in the NBA's Pacific Division and are the only
Baseball in the Philippines began to play the game when he was a kid. With ex-NFL quarterback Tim Tebow's transtition into baseball and since he is as of 2018 now playing for the New York Mets AA affiliate Binghamton Rumble Ponies, if called into the Mets team in the coming 2019 season he will be the first Filipino in many years to join the ranks of the major league teams. Baseball in the Philippines Baseball was introduced in the Philippines during the American colonial period. Baseball was a national pastime in the country. The sport has become a re-emerging sport in the recent years.