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The 1962 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the fifth for the team in Southern California, and the 73rd for the franchise in the National League. After spending the previous four seasons at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum , they began the season by opening Dodger Stadium , the team's new ballpark.
The 1962 schedule consisted of 162 games for all teams in the American League and National League, each of which had ten teams. ... Per game; Los Angeles Dodgers [7 ...
The 1962 National League tie-breaker series was a best-of-three playoff series that extended Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1962 regular season to determine the winner of the National League (NL) pennant. The games were played from October 1 to 3, 1962, between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. The Giants won the series, two ...
Like the Yankees and Cardinals, the Dodgers have not lost 100 games in a season since World War I, with their worst record being in 1992 with 63 wins and 99 losses. The following year, the Dodgers finished at .500 for the only time in 141 seasons. The most wins the Dodgers ever had in a season was 111, which they did in 2022.
The loss is the first of a catastrophic five-game slide that sees the Dodgers fritter away a two-game lead over the San Francisco Giants by the end of the National League's regular-season schedule. September 29 – Hank Bauer quits as manager of the ninth-place Kansas City Athletics before owner Charles O. Finley can fire him.
Wills put up excellent numbers in 12 seasons with the Dodgers. His finest season came in 1962, when Wills hit .299/.343/.373, with 104 stolen bases. ... MLB played two All-Star games in 1961 and ...
In 1963, KPIX pre-empted the July 13 game between the San Francisco Giants–Philadelphia Phillies (at 10:15 a.m.), [18] and the Los Angeles Dodgers-Phillies game on July 14 (at 9:30 a.m.); in 1964, the station pre-empted the Kansas City Athletics–New York Yankees game on May 16 (at 10:45) and the Milwaukee Braves–St. Louis Cardinals game ...
The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate on the field after defeating the New York Mets in Game 6 of the NLCS for the 2024 MLB playoffs to advance to the World Series at Dodger Stadium on Oct 20, 2024.