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The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
The Dodgers narrowly defeated the Expos in five games, returning to the World Series for the fourth time in eight years. The first two games in Los Angeles were split between both teams – the Dodgers won Game 1 by a 5–1 score, while Montreal's Ray Burris pitched a shutout in Game 2 as the Expos won 3–0, evening the series headed to Montreal.
This is the most recent World Series that a team won after losing the first two games on the road, the next previous instance being the Yankees' victory over the Dodgers in the 1978 World Series. This was the last meeting between teams from New York City and Los Angeles for a major professional sports championship until the Los Angeles Kings ...
Here is every World Series the Dodgers and Yankees have played each other and the series result (winner in bold): 1941 World Series: Yankees 4 , Dodgers 1 1947 World Series: Yankees 4 , Dodgers 3
The Yankees held on for a 6-5 Game 1 win, but the Dodgers won the Series, with Johnny Podres throwing an eight-hit shutout in a 2-0 Game 7 victory that gave Brooklyn its first championship after ...
Hershiser spent the first 12 years (1983-1994) of his career with the Dodgers and won the World Series MVP in 1988 before playing for Cleveland, the New York Mets and the San Francisco Giants.
These historical rivals would meet each other again in the World Series in 1981 and 2024, which were both won by the Dodgers. This was the last time the Yankees won the World Series until 1996, where they defeated the Atlanta Braves in six games to end an 18-year championship drought, which also marked the start of a dynasty.
The Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers have appeared in the World Series 22 times, while the New York/San Francisco Giants have appeared in the World Series 20 times. The Dodgers and Giants are tied with (8) World Series titles. When the two teams were based in New York, the Giants won five World Series championships, and the Dodgers one.