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The 1981 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1981 season.The 78th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees and the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
This series was a reverse of the 1978 World Series, which the Yankees won in six games after trailing two games to none. The Yankees held off a late rally by the Dodgers to take Game 1 by a 5–3 score, and Tommy John and Goose Gossage helped shut out the Dodgers in Game 2 to go up 2–0 in the series headed to Los Angeles.
So when the Dodgers lost the first two games of the 1981 World Series in Yankee Stadium, there was no panic, no sense of dread, on the five-hour flight from New York to Los Angeles for Games 3, 4 ...
Toggle 1981 World Series subsection. 7.1 Game 1. 7.2 Game 2. 7.3 Game 3. 7.4 Game 4. 7.5 Game 5. ... thanks to a ninth-inning home run by Rick Monday in Game 5. Game 1
1981 World Series Dodgers 4, Yankees 2 It was downhill for the Yanks after winning Games 1 and 2 at home, including Dave Winfield’s 1-for-22 series, and Steinbrenner’s supposed elevator fight ...
Former Dodger All-Star Steve Garvey recalls the team's victory over the New York Yankees in 1981, but his bid for U.S. Senate against Rep. Adam Schiff won't end as happily.
The 1981 Major League Baseball season culminated with the Los Angeles Dodgers defeating the New York Yankees in the World Series, capturing the franchise's fifth World Series title. The season had a players' strike, which lasted from June 12 to July 31, and split the season into two halves. Teams that won their division in each half of the ...
Cey played in the 1981 World Series, helping the Dodgers to four straight victories after losing their first two games, including his return for the clinching Game 6 after being hit in the head by a wild Goose Gossage fastball, and helped off the field in Game 5. [7]