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The Phillies defeated the Dodgers in five games in 2008 en route to their 2008 World Series title. This match-up is the most frequent in the history of the NLCS (as of 2009) tied with the Pirates vs. Reds. This was the first time in LCS history that two franchises met in consecutive League Championship Series on separate occasions (1977–1978 ...
The Dodgers and Phillies won their respective series—the Dodgers three games to none and the Phillies three games to one. The Phillies defeated the Dodgers in the NLCS by a series score of 4–1, and lost the 2009 World Series to the American League champion New York Yankees, 4–2.
Both teams split the first two games at Dodger Stadium. When the series shifted to Philadelphia, the Phillies blew out the Dodgers in Game 3, Phillies' Jimmy Rollins hit a two-out walk-off two-run double in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 4 to take a 3–1 series lead, and then blew out the Dodgers again in Game 5 to secure the pennant.
The 2009 Los Angeles Dodgers season saw the team defend their National League West title while earning the best record in the National League, and marked the 50th anniversary of their 1959 World Series Championship. The Dodgers reached the NLCS for the second straight season only to once more fall short in five games against the Philadelphia ...
The 2009 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2009 season.As the 105th [1] edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff contested between the Philadelphia Phillies, champions of the National League (NL) and defending World Series champions, and the New York Yankees, champions of the American League (AL).
In 1978, the second consecutive Dodgers-Yankees battle averaged a record 44.2 million viewers for the six-game series, its 32.8 rating nearly quadrupling the 4.7 rating pulled in 2023.
The Phillies began their 2009 season in front of a sold-out crowd of 44,532 at Citizens Bank Park on April 5, playing against the Atlanta Braves. [33] The Phillies, originally scheduled to play in the afternoon of April 6, earned the distinction of playing the opening game of the entire 2009 Major League Baseball season after winning the 2008 ...
Schwarber led off the game with a homer. The second was a three-run, 444-foot blast that came in the top of the sixth. That proved to be a pivotal stretch for the Phillies, who scored five runs in ...