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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 regular season ended on October 3, with the San Francisco Giants and New York Yankees as the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Giants defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in a regular season best-of-three tiebreaker, for the National League title in three games, after both teams finished ...
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 ...
Los Angeles Dodgers: 1958: MLB NL 7th 71 83 .461 21 1959: MLB ‡ NL * 1st 88 68 .564 — Won World Series 4–2 ‡ Larry Sherry 1960: MLB NL 4th 82 72 .532 13 Frank Howard 1961: MLB NL 2nd 89 65 .578 4 1962: MLB NL 2nd 102 63 .618 1 Maury Wills Don Drysdale 1963: MLB ‡ NL * 1st 99 63 .611 — Won World Series 4–0 ‡
The ChiSox then trade Carey to the Dodgers for infielder Ramón Conde and minor-league outfielder Jim Koranda. Carey, 30, a three-time World Series champion with the New York Yankees, reports to the pennant-contending Dodgers and appears in 53 games for them in 1962, his final MLB season.
Since 2021, MLB has implemented NFL-style flexible scheduling procedures for the final four weeks of each season for ESPN Sunday night and Fox Thursday or Saturday games on national television. Networks release their schedules without September games listed so to ensure games with playoff implications are broadcast on national television.
The 1962 Major League Baseball expansion was the formation of two new Major League Baseball (MLB) teams for the 1962 season.The Houston Colt .45s (later renamed the Astros) and the New York Mets were added to the National League (NL), becoming the 19th and 20th teams in MLB's two leagues.
The 1962 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1962 season. The 59th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the defending American League (AL) and World Series champion New York Yankees against the National League (NL) champion San Francisco Giants. The Yankees won the series ...