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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 ...
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.
2009 Phillies stellar set-up man Ryan Madson was traded from Washington to the Dodgers in 2018 in another waiver trade. To help bolster a fatigued pitching staff, the Dodgers signed 2008 NLCS MVP and SoCal native Cole Hamels in-season in August 2021, though he would never throw a pitch for the team as he injured himself a few weeks upon signing.
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.
It was the greatest moment in Dodgers’ history since Gibson’s Game 1 homer in the 1988 World Series against the Oakland A’s, and just like Gibson’s blast, will live forever in World Series ...
Aaron Boone, 51, after missing the postseason last year, has led the New York Yankees to their first World Series since 2009. DODGERS VS. YANKEES: LA-NY matchup is holy grail for Fox, MLB
Soto had spent the 2024 season with the Yankees, posting the highest bWAR of his illustrious seven-year career at 7.9, hitting 41 home runs, driving in 109 and scoring a league-high 128.
The 2009 Major League Baseball season began on April 5, 2009; the regular season was extended two days for a one-game playoff between the Detroit Tigers and the Minnesota Twins for the American League Central title. The postseason began the next day with the Division Series.