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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 franchise has won eight World Series, twenty-five pennants (including one from their days in the American Association), and won the their division twenty times. [3] 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 1963 sweep was their second victory against the Yankees, and their first against them as a Los Angeles team. The Dodgers won four more pennants in 1966, 1974, 1977, and 1978, but lost in each World Series appearance. They went on to win the World Series again in 1981, thanks in part to pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela. Fernando Valenzuela
A series-by-series look at each of the World Series the Dodgers franchise played in before winning it all again in 2024.
The Dodgers won the World Series during the COVID-shortened 2020 season. Before then, their last World Series title was in 1988. List of all Dodgers World Series titles:
The teams have played against each other 11 times in past title series since their first in 1941. The Yankees have clinched eight of those championships. Every Yankees vs. Dodgers World Series ...
The Dodgers won the series finale, 3–1, after Betts hit a two-run home run in the eighth inning. Stone struck out seven while only allowing one run in seven innings. [183] The Baltimore Orioles came to town for a three-game series next, with the Orioles taking game one, 3–2, on a two-run home run by Ramón Urías in the fifth. [184]
The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in the 2024 World Series on Wednesday. Dodgers clinched their second World Series title in the last five years by beating the Yankees 7-6 ...