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A total of 120 World Series have been contested through 2024, with the AL champion winning 68 and the NL champion winning 52. The New York Yankees of the AL have played in 41 World Series, winning 27 – the most championship appearances and most victories by any MLB team.
Since moving to Los Angeles, the Dodgers have won twelve more National League Championships and seven more World Series rings. [30] The Dodgers have had only three top-five draft picks since the MLB Draft was introduced in 1965, and have had one top-ten pick (Clayton Kershaw, No. 7) since 1985. [31] In-game action at Dodger Stadium, 1978
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.
A series-by-series look at each of the World Series the Dodgers franchise played in before winning it all again in 2024.
In both the 1955 and 1956 World Series, the home team won the first six games of the World Series, but lost Game 7. It would not be until 1987 when the home team won all seven games of a World Series. [14] However, the Yankees became the first American League team to lose a World Series in which the home team won all seven games, in 2001. [14] [15]
The current Dodgers and the 1965 World Series one are the only teams to have the first six games of a playoff series decided by four or more runs. But that's all they have in common.
In 1959, the season ended in a tie between the Dodgers and the Milwaukee Braves.The Dodgers won the tie-breaking playoff. 1959 also saw a team other than the Yankees win the A.L. pennant, one of only two such years in the 16-year stretch from 1949 through 1964, and because of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, this resulted in the first World Series since 1948 to have no games in New York City.
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 ...