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The 2024 National League Championship Series was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2024 postseason. It matched the overall #1 seed Los Angeles Dodgers against the sixth-seeded New York Mets. The Dodgers won the series, four games to two, to become National League (NL) champions and advance to the 2024 World Series.
The 2024 Tampa Bay Rays season was the 27th season of the Tampa Bay Rays franchise, and their 17th as the Rays. They played their home games at Tropicana Field as members of Major League Baseball's American League East. The Rays finished with a record of 80-82, good for 4th in the AL East, 14 games behind the division champion New York Yankees.
The Dodgers had home-field advantage in the series due to their better regular season win-loss record. It was the 12th time in the Dodgers–Yankees rivalry that the teams have met in the World Series, but only the first instance since 1981. The teams had previously faced each other at least once per decade from the 1940s through the 1980s.
The Nationals had only one pending major league free agent after the 2023 season: reliever Carl Edwards Jr., who had finished the season on the 60-day injured list.The Nationals also declined their 2024 club option for outfielder Víctor Robles, who had also ended the season on the 60-day injured list, while retaining his rights through arbitration.
The 2024 Chicago Cubs season was the 153rd season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 149th in the National League, and the Cubs' 109th season at Wrigley Field. The Cubs were led by first-year manager Craig Counsell and played as members of Major League Baseball 's National League Central division .
The New York Yankees have the highest all-time regular season win–loss percentage (.569) in Major League Baseball history. Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, which consists of a total of 30 teams—15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL and AL were formed in 1876 and ...
In the process he became the first player in Major League Baseball history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a single season. He also set new Dodgers franchise records for home runs in a season, passing Shawn Green (49 in 2001 ) and most RBI in a game, passing James Loney ( 2006 ) and Gil Hodges ( 1950 ) who both had nine.
The win gave the Redbirds a 16-12 record in June, their first 16-win June since 2015. [112] The attendance was 40,951 pushing the total over 1.5 million after 42 home games, averaging 36,290 per game. If that average remains the same in the remaining 39 home games, the season's total would be 2.93 million.