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The 1965 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1965 season. The 62nd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the National League champion Los Angeles Dodgers against the American League champion Minnesota Twins .
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 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.
The 1965 Los Angeles Dodgers finished the regular-season with a 97–65 record, which earned them the NL pennant by two games over their arch-rivals, the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers went on to win the World Series in seven games over the Minnesota Twins.
He retires with a career managerial record of 1,899–1,835 over 25 MLB seasons dating to 1934; he won ten American League pennants and seven World Series during his 12 seasons (1949–1960) as manager of the New York Yankees. He is the only person to have played for or managed all four of New York's major league clubs.
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.
From left, Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills, pitcher Sandy Koufax and center fielder Willie Davis celebrate after winning Game 5 against the Minnesota Twins in the 1965 World Series.
During the series, Koufax struck out 23 batters in 18 innings, a record for a four-game World Series, and had a 2–0 record with an earned run average of 1.50; for his performance, he was awarded the World Series Most Valuable Player Award. [90] [91] [92]