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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.
[1] [2] This came into play for the first time when the Detroit Tigers and the Minnesota Twins tied for the lead of the American League Central at the end of the regular season (October 4); the one-game playoff was played on October 6 at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome as the Twins won the season series, 11–7.
The 2009 National League Championship Series (NLCS) was a best-of-seven baseball game series in Major League Baseball’s 2009 postseason pitting the top-seeded Los Angeles Dodgers against the second-seeded Philadelphia Phillies for the National League Championship and the right to represent the National League in the 2009 World Series.
The Dodgers would take Game 1 at home. Game 1 set a postseason record for runners left on base combined between the two teams with 30. Game 2 marked Clayton Kershaw ’s postseason debut, and while he wouldn’t get the win (that would go to George Sherrill , the Dodgers won 3-2 to take a 2–0 series lead headed to St. Louis.
This list is complete and up-to-date as of the 2023 season. The following is a list of players, both past and current, who appeared at least in one game for the Los Angeles Dodgers National League franchise (1958–present), and for the Brooklyn-based teams known as the Atlantics (1884), Grays (1885–1887), Bridegrooms (1888–1890, 1896–1898), Grooms (1891–1895), Superbas (1899–1910 ...
The 2008 Los Angeles Dodgers season featured the Dodgers celebrating their Golden Anniversary in Southern California under new manager Joe Torre as they won the National League West for the first time since 2004, and returned to the postseason after missing the playoffs in 2007.
The 2009 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim season was the franchise's 49th season. The Angels began the season as the two-time defending American League West champions. Perhaps the most notable player to depart in the offseason due to free agency was longtime closing pitcher Francisco Rodríguez , who signed with the New York Mets .