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The Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers have appeared in the World Series 22 times, while the New York/San Francisco Giants have appeared in the World Series 20 times. The Dodgers and Giants are tied with (8) World Series titles. When the two teams were based in New York, the Giants won five World Series championships, and the Dodgers one.
The Dodgers have represented the NL the most in the World Series with 22 appearances. The Seattle Mariners are the only MLB franchise that has never appeared in a World Series; the Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Tampa Bay Rays, and Colorado Rockies have all played in the Series but have never won it, with the Padres and the Rays appearing ...
Here's a look at each of the 21 other times the franchise played in the World Series, from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, before this year's run to the franchise's eighth title. 1916: Boston Red Sox 4 ...
The 1955 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1955 season.The 52nd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the National League (NL) champion Brooklyn Dodgers against the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees, with the Dodgers winning the Series in seven games to capture their first championship in franchise history.
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.
In 1955, the Dodgers – beaten by the Yankees in each of their last five World Series appearances – finally claimed revenge over their city rivals and became world champions for the first time ...
The Dodgers came back to Brooklyn with a 3-2 series lead. But the Yanks won 3-2 in Game 6, and Billy Martin’s charging catch of Robinson’s bases-loaded pop fly preserved a 4-2 lead in Game 7.
The Dodgers won their first National League pennant since moving from Brooklyn after the 1957 season by defeating the Milwaukee Braves (another franchise that had relocated from their original city, Boston, in 1953 [1]) 2–0 in a best-of-three tie breaker series. The Dodgers' first world championship in Los Angeles, the win was their second ...