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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.
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 ...
The 2009 Major League Baseball season began on April 5, 2009; the regular season was extended two days for a one-game playoff between the Detroit Tigers and the Minnesota Twins for the American League Central title. The postseason began the next day with the Division Series.
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.
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.
The Major League Baseball postseason is an elimination tournament conducted after the regular season, by which MLB determines its World Series champion for a given year.. The MLB postseason format has evolved throughout its history, with the number of participating teams increasing from two (for its first six-plus decades) to the current 12, with a special format in 2020 having 16.
The Dodgers clinched their 12th consecutive postseason berth Thursday with a 20-4 rout of the Miami Marlins on the same night that star slugger Shohei Ohtani homered three times and stole two ...
Los Angeles Dodgers: 2009: 5: St. Louis Cardinals: 3–2: New York Yankees: 1964: Notes ... List of NBA playoff series; List of NFL playoff games; List of NHL playoff ...