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Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully said that although the Dodgers won four World Series titles in 10 years, he said that this championship was the biggest of those four because "the ultimate was not only beating the Yankees but sweeping them in four", but said that "to New York fans it was still the old Brooklyn Dodgers and there was a lot of ...
The Dodgers–Yankees rivalry is one of the most well-known rivalries in Major League Baseball. [164] The strength of the rivalry has its foundation in the record twelve World Series matchups between the franchises, the teams' shared home of New York during the first half of the 20th century, and the present-day cultural rivalry between the ...
The 1963 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1963 season.The 60th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the American League (AL) champion and two-time defending World Series champion New York Yankees against the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers; the Dodgers swept the Series in four games to secure their ...
For the third year in a row, the Yankees and Royals met in the ALCS, and once again the Yankees came out on top, this time in four games, to return to the World Series for the third year in a row. In Kansas City, the Yankees blew out the Royals in Game 1, while in Game 2, the Royals responded with a blowout victory of their own to even the series.
In Game 5, the Dodgers, thanks to a complete game performance from Don Sutton, blew out the Yankees, 10–4, to send the series back to the Bronx. In Game 6, the Yankees prevailed by four runs, capped off by a solo home run from Reggie Jackson in the bottom of the eighth which sealed the title for New York.
The Yankees held off a late rally by the Dodgers to take Game 1 by a 5–3 score, and Tommy John and Goose Gossage helped shut out the Dodgers in Game 2 to go up 2–0 in the series headed to Los Angeles. The Dodgers rallied late in the fifth inning of Game 3 to get on the board, and Fernando Valenzuela pitched a complete game for the Dodgers ...
The Dodgers and Yankees entered the 2024 MLB postseason as the top seeds in their respective leagues. 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 ...
This was the first Subway Series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees (though the Yankees had already faced the crosstown New York Giants five times). These two teams would meet a total of seven times from 1941 to 1956 — the Dodgers' only victory coming in 1955 — with an additional five matchups after the Dodgers left for Los ...