Los Angeles Dodgers advance to World Series for fourth time in seven years
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The Los Angeles Dodgers advanced to the World Series, defeating the New York Mets in the National League Championship series in six games.
The Dodgers won 10-5 in Game 6 to move to the final round of the postseason.
Los Angeles will now appear in its fourth World Series since 2017. The Dodgers are 1-2 in their three most recent appearances. They lost in 2017 and 2018 and won in 2020 during the pandemic-shortened season.
The Dodgers' first three wins in the NLCS were dominant both on the mound and in the batter's box. Los Angeles won Games 1, 3 and 4 by a combined score of 27-2.
The offense was especially great in Game 6.
The Dodgers fell behind 1-0 after the first inning before they scored the game's next six runs. Los Angeles hit two two-run home runs in the bottom of the third, courtesy of Tommy Edman and Will Smith.
Edman also had a two-run double in the first.
Insurance runs came in the later innings. Shohei Ohtani hit an RBI single in the sixth, with three more runs coming in the eighth inning via a Teoscar Hernandez sacrifice fly, a Mookie Betts double and an Enrique Hernandez single.
The Dodgers' 46 runs against the Mets are the fourthmost ever in a single playoff series, per MLB's Sarah Langs.
After it lost in the NLCS in 2021, Los Angeles had struggled in the postseason before this fall. The Dodgers lost in the Divisional Series two years in a row — winning only one game across two postseasons — before this month.
Los Angeles also got some revenge during this trip to the World Series, knocking out its NL West rival the San Diego Padres in the NLDS, who did the same to the Dodgers in 2022.
It will be the first World Series appearance for the Ohtani, 30, who made history this season as the first person ever to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases. Ohtani won two American League MVP awards while playing for the Los Angeles Angels from 2018 to 2023 but never played for a team that finished above .500 until he joined the Dodgers.
The Mets, who have the highest payroll in MLB at more than $305 million, have not made the World Series since 2015.
The Dodgers will face their cross-country rival the New York Yankees in the World Series, their MLB record 12th matchup in the Fall Classic. The Yankees have won eight of the previous 11 meetings.
The World Series begins Friday.
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The only thing the Dodgers do for me is make my LA bride smile and they avenged the Phillies and Brewers who were probably focused on playing each other when the almost Miracle Mets 2024 took them both down with a whimper.
Every time I watched Philly they lost, like 0-1.
Every time I watched LA I was intrigued by Ohtani and his great attitude.
Oh, I sure hope they will cover the games on TV here, they do hockey, so I hope so. This is bound to be an iconic historic World Series. I fell in love with baseball when the Blue Jays came to Toronto, got seasons tickets behind home plate. The most exciting moment I've ever had in sports was to be in the Skydome and watch Joe Carter hit the bottom of the 9th come from behind home run that won the Blue Jays their back-to-back 2nd World Series. I've had to get my baseball fix by watching movies like The Natural, Moneyball, A League of Their Own, Field of Dreams, 42, Bull Durham, Major League, For the Love of the Game, The Pride of the Yankees, etc. etc.