Dodgers 4 Yankees 1

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Eric72

They didn't seem like a team that plays hard and focuses on fundamentals.

Either way, bust it down the line. Good things tend to happen when teams that play like that.

Indeed! Just ask Ty Cobb or Pete Rose.

[Balticfox]

The best thing that the Dodgers ever did though was move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles after the 1957 season. Consider these World Series records:

Brooklyn Dodgers: 1-8
Los Angeles Dodgers: 7-6

And against their decades old rivals the New York Yankees:

Brooklyn: 1-6 (17-27 by games)
Los Angeles: 3-2 (16-11 by games)

While in Brooklyn the Dodgers just couldn't get it done and close the deal at year-end. Since their relocation to Los Angeles, it's been a different story.

[skil55voy]

As a lifelong Detroit Tigers fan ( Yeah I know ) ABTY: Anybody But the Yankees!

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Eric72

Did anyone notice?

Near the end of game 3, Alex Verdugo hit a home run. He made contact and watched the ball as it flew back, back, back. He's lucky it cleared the wall. From the video I saw, it didn't clear it by much. Had that ball stayed in play, he would have looked quite foolish.

While arguably not as bad as Cole's lazy fielding, it seems indicative of a larger problem with the Yankees. They didn't seem like a team that plays hard and focuses on fundamentals.

Now, maybe Verdugo crushed that pitch and it was a no-doubter. Either way, bust it down the line. Good things tend to happen when teams that play like that.

I basically said the same thing in another thread about Gleyber Torres game 4 homer. Barely cleared the right field wall and he’s hardly out of the box when it lands 1 row in.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

If you want to see a really mind-boggling difference in stats between a losing team and a winning team in the World Series, check out the 1960 Series between the Yanks and the Pirates.

I'll start it off with:

Yankees 3.54 ERA

Pirates 7.11 ERA

The Yankees DESTROYED the Pirates in just about every offensive stat you can think of in that series, EXCEPT "games won".

Average runs scored per game : Yankees 7.86 vs Pirates 3.86

Yankees won games by average of 11.67 runs (2 unearned)

Pirates won by games an average of 1.75 runs (0.5 unearned)

[Eric72]

I pulled this from a pack in 2011...glad I held on to it.

[Gary Dunaier]

I'm certainly not going to say anything in defense of, or sympathetic to, the Yankees.

But I can't help but think George Steinbrenner must be turning in his grave at this scene: the Yankee Stadium scoreboard proclaiming the Los Angeles Dodgers World Champions as they celebrate on his field.

It doesn't make the Dodgers' defeating the Mets in the NLCS any better, but it's a nice consolation prize.