The Dodgers–Yankees rivalry is one of the biggest

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. The

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are a member club of the

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(NL)

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division, and the

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are a member club of the

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(AL)

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division. The teams have met 12 times in the

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, more than any other two teams, with the Yankees winning eight times. The rivalry began in New York City, when the Dodgers played in

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and the Yankees in the

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. After the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in , the rivalry continued as the teams represented two of the largest cities on each coast of the United States. Fan support has added to the notoriety of the series as both teams are supported by two of the largest fanbases in North America. Although the rivalry's significance arose from the two teams' numerous World Series meetings, the Yankees and Dodgers did not meet in the World Series between and . They did not play each other again in a non-exhibition game until 2004, when they played a three-game interleague series. Nevertheless, games between the two teams have drawn sellout crowds. The two teams met in the

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for the first time in 43 years, with the Dodgers winning the series in 5 games.

World Series matchups

A new team in town, new stadiums built, Subway Series established

At the dawn of the 20th century, the

was in its infancy, and one of its charter franchises was the original Baltimore Orioles, was replaced by a franchise in New York. The league, however, recognized that it required a presence in New York City, the country's largest market, in order to survive. Hence, it moved the Orioles to New York, which was already the home of two

franchises, the

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and

New York Giants The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Giants compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East division. The ...

. The new team was eventually called the New York Highlanders due to their home field being

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from 1903 to 1912. After the Highlanders allowed the Giants to play at Hilltop Park when the latter's home stadium, the

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, was undergoing reconstruction from a fire, the Giants invited the Highlanders to share the Polo Grounds with them. Since the Highlanders were no longer playing at higher elevations, they changed their name to the New York Yankees. The Dodgers also opened up their new field,

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, in Brooklyn. Their opening game at the stadium was an exhibition game against the Highlanders on April 5, where future Yankee manager

Casey Stengel Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel (; July 30, 1890 – September 29, 1975) was an American Major League Baseball right fielder and Manager (baseball), manager, best known as the manager of the championship New York Yankees of the 1950s and later, t ...

had the game-winning hit for the Dodgers. The Highlanders would officially be called the Yankees later that year. In 1920, the Giants notified the Yankees that they would have to find a new stadium of their own for the 1921 season. The Giants rescinded that eviction notice and allowed the Yankees to stay until the end of the 1922 season, when the Giants renovated the Polo Grounds and increased seating capacity from 38,000 to 50,000. Before that however, the

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between the Giants and Yankees became the first Subway Series, as match-ups between the Dodgers and the Giants were not referred to as Subway Series. After losing to the Giants in that World Series and again the following year, the Yankees moved across the

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to the original Yankee Stadium in the

, where they captured their first World Series from the Giants in

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1941: First meeting between the Bronx Bombers and "Dem Bums"

The Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers first met in the

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. In Game 4, with the Yankees leading the series two games to one, the Dodgers led by one going to the top of the ninth inning and, with two outs, just barely missed getting the third out and wound up losing the game. With two outs, the Yankees'

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swung and missed with two strikes, but reached on a passed ball, as Dodger catcher Mickey Owen failed to hold on to the pitch. Henrich reached first base on the play. Owen recalled the incident:

Joe DiMaggio Joseph Paul DiMaggio (; born Giuseppe Paolo DiMaggio, ; November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999), nicknamed "Joltin' Joe", "the Yankee Clipper" and "Joe D.", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career ...

followed Henrich's at bat with a single before

Charlie Keller Charles Ernest Keller (September 12, 1916 – May 23, 1990) was an American professional baseball player. He played as a left fielder in Major League Baseball from 1939 through 1952 for the New York Yankees (1939–1943, 1945–1949, 1952) and De ...

hit a double to drive in both Henrich and DiMaggio and give the Yankees a 5–4 lead. After

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walked, he and Keller scored on a Joe Gordon double to make the final score 7–4. The next day, the Yankees clinched the first series match-up between the two teams in the start of what would become a long-lasting rivalry.

1947–53: "Wait 'til ''next'' year!"

Six years later, the

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had a dramatic moment in Game 6. The Dodgers'

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was placed in left field for defensive purposes and robbed Joe DiMaggio of a game-tying three-run home run. DiMaggio was visibly disgusted by the outcome of the play when rounding the bases in one of the few emotional displays of his career. The Dodgers won the game and forced a do-or-die Game 7, only to fall. Dramatic defensive plays would be seen again, this time by the Yankees in the 1952 contest, as Billy Martin came outside the camera coverage area to catch a pop-fly after Brooklyn had threatened to take the lead in Game 7. Martin would go on to be the hero once more in the 1953 series with a series record 12 hits, including the winning hit of the series-clinching game off of

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. Brooklyn signed

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to not only break the color line, but to bolster the lineup. Robinson, along with outfielder

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and pitcher

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, sparked Brooklyn to four National League pennants between

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and

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito ...

. Every time during this period, however, the World Series ended poorly for the Dodgers and gave the Dodger fans their rallying cry: "Wait 'til ''next'' year!" During the 1953 World Series, long time Dodgers announcer

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refused to man the broadcast booth due to a compensation dispute with

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. Barber jumped ship to the Yankees and joined

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to call the games for the Yankees. Struggling to find a replacement, the Dodgers gave the call to a 25-year-old named

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, the youngest man to ever call a World Series game for a major network. Scully would continue as a Dodgers broadcaster for another six decades.

1955: "This ''IS'' next year!"

Finally, in the Dodgers reversed matters, prevailing over the Yankees in seven games to win their only World Series in Brooklyn. Thus came the slogan, ''This IS next year''.

1956: Don Larsen's perfect game

Brooklyn fell short of repeating the next season, falling in seven games to the Yankees. That year's team suffered some ignominy in being on the losing end of Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5, which was the first of only three

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s ever pitched in postseason play. In both the 1955 and 1956 World Series, the home team won the first six games of the World Series, but lost Game 7. It would not be until when the home team won all seven games of a World Series. However, the Yankees became the first American League team to lose a World Series in which the home team won all seven games, in . The 1956 World Series would be the last Subway Series of the 1900s and the last to include one of the National League's charter franchises.

1963: Los Angeles Dodgers win

After the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles for the 1958 season, it would take them two dominating pitchers (

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and Don Drysdale), a speedy shortstop (

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) and a proficient outfielder ( Tommy Davis) to spark them to a pennant in

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. They swept the Yankees (consisting of

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Roger Maris Roger Eugene Maris (born Maras; September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985) was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He is best known for setting a new List of Major League Baseball p ...

, and

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) in four straight games to win their second World Series since moving to Los Angeles, having won in , with the Bronx Bombers not taking a single lead against the powerful Los Angeles pitching staff and being limited to just four runs in the entire series, the first meeting between teams from

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and

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for a major professional sports championship. Dodgers broadcaster

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 bitterness toward them."

1977: The Bronx Is Burning

After 14 years, sophomore manager Tommy Lasorda led a young Dodgers team to the

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where they faced Billy Martin and the Yankees. The two managers were involved in a fist fight during the 1956 season while playing for the two teams they were now managing. The Yankees were coming off a controversy ridden season. Furious at their loss to The Big Red Machine in the

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, owner

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had signed slugger

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to the team. Jackson immediately created friction in the clubhouse between himself and Billy Martin as well as captain Thurman Munson, the defending AL MVP. New York City itself was going through a financial crisis under

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Abraham Beame and experienced the

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and a major blackout, all chronicled in '' The Bronx Is Burning''. Despite the controversy, the Yankees managed to play together and win the pennant to face the Dodgers in the World Series. The Dodgers featured an infield of

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at first, Davey Lopes at second,

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at third, and

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at shortstop, in addition to slugger

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, and pitching duo (

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and Tommy John). In addition to Jackson and Munson, the Yankees had Bucky Dent and

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, Cy Young Award-winning closer

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, young pitcher

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, and speedsters

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and Mickey Rivers. The Dodgers appeared primed to win the Series, but Reggie Jackson put on his "Mr. October" show as he hit three home runs in Game 6 off three pitches to lead the Yanks to their first World Series championship since .

1978: Bucky Dent's Playoffs

The next season, the Yankees won their division, thanks in large part to a timely home run from Bucky Dent in a one-game playoff against the

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. They went to the World Series for the third straight year where they faced the Dodgers for the second straight year. The Dodgers won the first two games of the Series thanks to rookie pitcher Bob Welch, but New York won the next four to take the 75th Fall Classic.

1981: Changing of the Guard

In , the fortunes turned in LA's favor, as rookie pitcher

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won National League Rookie of the Year and Cy Young Award honors. But the Yankees had American League Rookie of the Year Dave Righetti (who was traded from the Rangers in exchange for Lyle) and the 1–2 relief punch of set-up man Ron Davis and closer Rich Gossage. The Yankees won the first two contests, but LA, led by Valenzuela and first baseman

, won the next four to claim their first World Series title since in a strike-shortened

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. Fallout from the series led to Reggie Jackson being controversially dismissed a bit later, and owner

started a public feud with

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, who had a poor performance in the series. After the series ended, Steinbrenner issued a public apology to the City of New York for his team's performance, while at the same time assuring the fans that plans to put the team together for 1982 would begin immediately. Players and press alike criticized the owner for doing this, as most people felt losing in the World Series was not something that needed to be apologized for. Lasorda said of the revenge for what Jackson did to the Dodgers in 1977 and 1978: "We were suffering and the guy was making a fool out of us. I was hoping and praying we would get another shot at him." This led to the Yankees not winning a World Series in the 1980s, one of two decades they would not win a championship since moving to the Bronx (the other being the 2010s). In contrast, the Dodgers were able to defeat the Oakland Athletics in the

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. It would be their last post-season meeting until the 2024 World Series, the last time ever the Dodgers visited the old Yankee Stadium, and the last meeting between teams from New York City and Los Angeles for a major professional sports championship until the

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Rivalry in the 21st century

Interleague matchups

The introduction of

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in 1997 allowed the Yankees and Dodgers to play each other in the regular season. For the first several decades of interleague play, however, the Dodgers and Yankees had different regular interleague partners: the Dodgers typically played the

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, and the Yankees typically played the Mets. Before the adoption of universal interleague play in 2023, the Dodgers and Yankees played only five interleague series. In addition, the Dodgers never played a regular season series at the original Yankee Stadium. Dodgers-Yankees matchups have tended to be popular with fans, and frequently result in sell-out crowds. The first time the Dodgers visited the Bronx since interleague play was introduced, in June 2013, their doubleheader sold out the new

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.Yankee greats Joe Torre and Don Mattingly managed the Dodgers from 2008 to 2010 and 2011 to 2015, respectively, adding more flavor to the Dodgers-Yankees series in 2010 and 2013. During the 2010 season, the Yankees and Dodgers played at Dodger Stadium on June 25–27, the first time that Torre and Mattingly faced the Yankees as Dodger coaches. The Yankees were victorious, winning the series two games to one. The teams met again during the 2013 season. The doubleheader of June 19 was not just the Dodgers' return to the Bronx after a long absence; it was also Mattingly's first return to the Bronx as a game participant since the Dodgers promoted him to manager following Torre's retirement. (Mattingly had previously visited the new Yankee Stadium on the night they honored George Steinbrenner with a monument in Monument Park.) The Dodgers and Yankees have played each other in every regular season since 2023.

2024 World Series

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, the Dodgers and Yankees finished with the best records in the National and American Leagues, and met in the

for the first time in 43 years. The Dodgers won the first three games and took the title in five games. However, aside from Game 4 (which Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was said to have punted due to a lack of healthy starting pitchers), each game was reasonably competitive. Writing for

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, Jeff Passan noted that although the Dodgers "scored 25 runs to the Yankees' 24 ... the Dodgers won the World Series in convincing fashion, over five games, because they were better in close contests." In particular, the Yankees surrendered an extra-inning, walk-off grand slam to Freddie Freeman in Game 1 and a 5-0 lead in Game 5.

Season-by-season results

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2717 , Seventh postseason meeting, last Subway Series between the two teams , - style="background:#f2f2f2; font-weight:bold;" ,

1963 World Series 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 Se ...

, style=";" , Dodgers , style=";" , 40 , style=";" , Dodgers, 20 , style=";" , Dodgers, 20 , style=";" , Yankees
2721 , Eighth postseason meeting, Dodgers sweep } , - style="background:#f2f2f2; font-weight:bold;" ,

, style=";" , Yankees , style=";" , 42 , style=";" , Yankees, 21 , style=";" , Yankees, 21 , style=";" , Yankees
3123 , Ninth postseason meeting , - style="background:#f2f2f2; font-weight:bold;" ,

1978 World Series The 1978 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1978 season. The 75th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees and the Nat ...

, style=";" , Yankees , style=";" , 42 , style=";" , Dodgers, 21 , style=";" , Yankees, 30 , style=";" , Yankees
3525 , Tenth postseason meeting , - style="background:#f2f2f2; font-weight:bold;" ,

1981 World Series The 1981 World Series was the World Series, championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1981 Major League Baseball season, 1981 season. The 78th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the American Lea ...

, style=";" , Dodgers , style=";" , 42 , style=";" , Dodgers, 30 , style=";" , Yankees, 21 , style=";" , Yankees
3729 , Eleventh postseason meeting , - , , style=";" , Dodgers , style=";" , 21 , style=";" , Dodgers, 21 , ''no games'' , style=";" , Yankees
3831 , , - , , style=";" , Yankees , style=";" , 21 , style=";" , Yankees, 21 , ''no games'' , style=";" , Yankees
4032 , , - , , Tie , 22 , Tie, 11 , Tie, 11 , style=";" , Yankees
4234 , , - , , style=";" , Dodgers , style=";" , 21 , ''no games'' , style=";" , Dodgers, 21 , style=";" , Yankees
4336 , , - , , style=";" , Yankees , style=";" , 21 , style=";" , Yankees, 21 , ''no games'' , style=";" , Yankees
4537 , , - , , style=";" , Yankees , style=";" , 21 , style=";" , Yankees, 21 , ''no games'' , style=";" , Yankees
4738 , Permanent adoption of the three-game series format, with location alternating every season. , - , , style=";" , Dodgers , style=";" , 21 , ''no games'' , style=";" , Dodgers, 21 , style=";" , Yankees
4840 , , - style="background:#f2f2f2; font-weight:bold;" ,

, style=";" , Dodgers , style=";" , 41 , style=";" , Dodgers, 20 , style=";" , Dodgers, 21 , style=";" , Yankees
4944 , Twelfth postseason meeting. First since 1981. , - , , style=";" , Dodgers , style=";" , 21 , style=";" , Dodgers, 21 , ''no games'' , style=";" , Yankees
5046 , , - , Regular season games , style=";" , Dodgers , style=";" , 1312 , style=";" , Yankees, 98 , style=";" , Dodgers, 53 , , - , Postseason games , style=";" , Yankees , style=";" , 3833 , style=";" , Dodgers, 2115 , style=";" , Yankees, 2312 , , - , Postseason series , style=";" , Yankees , style=";" , 84 , style=";" , Dodgers, 84 , style=";" , Yankees, 732 , World Series: , , , , , , , , , , , , - , Regular and postseason , style=";" , Yankees , style=";" , 5046 , style=";" , Dodgers, 2924 , style=";" , Yankees, 2617 ,

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