{"id":457613,"date":"2025-12-02T18:58:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/457613\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:58:14","slug":"a-look-back-at-every-dodgers-world-series-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/457613\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back at Every Dodgers World Series Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dodgers have celebrated nine World Series titles \u2014 eight in Los Angeles.\u00a0Look back on how each team won its championship title<\/p>\n<p>1955\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Losing Team: New York Yankees\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Playing in their eighth World Series \u2014 and their sixth against the Yankees, the Dodgers finally break through to win their only baseball championship in Brooklyn. Series MVP Johnny Podres shuts out the Yanks, 2-0, in Game 7 at Yankee Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"941\" height=\"1200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"1959 Los Angeles Dodgers v. Chicago White Sox World Series program\" class=\"wp-image-280383\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LAD-0028-0012-0001-941x1200.jpg\"\/>Credit: Courtesy of Los Angeles Dodgers<\/p>\n<p>1959\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Losing Team: Chicago White Sox\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In just the second season in their new city, the Dodgers, playing home games in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, bring L.A. its first World Series trophy. Pitcher Larry Sherry earns a win or save in every Dodger victory, including the deciding Game 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1963\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Losing Team: New York Yankees\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pitchers Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Johnny Podres throttle Yankee hitters as the team sweeps its former tormentors, winning Game 4 at Dodger Stadium in just the ballpark\u2019s second season. It\u2019s the only time the Dodgers have celebrated a championship on their home field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"903\" height=\"1200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"1965 Los Angeles Dodgers v. Minnesota Twins World Series program\" class=\"wp-image-280384\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LAD-0029-0007-0001-903x1200.jpg\"\/>Credit: Courtesy of Los Angeles Dodgers<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center is-style-altfont has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color has-xs-font-size wp-elements-a392843e06eac12cec56e735f4f8219f has-lg-margin-top\" style=\"letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase\">Scroll to continue reading<\/p>\n<p>1965\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Losing Team: Minnesota Twins\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Koufax spins a shutout in Game 7 in Minneapolis, earning his second World Series MVP Award in three years. He retires the following season at age 30, citing chronic arthritis in his pitching arm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"886\" height=\"1200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"1981 Los Angeles Dodgers v. New York Yakees World Series program\" class=\"wp-image-280385\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LAD-0031-0001-0001-886x1200.jpg\"\/>Credit: Courtesy of Los Angeles Dodgers<\/p>\n<p>1981\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Losing Team: New York Yankees\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dawn of Fernandomania: Fernando Valenzuela caps his astounding rookie season with a victory in Game 3, and the Dodgers get revenge for World Series losses to the Yankees in 1978 and \u201979. L.A. sweeps the final four games, including Game 6 in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1988\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Losing Team: Oakland A\u2019s\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened!\u201d is Vin Scully\u2019s call of the two-run, ninth-inning homer by Kirk Gibson, who limps out of the Dodger dugout to pinch hit in his only at-bat of the Series. Orel Hershiser, who pitches the team to two victories, including the Game 5 finale, is MVP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"873\" height=\"1200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"1988 Los Angeles Dodgers v. Oakland A's World Series program\" class=\"wp-image-280386\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LAD-0031-0005-0001-873x1200.jpg\"\/>Credit: Courtesy of Los Angeles Dodgers<\/p>\n<p>2020\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Losing Team:\u00a0Tampa Bay Rays <\/p>\n<p>In a pandemic-shortened season, baseball holds all World Series games in Arlington, Texas, and lets less than 12,000 fans attend each contest to ensure social distancing. Clayton Kershaw pitches the Dodgers to victory in Games 1 and 5, and Corey Seager, who hits .400 for the six-game Series, is voted MVP. Dodger third baseman Justin Turner leaves Game 6 in the eighth inning after testing positive for COVID.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2024\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Losing Team: New York Yankees\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Freddie Freeman belts four homers in the first four games and knocks in 12 runs over the five-game Series to earn MVP honors. A fan\u2019s banner in Yankee Stadium calls out the pain in the Big Apple: \u201cFreddie, Please Stop.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"927\" height=\"1200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"2025 Los Angeles Dodgers v. Toronto Blue Jay's World Series program\" class=\"wp-image-280382\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-World-Series-program-cover-e1764624383885-927x1200.jpg\"\/>Credit: Courtesy of Los Angeles Dodgers<\/p>\n<p>2025\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Losing Team: Toronto Blue Jays\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yoshinobu Yamamoto earns wins in three of the four Dodger victories, pitching the final three innings in Game 7 after going six innings the night before. \u201cTo tell Dave Roberts you\u2019re still OK to go out there takes a lot of bravery,\u201d Hershiser, now a team broadcaster, tells Los Angeles. \u201cIt takes a lot of strength. It takes a lot of understanding yourself. And I think you\u2019ve got to be slightly crazy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers have celebrated nine World Series titles \u2014 eight in Los Angeles.\u00a0Look back on how each team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,2561,62672,57,4,62,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-457613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicagowhitesox","12":"tag-december-2025","13":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-new-york-yankees","16":"tag-white-sox","17":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115651510981954106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}