the dodgers and yankees last played each other in the world series in 1981.
the dodgers and yankees last played each other in the world series in 1981.
when did the dodgers and yankees last play each other in the world series?
1981
fourteen "subway series" have been played entirely within new york city, all including the american league's new york yankees. thirteen of them matched the yankees with either the new york giants or the brooklyn dodgers of the national league. the initial instances occurred in 1921 and 1922, when the giants beat the yankees in consecutive world series that were not technically "subway series" since the teams shared the polo grounds as their home ballpark. the yankees finally beat the giants the following year, their first in their brand-new yankee stadium, and won the two teams' three subsequent fall classic match-ups in 1936, 1937 and 1951. the yankees faced brooklyn seven times in october, winning their first five meetings in 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952 and 1953, before losing to the dodgers in 1955, brooklyn's sole world championship. the last subway series involving the original new york ballclubs came in 1956, when the yankees again beat the dodgers. the trio was separated in 1958 when the dodgers and giants moved to california (although the yankees subsequently met and beat the now-san francisco giants in 1962, and played the now-los angeles dodgers four times, losing to them in a four-game sweep in 1963, beating them back-to-back in 1977 and 1978 and losing to them in 1981). an all-new york series did not recur until 2000, when the yankees defeated the new york mets in five games.
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bullet::::6. there have been 19 world series four-game (4–0) sweeps, the most recent of which occurred in 2012. nine teams have swept a world series at least once, the yankees having done so most often (8 times). the red sox, reds, and giants have all done it twice. the braves, orioles, white sox, dodgers, and athletics have each swept one series. six of these teams (all but the orioles, red sox and white sox) have also been swept 0–4 in at least one world series. the red sox' two world series sweeps are the most of any team that has never been swept in one. the reds and yankees are the only teams to have swept each other (the yankees swept the reds in 1939, while the reds swept the yankees in 1976). the giants are the only team to record world series sweeps in two cities: new york (1954) and san francisco (2012). the 1999 yankees are the last team to date, and the only one since 1966, to sweep a world series it began on the road. the 1963 dodgers are the last national league team to date to sweep a world series it began on the road.
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