the last time yankees made it to world series was 2004.
the last time yankees made it to world series was 2004.
last time yankees made it to world series?
2004
following an 11-year playoff drought, the club appeared in the playoffs five times in a six-year period and won back-to-back world series championships in 1977 and 1978. the yankees won the world series again in 1996, and in 1998 began a run of three consecutive titles. from 1995 to 2007, the yankees made the playoffs each year; their 13-season postseason streak was the second-longest in mlb history. after missing the playoffs in 2008, they won another world series in 2009 and reached the postseason each year from 2010 to 2012. in the most recent mlb season, 2018, new york had a 100–62 record and reached the american league division series before losing to the boston red sox in four games. overall, the yankees' .569 regular season winning percentage is the highest of any mlb team, and they have the eighth-most regular season wins, behind seven clubs founded in the 19th century.
list of new york yankees seasons
bullet::::- in 1964, the new york yankees made the world series for the 15th time in 19 years—but mel allen wasn't there. back in september, before the end of the season, the yankees informed allen that his contract with the team would not be renewed. as been frequently mentioned, in those days, the main announcers for the series participants always called the world series on nbc. although allen was thus technically eligible to call the series, baseball commissioner ford frick honored the yankees' request to have phil rizzuto join the series crew instead. it was the first time allen had missed a world series for which the yankees were eligible since 1943, and only the second world series (not counting those missed during world war ii) that he'd missed since he began calling baseball games in 1938. on december 17, after much media speculation and many letters to the yankees from fans disgruntled at allen's absence from the series, the yankees issued a terse press release announcing allen's firing; he was replaced by joe garagiola. nbc and movietone dropped him soon afterward. to this day, the yankees have never given an explanation for allen's sudden firing, and rumors abounded. depending on the rumor, allen was either homosexual, an alcoholic, a drug addict, or had a nervous breakdown. allen's sexuality was sometimes a target in those more conservative days because he hadn't married (and never did). years later, allen told author curt smith that the yankees had fired him under pressure from the team's longtime sponsor, ballantine beer. according to allen, he was fired as a cost-cutting move by ballantine, which had been experiencing poor sales for years (it would eventually be sold in 1969). smith, in his book "voices of summer", also indicated that the medications allen took in order to maintain his busy schedule may have affected his on-air performance. (stephen borelli, another biographer, has also pointed out that allen's heavy workload didn't allow him time to take care of his health.)
list of world series broadcasters