2024 World Series
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| Dates | October 25–30 | |||||||||
| Venue(s) | Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles) Yankee Stadium (New York) | |||||||||
| MVP | Freddie Freeman (Los Angeles) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Mark Carlson (crew chief), Doug Eddings, Chad Fairchild, Andy Fletcher, Mark Ripperger, Todd Tichenor, Carlos Torres | |||||||||
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| Television | Fox (United States – English) Fox Deportes (United States – Spanish) Univision (United States – Spanish) (Game 1) MLB International (International) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Joe Davis, John Smoltz, Ken Rosenthal, and Tom Verducci (Fox) Adrián García Márquez, Edgar González, Carlos Álvarez, and Jaime Motta (Fox Deportes) Antonio de Valdés, Enrique Burak, Nelson Cruz, Daniel Nohra, and Luis Alberto Martínez (Univision) Dave Flemming and Ryan Spilborghs (MLB International – English) | |||||||||
| Radio | ESPN (United States – English) TUDN (United States – Spanish) KLAC (LAD – English) KTNQ (LAD – Spanish) WFAN (NYY – English) WADO (NYY – Spanish) | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jon Sciambi, Jessica Mendoza, Eduardo Pérez, and Buster Olney (ESPN) Alberto Ferreiro and Luis Quiñones (TUDN) Stephen Nelson and Rick Monday (KLAC) Pepe Yñiguez and José Mota (KTNQ) John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman (WFAN) Rickie Ricardo and Francisco Rivera (WADO) | |||||||||
| ALCS | New York Yankees over Cleveland Guardians (4–1) | |||||||||
| NLCS | Los Angeles Dodgers over New York Mets (4–2) | |||||||||
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The 2024 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2024 season. The 120th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the National League (NL) champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the American League (AL) champion New York Yankees. It was the Dodgers' first World Series appearance and win since the 2020, their first full-season appearance since 2018, and the Yankees' first World Series appearance since 2009. The series began on October 25 and ended on October 30 with the Dodgers winning in five games. Freddie Freeman was named the MVP of the series, tying a World Series record with 12 runs batted in (RBIs) and hitting home runs in the first four games of the series, including Game 1 when he hit the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history. This was the first full-season World Series championship for the Dodgers since the 1988 World Series not including the COVID-19-shortened 2020 MLB season.
The Dodgers and Yankees entered the 2024 MLB postseason as the top seeds in their respective leagues. The Dodgers had home-field advantage in the series due to their better regular season win-loss record. It was the 12th time in the Dodgers–Yankees rivalry that the teams have met in the World Series, but this was the first instance since 1981.
Coming into the series, the two teams had played 66 World Series games against each other all-time, in which the Yankees had a 37–29 record along with an 8–3 World Series record. The 66 head-to-head World Series games was the most between any two teams by far, with the second most being 43 games between the Yankees and the New York/San Francisco Giants. The teams had previously faced each other at least once per decade from the 1940s through the 1980s. The Yankees held a 6–1 edge in the World Series rivalry during the Brooklyn Dodgers/Subway Series era, and the teams were 2–2 following the Dodgers' relocation to Los Angeles.
In their 2024 World Series meeting, the Dodgers took a 3–0 series lead before losing Game 4 in New York. They would win their eighth World Series title the next day, coming back from a 5–0 deficit, a record for most runs to come from behind in a World Series-clinching game, and a game most remembered for a three-error fifth inning from the Yankees' defense. In addition, superstar players Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani made their World Series debuts this Series.