1981 World Series
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| Dates | October 20–28 | ||||||||||||
| MVP | Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero, and Steve Yeager (Los Angeles) | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | Larry Barnett (AL), Nick Colosi (NL), Terry Cooney (AL), Doug Harvey (NL), Rich Garcia (AL), Dick Stello (NL) | ||||||||||||
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Umpire: Doug Harvey Dodgers: Tommy Lasorda (mgr.). Yankees: Goose Gossage, Reggie Jackson, Bob Lemon (mgr.), Dave Winfield. |
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| ALCS | New York Yankees over Oakland Athletics (3–0) | ||||||||||||
| NLCS | Los Angeles Dodgers over Montreal Expos (3–2) | ||||||||||||
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| Television | ABC | ||||||||||||
| TV announcers | Keith Jackson (Games 1, 2, 6), Al Michaels (Games 3, 4, 5) , Howard Cosell and Jim Palmer | ||||||||||||
| Radio | CBS | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Vin Scully and Sparky Anderson | ||||||||||||
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| Los Angeles Dodgers (4) | Tommy Lasorda | 36–21, .632, GA: ½ (1st Half) 27–26, .509, GB: 6 (2nd Half) |
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| New York Yankees (2) | Bob Lemon | 34–22, .607, GA: 2 (1st Half) 25–26, .490, GB: 5 (2nd Half) |
The 1981 World Series matched the New York Yankees against the Los Angeles Dodgers, marking their third meeting in the Series in five years as well as a record eleventh Series meeting overall and last Series meeting to date. The Dodgers won the Series in six games in a reverse carbon copy of the last Series meeting between them in 1978, for their first title since 1965 and their first victory over the Yankees since 1963 and third over them overall.
This is the last World Series that a team won after losing the first two games on the road. This also was the last meeting between teams from New York City and Los Angeles for a major professional sports championship until the Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers reached the NHL's 2014 Stanley Cup Finals.
Due to the players' strike, which ran from June 12 to August 8, the 1981 season was split into two halves, with the first-place teams from each half in each division (or a wild card team if the same club won both halves) meeting in a best-of-five divisional playoff series. The four survivors would then move on to the two best-of-five League Championship Series. The expanded playoffs led to Game 1 of the World Series being pushed back to October 20, the latest starting date for a Fall Classic up to that time.
In the National League, the Dodgers led the National League West prior to the strike. The Houston Astros, however, won the second-half division title. The Dodgers then defeated the Astros, three games to two, in the National League Division Series before beating the Montreal Expos, three games to two, in the National League Championship Series.
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