The Dodgers remain there, two games behind the first-place Giants after they rallied - of course they did - for four runs in the ninth inning of a tie game to win at Coors Field Sunday. 641 mark this season.īut - keeping it 100 - none of those other teams finished in second place in their division. Only the ’63 Yankees (.645) had a better winning percentage than the Dodgers’ current. Since baseball went to a 162-game regular season in 1961, only seven defending champions have won 100 games the season after winning the World Series - the 1963 Yankees (104-57), the 1971 Orioles (101-57), the 1976 Reds (102-60), the 1978 New York Yankees (100-63), the 1990 A’s (103-59), the 2018 Astros (103-59) and the Dodgers. It also puts them in exclusive company among defending World Series champions.
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