LOS ANGELES — Baseball’s most familiar World Series foes are back together after a 43year break.The Dodgers wrapped up their first National League title since 2020 with an emphatic 10-5 victory over the New York Mets on Sunday night at Dodger Stadium to clinch a meeting with that other New York team – you know, the one with 27 championships – for a record 12th time.But when the Dodgers face the Yankees in Game 1 on Friday at home, they will do so in the World Series for the first time since 1981 after they had regular October encounters over the previous four decades.The course for this collision seemed set most of the season for two teams that are beyond loaded with talent and feature the likely MVPs – the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani in the National League; the Yankees’ Aaron Judge in the American. And the teams combined for 192 victories in the regular season.“You have two great teams with superstars all over the place,” Dodgers utility player Chris Taylor said during the onfield celebration. “This should be a great series.”The secondary ticket market seemed to agree immediately after the Dodgers’ victory. The cheapest ticket listed within an hour after the final pitch was at $1,114 at the top of the reserved level far down the right-field line. Something down low and in the same area code as home plate could cost a mortgage payment.“This is going to be amazing,” Dodgers left fielder Teoscar Hernandez said. “This place is always incredible, but this will be a different level.”When the Dodgers pulled ahead for good Sunday, former Dodgers great Steve Garvey was spotted taking a break from his U.S. Senate campaign – well, he was still talking to voters and posing for pictures, but he was enjoying Game 6.Garvey passed an iconic photo of the celebration following the final out of the 1981 World Series that is on the wall outside the Dodger Stadium press box. In the image, he’s captured jumping up behind reliever Steve Howe and catcher Steve Yeager.“The three Steves,” Garvey remembered wistfully, saying a Dodgers-Yankees World Series will be “nostalgic for all of us who participated in the Yankee-Dodger rivalry.”Garvey said a Dodgers-Yankees matchup will be good for baseball.“Two iconic, historic franchises coming together again,” Garvey said. “It’s going to be great for the game.“It’s the national pastime. It’s America. To get the two biggest cities under ...
