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10 most disappointing Dodgers teams that came up short

By Matt Graves

Los Angeles Dodgers l(Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
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NEW YORK – OCTOBER 4TH, 1953. The starting pitchers for game four of the 1953 World Series, Whitey Ford, left, of the Yankees and Billy Loes of the Dodgers, pose for a photo on October 4th In Ebbets Field. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images)
NEW YORK – OCTOBER 4TH, 1953. The starting pitchers for game four of the 1953 World Series, Whitey Ford, left, of the Yankees and Billy Loes of the Dodgers, pose for a photo on October 4th In Ebbets Field. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images) /

 Dodgers disappointment No. 2: 1953 season

Record: 105-49

Playoff Result: Lost WS 4-2

The Dodgers’ 1953 record remained the highest amount of wins the club had won in a season until 2019. Another dominant season for Brooklyn meant it was the Dodgers and Yankees once again in the World Series.

The Bronx Bombers opened up the Series by winning the first two games at Yankee Stadium. Brooklyn battled back in Game 3 thanks to a strong effort by Carl Erskine. “Oisk,” as Brooklyn fans called him, set a World Series record with 14 strikeouts.

With the Dodgers tying up the Series in Game 4, it was all Yankees in Games 5 and 6.

In danger of elimination, Duke Snider’s one-out walk led Carl Furillo to hammer a two-run homer to tie up the contest. However, Billy Martin, a year after his game-saving catch in Game 7, again ruined the Dodger’s dreams of a championship. In the bottom of the ninth, Martin drilled a single up the middle for a title-winning run.

Dropping their seventh Series without a title, the Dodgers terminated the contract of manager Chuck Dressen. Walter Aston took his place, leading the team to four World Series championships over the next 23 seasons (1955, 1959, 1963, 1965).

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