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For the first time in 43 years, the classic rivalry between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees will resume on baseball’s biggest stage: The World Series.
It’s the 12th matchup for these teams — who were crosstown New York City rivals in the first decades of Major League Baseball. The last time these storied franchises met was in 1981 when the Dodgers bested the Yankees 4 games to 2.
This time around, if you are a betting person, Vegas says the odds favor the Boys in Blue again.
L.A. also has home field advantage, earned by clinching baseball’s best regular season record. That means the first two games, Friday and Saturday, will be played at Dodger Stadium.
Many of you New Yorkers are no strangers to L.A. — after all, who hasn’t clocked time in the best city on earth. But since that level of familiarity might not extend to our baseball park, here’s a Dodger Stadium guide for all you Yankees fans out there.
It’s the least we can do, I mean, you have come all the way to L.A. to watch the Dodgers win. And come on, you are New Yorkers, we know you can take a ribbing.
About the traffic
Yeah, there’s no sugarcoating it — traffic’s going to be bad. The smart bet is to get to the stadium early, hang out and enjoy the sunset, beer and premium L.A. ballpark weather.
Expect mostly sunny skies, with highs in the low 80s, so it’ll make for prime hangout conditions. We sincerely urge you to skip the frustration unique to next-level L.A. congestion brought on by World Series baseball.
There are public transportation options, too. That said, we’ll have to give this one to you, New York. Los Angeles doesn’t have a subway station that is spitting distance from our ballpark, but give us a break, we’ve been working hard on expanding our rail and light rail lines in the last decade.
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