The wait is over, the Yankees are back in the World Series!

The Yankees will represent the American League in the World Series for the 41st time, and their win-loss record is 134-90, all major league Finals records.

CLEVELAND — With his victory before Cleveland Guardian in American League Championship Seriesthe The New York Yankees are back to World Series by For the first time since 2009when they caught the twenty-seventh. The title of champions, the greatest harvest ever in the major leagues of American baseball.

The Yankees will represent the American League in the World Series for the 41st time, and their win-loss record is 134-90, all Major League Baseball (MLB) Finals records.

The team has been counted since its first final appearance, in 1921, with its 15-year streak without competing for the title equaling the club’s longest, between 1981 and 1996.

Starting next Friday, New York will face the winner of the National League Championship Series, between the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers. If the Dodgers, who dominated the playoff 3-2, advance, the fall classic will begin in Los Angeles, but the Yankees will host the first two games if their neighbors can return.

While the Yankees and Mets have only met once in the World Series (the Yankees won five games in 2000), the Dodgers vs. Yankees combination was the most frequent combination ever in the playoffs, with 11 editions, including seven when the Dodgers were no They still play in New York.

The Dodgers and Yankees faced off in the Classics in 1941, 1947, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1955 and 1956 as Big Apple rivals and, after the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958, they met again in 1963, 1977, 1978 and 1981. The Yankees won eight of those meetings, with the Dodgers winning in 1955, 1963 and 1981.

In 2020, the Dodgers won their seventh championship, sixth behind the Yankees (27), St. Louis Cardinals (11), Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics (9) and San Francisco Giants (8), but their 14 losses in the Finals represents an MLB record , followed by the Yankees (13) and Giants (12).

Since the Yankees made their last celebratory walk, San Francisco has won three times (2010, 2012 and 2014), Boston has won twice (2013 and 2018), the Chicago Cubs have celebrated for the first time in 108 years (2016) and Houston has won the Astros (2017 and 2022) and the Washington Nationals (2019), and the Texas Rangers (2023) with their first championship.