the dodgers will be the home team for world series.
who will be home team for world series?
the dodgers
in both the 1955 and 1956 world series, the home team won the first six games of the world series, but lost game 7. it would not be until when the home team won all seven games of a world series. however, the yankees would meet the unfortunate fate of being the first american league team to lose a world series in which the home team won all seven games, in .





















































the 1956 world series would be the last subway series of the 1900s and the last to include one of the national league's charter franchises.
dodgers–yankees rivalry
among several firsts, the 2001 world series was: the first world series championship for the diamondbacks; the first world series ever played in the state of arizona and the mountain time zone; the first championship for a far west state other than california; the first major professional sports team from the state of arizona to win a championship; and the earliest an mlb franchise had ever won a world series (the diamondbacks had only existed for four years). the home team won every game in the series, which had only happened twice before, in 1987 and 1991. the diamondbacks outscored the yankees, 37–14, as a result of large margins of victory achieved by arizona at bank one ballpark relative to the one-run margins the yankees achieved at yankee stadium. arizona's pitching held powerhouse new york to a .183 batting average, the lowest in a seven-game world series. this and the 2002 world series were the last two consecutive world series to have game sevens until the world series of 2016 and 2017. the 2001 world series was the subject of an hbo documentary, "nine innings from ground zero", in 2004.
2001 world series