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 have a win-loss record of 134–90, all records for a Major League Finals.

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CLEVELAND — With his triumph before Cleveland Guardians V American League Championship Series, New York Yankees are back To World Series To for the first time since 2009when they caught their 27th. championship, the greatest crop of all time in American Major League Baseball.

The Yankees will represent the American League in the World Series for the 41st time and have a win-loss record of 134-90, a major league (MLB) finals record.

Dating back to their first final in 1921, their 15-year run without a title was the longest in the club’s history, running from 1981 to 1996.

Starting next Friday, New York will face the winner of the National League Championship Series between the New York Mets and Los Angeles Dodgers. If the Dodgers, who dominate the playoffs with a 3-2 record, advance, the fall classic will begin in Los Angeles, but the Yankees will play the first two games if their neighbors manage to return.

While the Yankees and Mets have only met once in the World Series (the Yankees won in five games in 2000), the Dodgers vs. Yankees combination has been the most frequent of all time in the top postseason. : 11 times, including seven while the Dodgers were still playing in New York.

The Dodgers and Yankees faced off in classic games 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 games, with the Dodgers winning in 1955, 1963 and 1981.

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

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