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Based in Los Angeles, California, USA? The Los Angeles Dodgers are a team of Major League Baseball, founded in 1883. The team from Brooklyn, New York. It was formerly known as the Brooklyn Dodgers. The team moved to Los Angeles and became the Los Angeles Dodgers before the 1958 season. The Dodgers currently holds the National League West championship.

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Century Old Rivalry
The rivalry between the Dodgers and Giants is more than a century. It began when the two clubs played in New York. It is more than a century, and is the longest rivalry in baseball history. The rivalry gained a new intensity, when both franchises moved to California in 1958. The cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco have long been rivals in the history of California.

Manager Wilbert Robinson led the team to tour called "Brooklyn Robins" winning pennants in the respective 1916 and 1920 to reach the World Series they lost to the Red Sox in 1916, 4-1. They lost against the Cleveland Indians in 1920.

On April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson played his first game in the major leagues as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He became the first African American to play for a team of Major League Baseball.

"Wait? Til next year!" became an unofficial Dodger slogan that the annual ritual of excitement followed by disappointment has been a common model of long suffering fans. Their? Next year? Finally came in 1955 when they beat the New York Yankees won their first World Series championship in franchise Clinch. This happens to be one series they won in Brooklyn when the team moved to Los Angeles in 1957.

On September 24, 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field. The Dodgers won 2-0 against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Los Angeles Dodgers played their first game in Los Angeles April 18, 1958. They defeated the San Francisco Giants, former New York Giants, 6-5, before 78,672 fans at Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles.

Pitchers on the list:
Chad Billingsley
Jason Johnson
Clayton Kershaw
Hong-Chih Kuo
Hiroki Kuroda
Derek Lowe
Greg Maddux
James McDonald

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The Dodgers came in 2006 in the playoffs of the National League Wild Card spot is. They faced the New York Mets 2006 National League Division where she was finally swept, 3-0.

In 2007, the Dodgers had a record of 54-41, then the best record in the National League, but fell to 60-59. They had seven games of first place in the West of the National League. The Dodgers were able to improve their position 79-69 record with three weeks to go in the season. They were behind the San Diego Padres by 1 1 / 2 games in the wild card slot. They have lost 10 of their next 11 games, which was eliminated from play this season. She finished the season with a disappointing 82-80 record.

The Dodgers won the 2008 National League West Division title on September 25 as the Arizona Diamondbacks were eliminated by losing to the St. Louis Cardinals 12-3. On October 4, 2008 beating the Cubs 3-0 to sweep the NLDS in 2008 and the NLC is finite, where they face the Philadelphia Phillies were eliminated and lost the series 4-2.

Fans should certainly look forward to the Los Angeles Dodgers in their National League Division title to defend West in the season to come and take a shot at another World Series games in the future.