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- Jackson’s amazing home-run streak helped the Yankees win the game and the series, the team’s first since 1962. During his pre-game batting practice, Jackson was unstoppable: He stepped to the plate and immediately knocked three pitches high into Yankee Stadium’s third-tier seats.
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It was their first pennant since 1986. The Red Sox won 10–3 and became the third team in sports history and the first since the 1975 NHL's New York Islanders to win a seven-game series after losing the first three games. For the Yankees, this was their first time losing an ALCS in eight appearances (their last ALCS elimination was in 1980 ...
The Yankees won the World Series 5 times in a row in the 1949-1953 seasons, 4 times in a row in the 1936-1939 seasons, 3 times in a row in the 1998-2000 seasons, twice in a row in the 1977-1978 seasons, twice in a row in the 1961-1962 seasons, and twice in a row in the 1927-1928 seasons.
The Yankees scored 32 runs in winning the first three games against the Red Sox. They scored 19 runs in the third game. The Red Sox were dead.
World Series Rarities - The Three-Game Winners. During the 1981 World Series, pitcher George Frazier of the Yankees achieved the dubious distinction of losing three games. He was the first to drop three unintentionally (Claude Williams of the infamous Black Sox lost a trio in 1919).
The Yankees advanced to the World Series by defeating the Oakland Athletics, three games to two, in the AL Division Series, and then the Seattle Mariners in the AL Championship Series, four games to one.
1949-53: The Yankees won a record five consecutive World Series. 1955: The World Series MVP Award was given for the first time, with Brooklyn's Johnny Podres taking the honor. 1956: The Yankees' Don Larsen spun the only perfect game in World Series history.
The Yankees advanced to the World Series after beating the Kansas City Royals in an exciting fifth and final 1977 American League Championship Series (ALCS) game, winning it with three runs in the top of the ninth on a string of singles and a costly error by George Brett.
