-- The powerful New York Yankees won their 19th world series in a 5-game romp over outclassed Cincinnati, crushing the Reds in a humiliating 13-5 barrage Monday in the loosely played finale.

Members of the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers have won the most awards of any franchise ( with 16 ), twice the total of the New York Yankees ( eight ), who have produced the most in the American League.

In 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the New York Yankees won the Eastern Division series over the Milwaukee Brewers ( who were in the American League until 1998 ) in five games while the Oakland Athletics swept the Kansas City Royals in three games in the Western Division.

The Orioles won 100 games in 1980 thanks to Cy Young Winner Steve Stone, but the Yankees won 103 games.

However, Cleveland only won a single pennant in the decade, in 1954, finishing second to the New York Yankees five times.

That mark set an American League record for wins which stood for 44 years until the Yankees won 114 games in 1998 ( a 162-game regular season ).

The Marlins won the series despite scoring fewer runs ( 17 ) than the Yankees ( 21 ).

The following autumn, Robinson won his only championship when the Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in the 1955 World Series.

Following the tension of Game Six, the Cardinals pitching and defense came undone in Game 7 and their offense was shut down by Saberhagen leading to the lowest batting average to date (. 188 by the Cardinals, later broken by 2001 Yankees ) and fewest runs ( 13 for the Cardinals, still stands ) of any team in a 7 game series, and the Royals won 11 – 0 to clinch the franchise's only World Series title.

Iván Rodríguez won for the Texas Rangers in 1999, previous to that, the last catcher to win an AL MVP was the New York Yankees Thurman Munson in 1976.

The Brewers won the second half of the 1981 season ( divided because of a players ' strike ) and played the Yankees in a playoff mini-series they ultimately lost.

Prior to the 1999 season, Clemens was traded to the New York Yankees where he won his only two World Series titles.

In 1999 and, he won World Series titles with the Yankees.

The Yankees won the 2000 World Series.

The organization did not field a winning team until 1991, and any real success eluded them until when they won their first division championship and defeated the New York Yankees in the American League Division Series.

During this time the Giants won three pennants, defeating the Senators in the 1933 World Series and losing to the Yankees in 1936 and 1937.

The Yankees won five of these series.

The Padres won three of four in the Steel City and during the series the Pirates traded former Padre underachiever Xavier Nady to the Yankees for prospects.

Neither of Oates ' last two playoff teams could win a single game, losing all 6 in back-to-back sweeps at the hands of the Yankees, a team that won 3 World Championships in the 1990s after defeating Rangers teams in the first round.

The Yankees won the first of what would be five straight World Series titles in 1949.

For the rest of Williams ' career, the Yankees won eight pennants and five World Series titles, while the Red Sox never finished better than third place.

* October 13 – The Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1960 World Series of baseball in Game 7, on a home run hit by Bill Mazeroski for a 10 – 9 victory over the New York Yankees.

The New York Yankees won the series.

In, the Yankees won their first American League pennant ( but lost the then-best-of-nine 1921 World Series to the Giants in eight games, all played at the Polo Grounds ).

The Yankees have currently played in the most division series in history, with fifteen appearances.

The two teams played a one-game playoff for the division title at Fenway Park, with the Yankees winning 5 – 4.

The Yankees failed to improve, however, and their streak of American League East division titles ended at three.

Martin won the American League West Division title in the split season of, swept the Kansas City Royals in the special division series ( due to a players ' strike-action ), and then met the Yankees in the 1981 ALCS where his A's were swept by the Yankees.

Bell caught a fly ball, off the bat of Ron Hassey, for the final out in the 5 – 1 victory over the New York Yankees on October 5, clinching the division title for the Blue Jays.

He was 5 – 0 against the Yankees ' division rival Red Sox and finished the season 17 – 8 with a 3. 79 ERA, and was second in the AL with 211 strikeouts.

Because the Yankees were last in a postseason in a season interrupted by strike, they had to endure constant media reminders of the parallels between the two Yankee teams, ( 1981 and 1994 ) which included both Yankee teams having division leads taken away by strike.

In 1994, with O ' Neill winning the batting title, the Yankees led the East division by six and a half games when the players ' lockout ended the season.

Dent is widely remembered for hitting a three-run homer that gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead in the 1978 AL East division playoff game against the Boston Red Sox.

The Yankees went on to win the game 5-4, securing the division title in the process.

With a consistent offense, great pitching and the best defense in the league, the Cyclones powered their way to winning its fourth McNamara division title and sweeping the SI Yankees in two straight games in the NYPL opening playoff round.

" the Yankees defeated Boston for the division title in their famed tie-breaker game, punctuated both by a dramatic three-run home run by Bucky Dent in the seventh inning, and an eighth-inning homer by Reggie Jackson that proved the game's winning run.

The Yankees ran away with the AL East division title by mid-September 2006, but were eliminated by the Detroit Tigers in the 2006 American League Division Series.

From 1977 through 1983 he never recorded an earned run average over 2. 62, including a mark of 0. 77 in, and in he finished third in AL voting for both the MVP Award and Cy Young Award as the Yankees won a division title.

On October 2,, he earned the save in the Yankees ' one-game playoff against the Boston Red Sox for the AL East title, entering with one out in the seventh inning and a 4-2 lead following Bucky Dent's home run ; although he allowed two runs in the eighth inning, he held on to preserve the 5-4 victory, getting Carl Yastrzemski to pop up to third baseman Graig Nettles with two out and two men on base in the ninth inning to clinch the division championship.

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Bradley's team finished second in its division in its first year, playing at Yankee Stadium, home of the New York Yankees baseball team.

The 2008 season was the most successful in franchise history as the Yankees finished 88 – 56, won another division championship, and earned their first league title.

The Angels won the division series against the Yankees in 4 games.

Rodriguez got his first 2 career postseason saves during the 2005 ALDS as the Angels won the division series against the Yankees in 5 games.

Guidry's 25th win of the regular season was his most significant, as he was the winning pitcher in the Yankees ' 5-4 win over the Boston Red Sox in a one-game playoff at Fenway Park in Boston to decide the American League East division winner.

He was traded to the New York Yankees in a ten player deal in the middle of the 1976 season and went 10-5 to help the Yankees win the American League east division.