The Dodgers finished the 2024 season with a 98–64 record, the best in the majors, and home field advantage throughout the playoffs, although it was the first season the failed to win 100 games in a full season since 2018. For the third time in five years, they faced their division rival San Diego Padres in the 2024 National League Division Series, which they won the series in five games to advance to the 2024 National League Championship Series. They beat the New York Mets in six games to win their first NL pennant since 2020 and 25th overall. They faced the New York Yankees in the 2024 World Series, the twelfth meeting between the two clubs in the World Series and the first since 1981. The Dodgers won the series in five games, highlighted by Freddie Freeman hitting a walk-off grand slam in Game 1, the first in World Series history.