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Damn Yankees

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The Yankees won 103 games in 1954, the most yet for a Stengel-managed team, but the Indians took the pennant with an AL record 111 wins. One year later, the 1955 Yankees faced the Dodgers in

the World Series. After the teams split the first six games of the Series, the Yankees lost the seventh and final game 2–0, giving the Dodgers their first Series win. In 1956, Mantle won the MVP award for a season in which he led the AL and MLB in batting average - .353, home runs - 52, and RBIs - 130, becoming the second Yankee, after Gehrig in 1934, to win a Triple Crown. The 1956 Yankees won the franchise's seventh AL championship under Stengel and advanced to a World Series rematch with the

Dodgers. In Game 5, with the Series even at 2–2, Yankees pitcher