Last weekend, the Yankees were out in Los Angeles playing the Dodgers in a rematch of the 2024 World Series . Both that three-game set and — famously — last year’s Fall Classic did not go ideally for the Yankees.

That and my post Wednesday as part of our ongoing 2000 Yankees Diary series got me thinking about something. Said post was about the Yankees game that happened on June 4, 2000 , when the Yankees took on the Braves in another game that was a rematch of the previous year’s World Series.

Regular season rematches of the previous World Series are something that have only become possible in recent years. Interleague play only began in 1997, and until recently, teams faced just one division per year (and perhaps one consistent interleague rival, like the Mets with the Yankees).

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