The Dodgers clinched the National League West on Thursday afternoon with a win over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix, winning their fourth straight division title and 12th in 13 years. The Dodgers winning the NL West was expected, but the path was much more turbulent than many projected.

The Dodgers this year will finish with their worst record since 2018 (91-72), but their victory on Thursday gave them 90 wins for the 12th full season in a row, a stretch that was only interrupted by a 43-17 (.717) 2020 season. The only other team in major league history to win 90 games 12 full years in a row was the New York Yankees, from 1947-58.

Caveat here: ninety wins in a 162-game schedule is roughly the same as 86 wins in the old 154-game schedule. The Yankees had 13 straight years of 86 or mor

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