Tommy Edman and Will Smith homered to send Shohei Ohtani into the World Series for the first time, and the Los Angeles Dodgers eliminated the New York Mets with a 10-5 victory in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday night.

Even as the sport and the country have changed, the rivalry has produced some of baseball’s most memorable moments.

Two of the three highest-rated World Series games in history featured the New York Yankees playing the Los Angeles Dodgers. The clinching Game 6 of the 1978 Wor