The Los Angeles Dodgers finished 43-17 during the COVID-19 abbreviated regular season and went on to win their first World Series title since 1988 and eighth overall, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 4 games to 2.... The coronavirus pandemic caused Major League Baseball (MLB) to cancel its season after the original plan to continue playing amid the outbreak fell apart. An agreement was reached on June 1, 2020, to begin a made-up season one week later than originally scheduled. The Dodgers opened the season on April 3 at home against the Arizona Diamondbacks. They ended it on October 1 with a game remaining vs the San Francisco Giants. The championship series was also played over four games and the Dodgers won in five sets to claim their first world series title in 81 years. Los Angeles became the second team this year to win the World Series after losing more than two games during the season behind only the Tokyo Yakult Swallows who set a Japanese professional baseball record by winning 16 in a row before being defeated by the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers are also the first team ever to win back-to-back titles after losing their first two games of the series. A league-high 24 players from the Dodgers were selected during the 2020 MLB Draft, which took place on Thursday, June 11th via live stream.