At its core, baseball is a sport defined by numbers. Here are the three that mattered from the 2024 MLB postseason: 5, 11 and 1.Over the 4,860 games that were played during the 2024 MLB regular season, 12 teams were selected to play for, the five games that the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers ultimately battled in, the World Series. After the Dodgers rolled out to a 3-0 lead, the Yankees pulled off a historic Game 4 win by scoring 11 runs to LA’s four. A day later, the Dodgers lifted the Commissioner’s Trophy for the eighth time in franchise history.