Los Angeles Dodgers Continue August Success, Accomplish Feat Not Seen in 142 Years

The Los Angeles Dodgers, as they've done for the past four years, have caught fire in August.

A win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday helped the Dodgers improve to a league-best 23-4 since Aug. 1. With their latest victory, Los Angeles now holds a 13.5-game lead over the San Francisco Giants for first place in the NL West at 82-49.

This is nothing new for the Dodgers, as they went 21-7 in August 2020, then 21-6 in August 2021 and 22-6 in August 2022.

According to OptaSTATS, the Dodgers are the first team to have a winning percentage of .750 or better in the same calendar month for four years in a row – minimum 10 games played – in well over a century. The Chicago White Stockings – now the Chicago Cubs, ironically – are the only have team to have achieved the same feat, doing so in June from 1878 to 1881, which was 20 years before MLB even began.

The @Dodgers in August:

2020: 21-7 (.750)
2021: 21-6 (.778)
2022: 22-6 (.786)
2023: 23-4 (.852)

The only other team in MLB history to have a .750+ winning percentage in the same month 4 years in a row (min. 10 games) was the Chicago White Stockings in June from 1878 to 1881. pic.twitter.com/2hOfUF5w6y
— OptaSTATS (@OptaSTATS) August 30, 2023

Los Angeles opened August on a tear, riding an 11-game winning streak to a 15-1 start to the month. The Dodgers' 8-3 record since is, therefore, technically a bit of a dropoff, even if they've won all four of their series in the span.

The Dodgers host the Diamondbacks again Wednesday at 10:10 p.m. ET, then face the Atlanta Braves on Thursday at 10:10 p.m. ET to close out August.

Even if both of those games go down as losses, Los Angeles' monthly winning percentage cannot dip below .793. If the Dodgers win both of those games, they would end August at 25-4 – identical to the record the Cleveland Indians put up back in September 2017 when they went on an American League-record 22-game winning streak.

That still would not match the winning percentage the Dodgers put up in July 2017, however, when they went on a 20-3 tear en route to their first World Series appearance in 29 years.

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