All throughout the National League Championship Series, as Los Angeles Dodgers hitters took pitch after pitch outside the strike zone and jammed up the diamond with base runner after base runner, the resolve of the New York Mets tried to withstand the barrage to keep their season alive.

It’s a matchup many baseball fans have wanted for months, and a series decades in the making — the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series. The Dodgers doubled up on the New York Mets in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series Sunday night and will face the Yankees in the Fall

They play a World Series every year. But a World Series like this one comes around about as often as Halley’s Comet.