The Yankees had a .398 OPS differential in Game 5, the highest ever for a losing team in The World Series (and by a wide margin)

I called up all the team games with runs greater than or equal to zero using Stathead's game finder for World Series games.

Then after getting the data arranged I calculated the OPS differential for all the losing teams. The Yankees had the greatest OPS differential ever for a losing team in a World Series game.

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The Yankees had a .959 OPS in Game 5. The Dodgers had .561. That .398 differential is the highest ever in a World Series game for a team that lost.

The previous record was .325 by the White Sox in game 3 of the 1959 World Series. They lost 3-1 but beat the Dodgers in OPS .789-.464.

So the Yankees beat the old record by .073.

Here is the top 10:

Year	Game	Loser	Winner	LOPS	WOPS	Diff
2024	5	Yankees	Dodgers	0.959	0.561	0.398
1959	3	White Sox	Dodgers	0.789	0.464	0.325
1986	6	Red Sox	Mets	0.824	0.515	0.309
1980	5	Royals	Phillies	0.877	0.569	0.308
1979	4	Pirates	Orioles	1.129	0.837	0.292
1949	3	Dodgers	Yankees	0.729	0.438	0.291
1954	2	Indians	Giants	0.732	0.45	0.282
1947	4	Yankees	Dodgers	0.658	0.382	0.276
1926	7	Yankees	Cardinals	0.743	0.471	0.272
1944	1	Cardinals	Browns	0.587	0.329	0.258

LOPS is the OPS for the losing team and WOPS is the OPS for the winning team.