The 1977 Los Angeles Dodgers season had Tommy Lasorda replace longtime manager Walter Alston as Manager of the team. The Dodgers won the National League West by 10 games and defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in four games in the NLCS, then lost to the New York Yankees in the World Series.
The players of the 1977 LA Dodgers team had never made it that far before Tommy Lasorda was manager. 
That is incorrect. The Dodgers had won the World Series before 1977. 