How may World Series have the Los Angeles Dodgers lost?

Since moving from Brooklyn, New York to Los Angeles, the Dodgers have appeared in eight World Series -- in 1959, 1963, 1965, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1988. They lost in 1974 to the Oakland A's, and in 1977 and 1978 to the New York Yankees.