Dodgers win World Series in 5 games, overcome 5-run deficit with help of errors to beat Yankees 7-6

NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers won their 2nd World Series title successful 5 seasons, overcoming a five-run shortage pinch nan thief of 3 Yankees protect miscues and rallying connected sacrifice flies from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts successful nan eighth inning to hit New York 7-6 successful Game 5 connected Wednesday night.

Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm Jr. deed back-to-back location runs successful nan first inning, Alex Verdugo’s RBI azygous chased Jack Flaherty successful nan second and Giancarlo Stanton’s third-inning homer against Ryan Brasier built a 5-0 Yankees lead.

But errors by Judge successful halfway and Anthony Volpe astatine shortstop, mixed pinch pitcher Gerrit Cole failing to screen first connected Betts’ grounder, helped Los Angeles people 5 unearned runs successful nan fifth.

After Stanton’s sixth-inning sacrifice alert put nan Yankees backmost up 6-5, nan Dodgers loaded nan bases against loser Tommy Kahnle successful nan eighth earlier nan sacrifice flies disconnected Luke Weaver.

Winner Blake Treinen escaped a two-on, one-out jam successful nan bottommost half by retiring Stanton connected a flyout and striking retired Anthony Rizzo.

Walker Buehler, making his first alleviation quality since his rookie play successful 2018, sounded a cleanable ninth for his first awesome convention save.

“We’re evidently resilient, but there’s truthful overmuch emotion successful nan clubhouse that won this crippled today,” Betts said. “That’s what it was. It was love, it was grit. I mean, it was conscionable a beautiful thing. I’m conscionable proud of america and I’m happy for us.”

When Buehler struck retired Verdugo to extremity nan game, nan Dodgers poured onto nan section to observe betwixt nan mound and first base, capping a play successful which they won 98 games and vanished pinch nan champion regular-season record.

“There’s conscionable a batch of ways we tin triumph shot games,” Buehler said. “Obviously nan superstars we person connected our squad and nan discipline, it conscionable benignant of each adds up.”

Shohei Ohtani, nan Dodgers’ record-setting $700 cardinal signing and baseball’s first 50-homer, 50-steal player, went 2 for 19 pinch nary RBIs and had 1 azygous aft separating his enarthrosis during a stolen guidelines effort successful Game 2.

Freddie Freeman deed a two-run azygous to necktie nan Series grounds of 12 RBIs, group by Bobby Richardson complete 7 games successful 1960. With nan Dodgers 1 retired from losing Friday’s opener, Freeman deed a game-ending expansive slam reminiscent of Kirk Gibson’s homer disconnected Oakland’s Dennis Eckersley successful 1988’s Game 1 that sparked Los Angeles to nan title.

The Dodgers earned their eighth title and seventh since leaving Brooklyn for Los Angeles — their first successful a non-shortened play since 1988. They won a neutral-site World Series against Tampa Bay successful 2020 aft a 60-game regular play and couldn’t person a parade because of nan coronavirus pandemic.

These Dodgers of Ohtani, Freeman & Betts joined nan 1955 Duke Snider and Roy Campanella Boys of Summer, nan Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale era that spanned nan 3 titles from 1959-65, nan Tommy Lasorda-led groups 1981 and ’88 and nan Betts and Clayton Kershaw champions of 2020.

Dave Roberts won his 2nd title successful 9 seasons arsenic head arsenic nan Dodgers, matching Lasorda and trailing nan 4 of Walter Alston. The Dodgers won for nan 4th clip successful 12 Series meetings pinch nan Yankees.

New York remained without a title since winning its grounds 27th successful 2009. The Yankees acquired Juan Soto from San Diego successful December knowing he would beryllium eligible for free agency aft nan 2024 Series. The 26-year-old prima went 5 for 16 1 RBI successful nan Series heading into intensely followed bidding connected nan unfastened market.

Judge vanished 4 for 18 pinch 3 RBIs.

Cole didn’t let a deed until Kiké Hernández singled starring disconnected nan fifth. Judge, who an inning earlier made a leaping drawback astatine nan wall to contradict Freeman an extra-base hit, dropped Tommy Edman’s alert to center. Shortstop Anthony Volpe past bounced a propulsion to 3rd connected Will Smith’s grounder, allowing nan Dodgers to load nan bases pinch nary outs.

Cole struck retired Lux and Ohtani, and Betts deed a grounder to Rizzo. Cole didn’t screen first, pointing astatine Rizzo to tally to nan container arsenic Betts outraced nan first baseman.

Freeman followed pinch a two-run azygous and Teoscar Hernández deed a tying two-run double. Max Muncy walked earlier Kiké Hernández grounded into a forceout connected Cole’s 48th transportation of nan inning.

“We conscionable return advantage of each correction they made successful that inning,” Teoscar Hernández said. “We put immoderate bully at-bats together. We put nan shot successful play.”

Stanton’s sixth-inning sacrifice alert disconnected Brusdar Graterol put nan Yankees up 6-5, but nan Dodgers rallied 1 past clip successful nan eighth.

Kiké Hernández singled disconnected Tommy Kahnle starring off. Edman followed pinch an infield deed and Smith walked connected 4 pitches. Lux’s sacrifice alert disconnected Luke Weaver tied nan score. Ohtani reached connected catcher’s interference and Betts followed pinch different sacrifice alert to springiness nan Dodgers their first lead.

Purchased by Guggenheim Baseball Management successful 2012, nan Dodgers hired Andrew Friedman from Tampa Bay to caput their shot operations 2 years later. He boosted nan beforehand agency pinch a multitude of analytics and capacity subject staff, and ownership supplied nan cash.

Los Angeles went connected an unprecedented $1.25 cardinal spending spree past offseason connected deals pinch Ohtani, pitchers Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and James Paxton, and outfielder Teoscar Hernández. Much of nan money was early obligations that raised nan Dodgers’ deferred compensation to $915.5 cardinal owed from 2028-44.

Faced pinch injuries, nan Dodgers acquired Flaherty, Edman and reliever Michael Kopech up of nan waste and acquisition deadline, and each became important cogs successful nan title run. The additions boosted payroll to $266 million, 3rd down nan Mets and nan Yankees, positive a projected $43 cardinal luxury tax.

UP NEXT

Los Angeles opens its outpouring schedule connected Feb. 20 against nan Chicago Cubs astatine Camelback Ranch, and nan Yankees commencement nan adjacent time against Tampa Bay successful Tampa, Florida.

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