The Dodgers win the World Series! Los Angeles secures dramatic Game 5 comeback after Yankees disaster
The Dodgers won an eighth World Series in dramatic fashion on Wednesday evening after a remarkable comeback against the Yankees.
New York, trailing 3-1 in the series, raced to a 5-0 lead and appeared on its way to a second straight victory.
But a catastrophic fifth inning saw the Yankees give up five runs and allow the Dodgers to tie the game.
Then, after the Yankees took the lead again, Los Angeles scored two late runs to secure a 7–6 victory – and a 4–1 series victory.
After avoiding a sweep on Tuesday night, Aaron Judge and Co. hoped to force a Game 6 and bring the best-of-seven series back to Los Angeles.
Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts celebrate during the Dodgers’ remarkable comeback
Gerrit Cole threw 103 pitches on a wild night, including one terrible inning in the fifth
The Yankees got off to the perfect start, with Judge hitting a two-run homer before Jazz Chisholm extended New York’s lead in the bottom of the first inning.
But the game changed when he assessed one of the Yankees’ many mistakes in the fifth inning that helped the Dodgers fight back.
It was a comeback befitting an exciting series that started with Freddie Freeman’s historic walk-off grand slam and included a remarkable collision between Mookie Betts and two Yankees fans in Game 4.
On the comeback, Betts said, “It was love, it was guts, it was just a beautiful thing. I’m proud of us, I’m happy for us.’
A Yankees fan stands up for himself with a homemade sign addressed to Mookie Betts
The sun sets over Yankee Stadium in the hours before Game 5 of the World Series
It was another sellout crowd in the Bronx to see the Yankees take on the rival Dodgers