The Dodgers won an eighth World Series successful melodramatic manner connected Wednesday nighttime aft a singular comeback against nan Yankees.
New York, trailing 3-1 successful nan series, raced into a 5-0 lead and looked to beryllium cruising to a 2nd successive victory.
But a catastrophic 5th inning saw nan Yankees springiness up 5 runs and let nan Dodgers to level nan game.
Then, aft nan Yankees edged up erstwhile more, Los Angeles scored 2 precocious runs to unafraid a 7-6 triumph - and a 4-1 bid victory. No squad has ever earlier erased a five-run shortage to clinch nan World Series.
Having avoided a expanse connected Tuesday night, Aaron Judge and Co were hoping to unit a Game 6 and return nan best-of-seven bid backmost to Los Angeles.
The Dodgers completed a melodramatic comeback to hit nan Yankees and triumph nan World Series
Pitcher Walker Buehler celebrates aft triumph was secured astatine Yankee Stadium connected Wednesday
'It was love, it was grit, it was conscionable a beautiful thing,' Mookie Betts aft triumph was sealed
Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts observe during nan Dodgers' singular comeback
The Yankees made nan cleanable start, pinch Judge hitting a two-run homer earlier Jazz Chisholm extended New York's lead astatine nan bottommost of nan first.
But nan crippled changed erstwhile Judge 1 of respective Yankees errors successful nan 5th inning that helped nan Dodgers conflict back.
It was a comeback befitting an electrifying series, which began pinch Freddie Freeman's historical walk-off expansive slam and included a singular conflict betwixt Mookie Betts and 2 Yankees instrumentality successful Game 4.
On nan comeback, Betts said: 'It was love, it was grit, it was conscionable a beautiful thing. I'm proud of us, I'm happy for us.'
Coach Dave Roberts added: 'I convey god, I convey my players, their families... nan fingerprints connected Dodger nation...this trophy belongs to everyone.'
It's nan Dodgers' first title since 2020, erstwhile they were denied a parade because of nan coronavirus pandemic.
Freeman was named MVP aft a remarkable, history-making bid which saw him people location runs successful each of nan first 4 games.
Gerrit Cole threw 103 pitches connected a chaotic nighttime that included 1 unspeakable inning successful nan fifth
A Yankees instrumentality sticks up for his ain pinch a homemade motion directed astatine Mookie Betts
The sun sets complete Yankee Stadium successful nan hours earlier Game 5 of nan World Series
It was different sold-out crowd successful nan Bronx to spot nan Yankees return connected nan rival Dodgers