The team from Los Angeles got the decisive final point from the Yankees – but things didn’t look good at first.
What a comeback, what a triumph: The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series after a dramatic game. The team from California secured its second Major League Baseball championship in five years and its eighth overall at Yankee Stadium in New York – although the Dodgers were already down 5-0 in game five.
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But a disastrous fifth inning by the Yankees with a series of defensive errors brought Los Angeles back into the game, and the Dodgers ended up winning 7-6 – and clinching the best-of-seven series 4-1. “We just took advantage of every mistake they made in that inning,” Teoscar Hernandez said.
“Indestructible”: Historic comeback”
The five-run comeback was loud ESPN the fourth-largest in World Series history: only the Athletics’ eight-run comeback in 1929 against the Cubs, the Yankees’ six-run comeback in 1996 against the Braves and the Dodgers’ six-run comeback in 1956 against the Yankees was the The gap is even bigger.
“Obviously we are indestructible,” said Dodgers shortstop Markus Lynn “Mookie” Betts. Despite the early deficit, everyone was there for everyone: “It was love, it was fighting spirit. It was just a beautiful thing and I’m just proud of us and happy for us.”
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Dodgers star Frederick Freeman became the most valuable player of the series; the first baseman hit four home runs in a row in the four games.
With their second title in five years, the Dodgers reward themselves for their dominance. Loud ESPN They are the first team since the New York Yankees in the 1950s (1953-1957) to win multiple World Series games and win more than 64 percent of games during that period.
with Sports Information Service (SID)