World Series News
World Series News – The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees with 7-6 score on Wednesday and win their eighth championship in franchise history.
They really needed a reasonable comeback in Game 5 to pull it off, rallying from a 5-0 deficit at Yankee Stadium.
Walker Buehler, who started Game 3 just two days earlier, recorded the game’s final three outs to close out the game — and the season.
A topsy-turvy game was turned upside down at its halfway point as the Dodgers capitalize Yankees fielding errors in the top of the fifth inning to level the scores.
“We just took advantage of every mistake they made in that inning and scored five runs,” left fielder Teoscar Hernandez said.
It is a 2nd title in the last five years for the National League champions, who had previously won in the Covid-shortened 2020 season.
Facing elimination, the Yankees came out swinging in the Bronx as back-to-back first-inning home runs by Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm Jr put them 3-0 up.
Much of the pre-series attention had been on Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani, making his first appearance in the post-season after a stellar first year with the Dodgers.
The 30-year-old is a rare ‘two-way’ player, able to compete at the highest level as both a hitter and a pitcher, but did not pitch during 2024 after having elbow surgery.
While the Yankees’ fielding and baserunning was occasionally sloppy, the Dodgers gave no quarter, and this final game exemplified how their injury-hit pitching staff collectively pulled together to help deliver the title.
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Friedman and the Dodgers will be aiming to improve again over the winter but already have key players on long-term contracts, like Ohtani, who will be like a new signing again next season.
Current year’s probable National League MVP is unique in that he is an elite player at pitching and hitting, and able to pitch for the first time as a Dodger after elbow surgery prevented him from stepping to the mound this year.