For the second time this decade, the Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions. The Dodgers fought back from down five runs to take Game 5 of the Fall Classic against the New York Yankees, 7-6, to win the eighth title in franchise history.
Freddie Freeman was named the series MVP.
Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm went back-to-back in the first inning, and by the fourth inning, it was a 5-0 lead for New York. However, their biggest issue in shoddy defense would come back to haunt them.
In the fifth inning, Judge dropped a routine line drive. Then, Chisholm couldn’t handle a short throw at third. After that, Gerrit Cole didn’t cover first base on what should have been the third out, which instead was an RBI single. The Dodgers saw an opportunity and pounced, as Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernandez each drove in two runs to tie the game at five.
New York regained the lead in the sixth, but they were again gifted another chance in the eighth. L.A. loaded the bases before recording an out off Tommy Kahnle, prompting Aaron Boone to go with closer Luke Weaver. Gavin Lux, though, tied the game with a sac fly, and then Shohei Ohtani reached base on a catcher’s interference to load the bases again. The next batter, Mookie Betts, hit a sac fly, giving the Dodgers a 7-6 lead.
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