Dodgers win World Series in 5 games, overcome 5-run deficit with help of errors to beat Yankees 7-6

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Members of the Los Angeles Dodgers observe connected the tract aft winning Game 5 to triumph the 2024 World Series presented by Capital One betwixt the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees astatine Yankee Stadium connected Oct. 30, 2024.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers won their 2nd World Series title successful 5 seasons, overcoming a five-run shortage with the assistance of 3 Yankees antiaircraft miscues and rallying connected sacrifice flies from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts successful the eighth inning to bushed New York 7-6 successful Game 5 connected Wednesday night.

Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm Jr. deed back-to-back location runs successful the archetypal inning, Alex Verdugo's RBI single chased Jack Flaherty successful the second and Giancarlo Stanton's third-inning homer against Ryan Brasier built a 5-0 Yankees lead.

But errors by Judge successful halfway and Anthony Volpe astatine shortstop, combined with pitcher Gerrit Cole failing to screen archetypal connected Betts' grounder, helped Los Angeles people 5 unearned runs successful the fifth.

After Stanton's sixth-inning sacrifice alert enactment the Yankees backmost up 6-5, the Dodgers loaded the bases against loser Tommy Kahnle successful the eighth earlier the sacrifice flies disconnected Luke Weaver.

Luke Weaver #30 of the New York Yankees is relieved by manager Aaron Boone #17 during the ninth inning of Game Five of the 2024 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers astatine Yankee Stadium connected Oct. 30.

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Winner Blake Treinen escaped a two-on, one-out jam successful the bottommost fractional by retiring Stanton connected a flyout and striking retired Anthony Rizzo.

Walker Buehler, making his first alleviation quality since his rookie play successful 2018, pitched a cleanable ninth for his archetypal large league save.

When Buehler struck retired Verdugo to extremity the game, the Dodgers poured onto the tract to observe betwixt the mound and archetypal base, capping a play successful which they won 98 games and finished with the champion regular-season record.

Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers' record-setting $700 cardinal signing and baseball's archetypal 50-homer, 50-steal player, went 2 for 19 with nary RBIs and had 1 azygous aft separating his enarthrosis during a stolen basal effort successful Game 2.

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Freddie Freeman deed a two-run azygous to necktie the Series grounds of 12 RBIs, acceptable by Bobby Richardson implicit 7 games successful 1960. With the Dodgers 1 retired from losing Friday's opener, Freeman deed a game-ending expansive slam reminiscent of Kirk Gibson's homer disconnected Oakland's Dennis Eckersley successful 1988's Game 1 that sparked Los Angeles to the title.

The Dodgers earned their eighth title and seventh since leaving Brooklyn for Los Angeles — their archetypal successful a non-shortened play since 1988. They won a neutral-site World Series against Tampa Bay successful 2020 after a 60-game regular play and couldn't person a parade due to the fact that of the coronavirus pandemic.

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