Members of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate on the field after winning Game 5 to win the 2024 World Series presented by Capital One between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on October 30, 2024.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers won their second World Series championship in five seasons, overcoming a five-run deficit with the help of three Yankees defensive errors and rallying on sacrifice flies from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts in the eighth inning to beat New York 7-6 in Game 5 on Saturday night.
Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning, Alex Verdugo’s RBI single chased Jack Flaherty in the second and Giancarlo Stanton’s third-inning homer against Ryan Brasier built a 5-0 Yankees lead.
But errors by Judge in center and Anthony Volpe at shortstop, combined with pitcher Gerrit Cole’s failure to cover first on Betts’ grounder, helped Los Angeles score five unearned runs in the fifth.
After Stanton’s sixth inning sacrifice fly put the Yankees back ahead 6-5, the Dodgers loaded the bases against Tommy Kahnle in the eighth before Luke Weaver’s sacrifice fly.
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 at Yankee Stadium on October 30.
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Blake Treinen’s winner escaped a two-on, one-out clock in the bottom half by retiring Stanton on a flyout and striking out Anthony Rizzo.
Walker Buehler, making his first relief appearance since his rookie season in 2018, pitched a perfect ninth for his first major league save.
When Buehler struck out Verdugo to end the game, the Dodgers took the field to celebrate between the mound and first base, capping the season on a 98-game winning streak and finishing with their best regular season record.
Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers’ record-setting $700 million player and baseball’s first 50-homer, 50-steal player, went 2 for 19 with no RBIs and had one after separating his shoulder while attempting a stolen base in Game 2.
Freddie Freeman hit a two-run single to tie the Series record of 12 RBIs, set by Bobby Richardson over seven games in 1960. With the Dodgers one out from the opener on Saturday, Freeman hit a grand slam in the last game like Kirk Gibson’s homer. of Oakland Dennis Eckersley in Game 1 of 1988 that gave Los Angeles the title.
The Dodgers won their eighth and seventh championships since leaving Brooklyn for Los Angeles – the first in a non-shortened season since 1988. They won the World Series at a neutral site against Tampa Bay in 2020 after a 60-game regular season and could not. have a parade due to the coronavirus pandemic.
