LA Dodgers’ stunning comeback beats NY Yankees, seals World Series 2024

The LA Dodgers bounced backmost from 5-0 down successful Game 5 to implicit bid triumph implicit the NY Yankees successful New York, with Dodgers’ prima Freddie Freeman named the MVP.

The Los Angeles Dodgers produced a stunning fightback to decision the New York Yankees and clinch the World Series with a melodramatic come-from-behind 7-6 triumph astatine the Yankee Stadium.

On a nighttime of spellbinding drama, the Dodgers sealed their 2nd Major League Baseball title crown successful 5 seasons and eighth wide aft recovering from 5-0 down to implicit a 4-1 bid triumph connected Wednesday.

The Yankees, who had kept the bid live with an 11-4 rout successful crippled 4 connected Tuesday, had looked poised to instrumentality the bid backmost to Los Angeles for crippled six aft location runs from Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm and Giancarlo Stanton.

Yankees starter Gerrit Cole meantime produced a masterful show from the mound to support the Dodgers’ potent violative lineup scoreless done 4 innings.

But a catastrophic 5th inning by the Yankees, which included a litany of antiaircraft errors, saw the Dodgers heap connected 5 unearned runs to necktie the people astatine 5-5.

Although the Yankees regained the pb done a Stanton sacrifice-fly successful the sixth inning, the Dodgers deed backmost successful the eighth with sac-flies of their ain from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts to assertion what turned retired to beryllium a winning 7-6 lead.

The Dodgers past brought backmost crippled 3 starter Walker Buehler to container the last 3 outs successful the ninth to clinch victory.

Shohei Ohtani celebrates with the trophy [Elsa/Getty Images via AFP]

‘It was love, it was grit’

“Obviously [we’re] resilient, but there’s truthful overmuch emotion successful this clubhouse, attraction – that attraction won this crippled today,” said Dodgers prima Betts. “That’s what it was. It was love, it was grit. It was conscionable a beauteous happening and I’m conscionable arrogant of america and I’m blessed for us.”

Buehler meantime admitted helium had not been expecting to play a portion successful the game.

“I privation I was successful a small amended signifier truthful my bosom could person handled it better,” the Dodgers pitcher said.

Dodgers prima Freddie Freeman, who blasted 4 consecutive location runs successful the opening 4 games of the series, was named Series Most Valuable Player.

“I deliberation we were each saying the archetypal 3 innings – ‘let’s conscionable get one, conscionable spot away, we tin bash this,'” said Freeman, who drove successful 2 runs successful the 5th inning rally with a single.

“There’s a mates of mistakes that happened, you’ve got to capitalise.”

Los Angeles Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman celebrates with the MVP trophy aft their triumph [Ashley Landis/AP]

Ohtani’s Japanese hometown savours win

The showdown betwixt 2 marquee franchises had been a boon for MLB, with Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani driving grounds TV ratings successful his autochthonal Japan.

Fans gathered for nationalist screenings and celebrated wildly erstwhile the Japanese star’s squad sealed the win.

Oshu, a sleepy metropolis of 110,000 successful bluish Japan known for its apples and beef, waited patiently for its favourite lad to assistance the trophy.

“He’s similar idiosyncratic who lives supra the clouds, truthful it’s a immense root of pridefulness that helium comes from Oshu,” 44-year-old Norihisa Sato told the AFP quality bureau astatine a nationalist viewing lawsuit astatine metropolis hallway earlier successful the series.

Ohtani is 1 of baseball’s biggest stars, joining the Dodgers astatine the extremity of past twelvemonth connected the astir lucrative declaration successful US sports history.

The 30-year-old has enjoyed a record-breaking year, becoming the archetypal subordinate to deed 50 location runs and bargain 50 bases successful 1 season, an accomplishment antecedently thought impossible.

He is an icon successful Japan, wherever shot is simply a nationalist obsession. His performances person been header quality since helium moved to MLB successful 2018 but this twelvemonth is the archetypal clip helium has appeared successful the World Series.

Ohtani said helium was “honoured” to person sealed his archetypal World Series rubric .

Although Ohtani had a comparatively quiescent World Series – failing to get a location tally and suffering a enarthrosis wounded successful crippled 2 – it did small to instrumentality the radiance of his maiden championship.

“I’m honoured to beryllium capable to beryllium portion of a play wherever we played the longest, and to beryllium capable to get to cognize this team,” said Ohtani pursuing the celebrations.

A Shohei Ohtani impersonator (L) poses with a bat astatine a barroom successful the Shibuya territory of Tokyo connected October 31, 2024, during a unrecorded broadcast of Game 5 of the World Series [Richard A Brooks/AFP]