Los Angeles Dodgers win World Series, defeating New York Yankees in five games

The Los Angeles Dodgers roared backmost from a 5-0 shortage precocious Wednesday to bushed the New York Yankees 7-6 and triumph baseball’s 2024 World Series successful 5 games.

The title is the eighth successful the Dodgers’ 140-year past and was clinched successful beforehand of astir 50,000 fans astatine Yankee Stadium successful New York, astir of whom hoped the Yankees could propulsion retired a triumph and instrumentality the bid backmost to Los Angeles.

The Yankees, trying to clasp disconnected elimination, jumped retired to an aboriginal pb connected the spot of location runs from sluggers Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm and Giancarlo Stanton.

But the Dodgers tied the crippled with 5 runs successful the 5th inning, aided by an mistake successful halfway tract by Judge, who dropped what appeared to beryllium an casual alert shot disconnected the bat of the Dodgers’ Tommy Edman.

After the Yankees scored successful the adjacent inning, Los Angeles went up for bully with 2 runs successful the apical of the eighth, with the go-ahead tally coming via a sacrifice alert from prima outfielder Mookie Betts.

Walker Buehler, usually a starting pitcher, entered the crippled successful alleviation to unopen down the Yankees successful the bottommost of the ninth inning and clinch the title.

Dodgers archetypal baseman Freddie Freeman was named the World Series’ Most Valuable Player aft hitting 4 location runs and driving 12 runs during the five-game series.

The Series drew precocious TV ratings not lone successful the United States but besides successful Japan due to the fact that of the Dodgers’ Shohei Otani, who began his vocation successful his autochthonal onshore and is simply a fastener to beryllium named National League Most Valuable Player aft hitting a league-topping 54 location runs this season.

The Dodgers won the archetypal 3 games of the Series earlier the Yankees claimed crippled four. No squad has ever travel backmost from a 3-0 shortage to triumph the World Series.

This was the Dodgers’ archetypal title since the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.
Fans of the Yankees, baseball’s astir palmy and renowned franchise, were hoping for an extremity to a 15-year rubric drought. This was the archetypal clip the Yankees had reached the World Series since winning the title successful 2009.