The Dodgers win the World Series! Los Angeles secures dramatic Game 5 comeback after Yankees disaster

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The Dodgers win the World Series! Los Angeles secures dramatic Game 5 comeback after Yankees disaster


The Dodgers won an eighth World Series in dramatic fashion on Wednesday night after a remarkable comeback against the Yankees.

New York, trailing 3-1 in the series, raced into a 5-0 lead and looked to be cruising to a second successive victory.

But a catastrophic fifth inning saw the Yankees give up five runs and allow the Dodgers to level the game. 

Then, after the Yankees edged ahead once more, Los Angeles scored two late runs to secure a 7-6 win – and a 4-1 series victory. No team has ever before erased a five-run deficit to clinch the World Series.

Having avoided a sweep on Tuesday night, Aaron Judge and Co were hoping to force a Game 6 and take the best-of-seven series back to Los Angeles. 

The Dodgers win the World Series! Los Angeles secures dramatic Game 5 comeback after Yankees disaster

The Dodgers completed a dramatic comeback to beat the Yankees and win the World Series

Pitcher Walker Buehler celebrates after victory was secured at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday

Pitcher Walker Buehler celebrates after victory was secured at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday

'It was love, it was grit, it was just a beautiful thing,' Mookie Betts after victory was sealed

‘It was love, it was grit, it was just a beautiful thing,’ Mookie Betts after victory was sealed

Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts celebrate during the Dodgers' remarkable comeback

Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts celebrate during the Dodgers’ remarkable comeback

The Yankees made the perfect start, with Judge hitting a two-run homer before Jazz Chisholm extended New York’s lead at the bottom of the first.

But the game changed when Judge one of several Yankees errors in the fifth inning that helped the Dodgers fight back. 

It was a comeback befitting an electrifying series, which began with Freddie Freeman’s historic walk-off grand slam and included a remarkable clash between Mookie Betts and two Yankees fan in Game 4.

On the comeback, Betts said: ‘It was love, it was grit, it was just a beautiful thing. I’m proud of us, I’m happy for us.’

Coach Dave Roberts added: ‘I thank god, I thank my players, their families… the fingerprints on Dodger nation…this trophy belongs to everyone.’

Gerrit Cole threw 103 pitches on a wild night that included one terrible inning in the fifth

Gerrit Cole threw 103 pitches on a wild night that included one terrible inning in the fifth

A Yankees fan sticks up for his own with a homemade sign directed at Mookie Betts

A Yankees fan sticks up for his own with a homemade sign directed at Mookie Betts

The sun sets over Yankee Stadium in the hours before Game 5 of the World Series

The sun sets over Yankee Stadium in the hours before Game 5 of the World Series

It was another sold-out crowd in the Bronx to see the Yankees take on the rival Dodgers

It was another sold-out crowd in the Bronx to see the Yankees take on the rival Dodgers



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