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NEW YORK – The Los Angeles Dodgers claimed their eighth World Series title in franchise history Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium and, like their 98-win season and their 11 wins in 16 postseason games, it came in a fashion both wholly predictable and thoroughly stunning.
In a five-run hole in Game 5 and facing New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, the Dodgers staged a startling fifth-inning rally to tie the score, pushed across two more runs to take the lead for good in the eighth and then closed their eyes and hoped for the best from a bullpen stretched to its limit.
The result? A 7-6 Game 5 victory, a 4-1 conquest of the Yankees and the club’s first World Series title since 2020 and first in a full season since 1988.
That title was launched by a ninth-inning, Game 1 home run from Kirk Gibson that turned a win into a loss. This championship, too, had a Game 1 walk-off hero in Freddie Freeman, whose 10th-inning grand slam launched what looked to be a dominance of the Yankees as L.A. won the first three games.
But the Yankees struck back in Game 3 and seized a 5-0 lead in Game 4 before a pair of rallies – the first keyed by three Yankee misplays – did them in.
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