The Dodgers are champions. Los Angeles stormed again from a 5-0 deficit tonight (with some assist from the Yankees’ protection) for a 7-6 win to clinch the Collection in 5 video games. Freddie Freeman was named World Collection MVP.
It’s the second title in 5 years for the Dodgers. Whereas the pandemic restrictions restricted their celebration in 2020, they’ll get to host a parade this time round. The Dodgers have been baseball’s finest crew within the common season, main MLB with 98 wins whereas outscoring opponents by 179 runs. There have been nonetheless questions heading into October about whether or not a pitching employees battered by accidents might maintain up.
The run to a championship wasn’t with out adversity. L.A. discovered itself on the point of elimination in its Division Collection in opposition to the Padres. San Diego took a 2-1 sequence lead. The Friars had two probabilities to shut it out, however Dodger pitching blanked them in consecutive video games to advance. That was their solely actual brush with elimination. Los Angeles took a 3-1 lead within the NL Championship Collection in opposition to the Mets earlier than closing it out in six.
They bought out to a fair higher begin to the World Collection. Freeman’s two-out, walk-off grand slam off Nestor Cortes pulled them to a Recreation 1 victory. They survived a ninth-inning scare in Recreation 2 to take a 2-0 result in the Bronx. Los Angeles took Recreation 3 in a 4-2 win that wasn’t as shut because the rating urged. The stranglehold on the sequence gave them three extra clinching probabilities after Tuesday’s blowout loss.
For some time, it seemed like tonight can be one other blowout defeat. An early offensive barrage from the Yankees knocked Jack Flaherty out of the sport within the second inning. The Collection headed again to L.A. till a defensive collapse by the Yanks within the fifth inning. Errors by Aaron Choose and Anthony Volpe helped load the bases earlier than a essential two-out miscommunication between Anthony Rizzo and Gerrit Cole that prolonged the inning. Hits by Freeman and Teoscar Hernández plated 4 extra runs to tie it.
Whereas the Yankees pulled again in entrance with a 6-5 lead, the Dodgers would take management within the eighth inning. The underside half of the L.A. order loaded the bases in opposition to Tommy Kahnle. Sacrifice flies from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts put them in entrance. Blake Treinen navigated a tough backside half of the eighth. After churning by means of their high-leverage bullpen arms, Dave Roberts turned to Walker Buehler for the ninth. Buehler simply set down the underside third of the Yankee order, securing the title with consecutive punchouts of Austin Wells and Alex Verdugo.
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