World Series News: Dodgers defeat Yankees in Game 5 to win eighth championship

The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees 7-6 on Wednesday to win their eighth championship in franchise history.

To succeed, they needed a dramatic comeback in Game 5, overcoming a 5-0 deficit at Yankee Stadium.

Walker Buehler, who started the second game, recorded the final three outs of the game to close out the game and the season.

A pair of sacrifice flies in the eighth inning gave the Dodgers the lead for good. After the Dodgers loaded the bases against Tommy Kahnle, Luke Weaver inherited a bases-loaded no-out game. Sacrifice flies by Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts gave the Dodgers their sixth and seventh runs, respectively.

The Dodgers’ eighth championship tied the Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants for fifth all-time, behind the Yankees (27), St. Louis Cardinals (11) and Athletics (9).

The Yankees scored the first five runs of the game before starting pitcher Gerrit Cole allowed a hit.

Aaron Judge’s first home run in the World Series, two runs off Dodgers starter Jack Flaherty in the first inning, struck first. Jazz Chisholm hit a home run of his own.

New York led 3-0 in the second inning and scored again on a double by Anthony Volpe and an RBI single by Alex Verdugo. It was the final batter for Flaherty, who started the sixth inning of Game 1 last Friday at Dodger Stadium but failed to get out of the second inning on Wednesday.

Anthony Banda took over and walked Judge and Juan Soto before retiring Chisholm’s Jazz on a bases-loaded pitch to avoid further damage.

Giancarlo Stanton’s home run against Ryan Brasier in the fifth inning gave the Yankees a 5-0 lead, and there was no indication that the momentum would change against Cole.

The right-hander didn’t allow a hit, walked just two and struck out three times in the first four innings of the game. However, Kiké Hernández broke the no-hitter bid with a single to start the fifth inning before errors by Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe allowed Tommy Edman and Will Smith to reach the base by loading the bases.

Cole came back to strike out Gavin Lux and Shohei Ohtani, but Mookie Betts reached on an errant defensive foul between Cole and first baseman Anthony Rizzo. Rizzo caught a ground ball by Betts with time to reach base for an unassisted third out. Instead, he looked up, hoping to throw the ball to Cole, who wasn’t even close to first base.

Betts was safe, Hernández scored from third, and the Dodgers had their first run.

Then came a single by Freddie Freeman and a double by Teoscar Hernández, and suddenly it was tied at five.

Interestingly, Cole continued to pitch into the seventh inning, not allowing another run. Meanwhile, the Yankees took a 6-5 lead when Juan Soto led off in the sixth inning with a walk and scored on Stanton’s sacrifice fly.

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