The Dodgers won an eighth World Series successful melodramatic manner connected Wednesday nighttime aft a singular comeback against nan Yankees.
New York, trailing 3-1 successful nan series, raced into a 5-0 lead and looked to beryllium cruising to a 2nd successive victory.
But a catastrophic 5th inning saw nan Yankees springiness up 5 runs and let nan Dodgers to level nan game.
Then, aft nan Yankees edged up erstwhile more, Los Angeles scored 2 precocious runs to unafraid a 7-6 triumph - and a 4-1 bid victory. It was nan first clip immoderate squad has travel backmost from 5-0 down to triumph nan World Series.
Having avoided a expanse connected Tuesday night, Aaron Judge and Co were hoping to unit a Game 6 and return nan best-of-seven bid backmost to Los Angeles.
Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts observe during nan Dodgers' singular comeback
Gerrit Cole threw 103 pitches connected a chaotic nighttime that included 1 unspeakable inning successful nan fifth
The Yankees made nan cleanable start, pinch Judge hitting a two-run homer earlier Jazz Chisholm extended New York's lead astatine nan bottommost of nan first.
But nan crippled changed erstwhile Judge 1 of respective Yankees errors successful nan 5th inning that helped nan Dodgers conflict back.
It was a comeback befitting an electrifying series, which began pinch Freddie Freeman's historical walk-off expansive slam and included a singular conflict betwixt Mookie Betts and 2 Yankees instrumentality successful Game 4.
On nan comeback, Betts said: 'It was love, it was grit, it was conscionable a beautiful thing. I'm proud of us, I'm happy for us.'
A Yankees instrumentality sticks up for his ain pinch a homemade motion directed astatine Mookie Betts
The sun sets complete Yankee Stadium successful nan hours earlier Game 5 of nan World Series
It was different sold-out crowd successful nan Bronx to spot nan Yankees return connected nan rival Dodgers