World Series News: Dodgers beat Yankees in Game 5 to claim eighth championship

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

They needed a dramatic comeback in Game 5 to make it happen after trailing 5-0 at Yankee Stadium.

Walker Buehler, who started Game 3 just two days earlier, recorded the final three outs of the game to end 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 no-out jam with the bases loaded. Sacrifice hits 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 single.

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Aaron Judge’s first home run of the World Series, a two-run blast off Dodgers starter Jack Flaherty in the first inning, provided the first blow. Jazz Chisholm followed with a home run of his own.

Leading 3-0 in the second inning, New York scored again on a double by Anthony Volpe and an RBI single by Alex Verdugo. That was the final batter for Flaherty, who pitched in the sixth inning of Game 1 last Friday at Dodger Stadium but couldn’t get out of the second inning on Wednesday.

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Anthony Banda took over and walked Judge and Juan Soto before eliminating Chisholm on a bases-loaded grounder to escape further damage.

Giancarlo Stanton’s home run against Ryan Brasier in the fifth inning gave the Yankees a 5-0 lead, with no sign of the momentum shifting against Cole.

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The righthander had not allowed a hit, walked only two and struckout three in the first four innings of the game. But Kiké Hernández punctuated the no-hit bid with a single to open the fifth inning, before errors by Judge and Volpe Tommy Edman and Will Smith to reach the base, load the bases.

Cole came back to strike out Gavin Lux and Shohei Ohtani, but Mookie Betts reached base on a defensive error between Cole and first baseman Anthony Rizzo. Rizzo fielded a cue-shot ground ball from Betts, with time to run to base for the third out without assistance. Instead, he looked up, hoping to throw the ball to Cole, who was nowhere near first base.

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

The bases remained loaded. A single by Freddie Freeman and a double by Teoscar Hernández followed. Suddenly the game was tied at 5.

Remarkably, Cole continued to pitch into the seventh inning without allowing another run. Meanwhile, the Yankees took a 6-5 lead when Juan Soto led off the sixth inning with a walk and came around to score on a sacrifice fly by Stanton.

Then the Dodgers got to work. After rallying for two runs in the top of the eighth inning, Blake Treinen returned for his second inning of work and a big task ahead of him in the bottom of the eighth.

Treinen allowed a one-out double to Judge and walked Chisholm. Manager Dave Roberts – whose bullpen was short on options – visited the mound but kept Treinen in the game. The veteran responded by striking out Stanton and Rizzo to end the inning.

Buehler was the winning pitcher in Monday’s Game 3. Thanks to his five shutout innings, Los Angeles was primed to sweep the World Series on Tuesday.

Celebrating the victory had to wait for a day, as the Yankees claimed an 11-4 win in Game 4. As a result, Buehler was on hand to record the final three outs of the season on a night when the Dodgers needed him.

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