The Dodgers are champions. Los Angeles stormed back from a 5-0 deficit tonight (with some help from the Yankees’ defense) for a 7-6 win to take it in five games. No team had ever come back from five runs down in a World Series clincher. As expected, Freddie Freeman won the Series MVP award.
It’s their second title in five seasons. While the pandemic restrictions limited their celebration in 2020, they’ll get to host a parade this time. The Dodgers were baseball’s best team in the regular season, leading MLB with 98 wins while outscoring opponents by 179 runs. There were nevertheless questions heading into October about whether a pitching staff battered by injuries could hold up.
The run to a championship wasn’t without adversity. L.A. found itself on the brink of elimination in its Division Series against the Padres. San Diego took a 2-1 series lead. The Friars had two chances to close it out, but Dodger pitching blanked them in consecutive games to advance. That was their only brush with elimination. Los Angeles took a 3-1 lead in the NL Championship Series against the Mets before closing it out in six.
They got out to an even better start to the World Series. Freeman’s two-out, walk-off grand slam off Nestor Cortes pulled them to a Game 1 victory. They survived a ninth-inning scare in Game 2 to take a 2-0 lead to the Bronx. Los Angeles took Game 3 in a 4-2 win that wasn’t as close as the score suggested. The stranglehold on the series gave them three more clinching chances after Tuesday’s blowout loss.
For a while, it looked like tonight would be another easy defeat. An early offensive barrage from the Yankees knocked Jack Flaherty out of the game in the second inning. The Series looked to be headed back to L.A. until a defensive collapse by the Yanks in the fifth inning. Errors by Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe helped load the bases before a critical two-out miscommunication between Anthony Rizzo and Gerrit Cole that extended the inning. Hits by Freeman and Teoscar Hernández plated four more runs to tie it.
While the Yankees pulled back in front with a 6-5 lead, the Dodgers would take control in the eighth inning. The bottom half of the L.A. order loaded the bases against Tommy Kahnle. Sacrifice flies from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts put them in front. Blake Treinen navigated a tricky bottom half of the eighth. After churning through their high-leverage bullpen arms, Dave Roberts turned to Walker Buehler for the ninth. Buehler easily set down the bottom third of the Yankee order, securing the title with consecutive punchouts of Austin Wells and Alex Verdugo.
Freeman homered in each of the first four games. While he didn’t extend that streak tonight, his two-run single in the fifth was pivotal. He wins his second championship, while Betts and injured reliever Joe Kelly join Royals’ reliever Will Smith as active players with three titles (h/t to Matt Eddy of Baseball America). Among the first-time champions: Shohei Ohtani, Teoscar Hernández*, Jack Flaherty, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and NLCS MVP Tommy Edman.
It’s the eighth title in franchise history, the Dodgers’ first in a full season since 1988. The organization pulls even with the Giants for fifth on the all-time leaderboard. They’re now one away from the A’s and Red Sox, who are tied for third with nine rings apiece. The Yankees remain on 27 championships for at least another season, while the Cardinals are in second with 11 titles.
* Hernández was on the 2017 Astros but was traded midseason.
Image courtesy of Imagn.
Feels like this is just the beginning, unfortunately
Could be. Can you actually imagine a healthy Dodgers team?
No because they constantly sign players who are injury prone, their most expensive player being example 1.
doesn’t seem to hurt them much overall, no pun intended
The Dodgers were unquestionably the best team in baseball. But their margin over the Padres was razor thin. Next year will be exciting again!
With a healthy rotation we sweep the Padres.
And if my aunt had wheels she’d be a bike
Darren
Yu don’t know that
Dodgers only scored three runs against Yu Darvish in thirteen and two-thirds innings
I would pick Dodgers to win again next year, but “sweep”, nah
MLB – Hate to say it, but next year if their starting rotation includes a healthy Ohtani, Glasnow, Yamamoto, Kershaw etc then that margin will be a whole lot thicker.
@Fever, don’t forget Roki Sasaki and other Japanese talent that will unquestionably join the Dodgers if they offer a reasonable contract. Roki is a competitor so maybe he’ll choose a different team but I still feel Sasaki will choose to play with Ohtani and Yamamoto.
Rays – I don’t think he’s getting posted for 2 more years.
@Fever. It really depends on his team tbh. He could push them to post him or they could just ignore him. I think they will post him
They can only offer 1 type of contract if he’s posted this offseason, a minimum contract but he can receive a large signing bonus.
The Padres have no chance. None. They can’t afford the checks they’ve been writing.
Eh, It’s REALLY hard to do it again. It usually seems like the team that just won has a great chance to do it again because… they just did it. But it ain’t easy.
Blow-tani… Freeman was great
Re-sign Walker, Teoscar, sign Sugano and Sasaki please
As a dodger fan I hope Walker and Teoscar use this World Series to go get some money from other teams. I love both players but they’d be depth or blocking prospects at this point.
Walker had a nice little bounce back postseason but he’s not getting that much money. He will be back with the Dodgers on 1 or 2 guaranteed years.
Beuhler isn’t coming back. You guys are just drunk on a post season high. You were probably the same fans complaining about him when he was giving up 5 runs every game
Personally I always thought he was overrated. It wouldn’t bother me at all if he doesn’t return. I just don’t think he’s going to have a lot of big time offers out there.
If the Dodgers want him back, he will be back.
Who better are they blocking? StrikeOutman? Often injured pitchers?
Strikeoutman I thought that’s teoscars job, and Buehler isn’t the pinnacle of pithing health himself. They’ll likely get more money and more opportunity elsewhere but we’ll see how the offseason goes. I doubt Friedman brings either back though
And sign Kike Hernandez.
I thought kike had team option for 2025, turns out it was Miguel Rojas who had team option for 5M. Take it Friedman, and Kike too. Need a good back up with great defense and big heart.
Saw how the Yankee defense in this series, and it was ugly. Especially Torres
The greatest franchise in MLB history!!!!!!!
We run the league!!!!!!!!
Technically, our Dodgers are like 3rd best. Yankees (by far) have the lead in championship rings, Athletics second. Cards /Dodgers 3rd or 4th, but I’m posting without a quick search.
But this year, most definitely!
Much pride in being a fan of being a well run team…the anguish of NewsCorp and shady parking lot owner is lessened.
Didn’t most of those Yankees world series happen when there was only like 10 teams in the league? lol
16 teams in both leagues 8/8- total.
Yo – Red Sox have the 3rd most championships!
Cardinals are 2nd.
Dodgers are tied for 5th with the Giants.
Giants have more wins than the Dodgers. Good job this year by not choking or flubbing the postseason.
Nope. No choking. Played all 162 games as well! Always appreciate the participation in 2024, Giants fan! Maybe the Giants will finish .500 next season. The Dodgers basically took every haters talking points and shoved them straight down your throat. Gotta come up with some new material, haters.
No one can call this one Mickey Mouse, LA beat NY like they owed them money and won the most regular season games.
I wouldn’t say that. The Yankees did more to win the series for LA than the Dodgers did.
It is disappointing to see the arrogance of so many Dodger “fans” now coming out on social media to proclaim their kingship in perhaps the most arrogant way possible. But, it’s going to stay at the forefront of many people’s minds if they lose next year.
Surprised to hear you say this clipper. I get the feeling but you know as well as anyone that you play the entire team. In championship games it’s hard to overcome mistakes because good teams are going to make you pay.
Yeah, I was responding to the specific comment above, but I was referring to the mistakes the Yankees made.
Make no mistake, my opinion is that the Dodgers played excellent ball and were fundamentally sound. Freeman was an absolute BEAST! Edman was excellent. Overall though, it’s all the little things that LA did right that kept them coming back.
LAD was the better team and deserved the win. Yankees played poorly and lost two games they could’ve/should’ve won.
I congratulate you and the many other good LAD fans, BlueSkies. Enjoy this for all its worth, man. As we well know, it could happen again next year, or in our case 16 years and counting…….
Nonsense, Clipper. You are usually the level headed Yankee fan.
Thanks, and this is true. It happens when it happens — and you never know when the stars will align again.
Then again, I did have tickets to Game 6… 🙂
Congrats BlueSkies and all LA Dodgers fans. And I promise never to make fun of the 2020 championship ever again. You guys earned the real enchilada this time. Respect!! and enjoy your parade!!
Nah dodgers embarrassed the yanks. LA beat them like they stole something. It wasn’t even close, Yankees are lucky they didn’t get swept but thanks for the laugh Clipper
STFU, 4-1 is a blow out and you’re an idiot.
Bought time all those billions finally did something.
“All those billions”…Well, if you make it(48,000+ daily fans)you might as well spend it. What would you have them do with all their revenues?..Bank them and draw interest?
You’d think spending close to 6 billion dollars on player payroll since the 2000s would have culminated in more 1 162 game championship the last 24 years. Im honestly shocked it didn’t.
Congrats to dodger fans. Hope they enjoy it. I was just shocked to hear how much money the dodger franchise has spent the last 24 years and little to show for it until today.
You’d only actually think that if you were a sports fan newbie. Money helps significantly, but your still have to win the games and manage the team effectively to let.
Well if you’re paying high salaries you’re paying for better or the best players.
I don’t think dodgers were giving nobodies all these years 9 figure contracts.
Paying for the best means you should get the best results. Otherwise you’re just squandering money.
You should be more shocked how negatively impacted by injuries they were this season and still had the depth to have best record in baseball and win the WS. Only 1 SP from beginning of season roster in WS roster.
Everyone has injuries. You signed Ohtani knowing he couldn’t pitch this year. Buehler is coming off TJ x2. Yamamoto has to adapt to 5 man rotation. Glasnow has NEVER had a healthy season. Kershaw hasn’t been healthy in years.
Look at the stats buddy. Not even close between the Dodgers and second most injured team. Not even close.
blogs.fangraphs.com/river-ryan-jazz-chisholm-and-b…
@Ryan, it seems you have a quote for where an apostrophe should be…the quote marks should be around “intellectual”….as in not really intellectual.
You realize that the majority of the teams revenue comes from their tv deal, right? Dodger dogs don’t pay Ohtani, etc
Ok
I’m not talking about revenue
I’m talking about spending 6 billion dollars since the 2000s on payroll.
How you pay for payroll is irrelevant. They dished out roughly 6 billion since the 2000s.
I honestly had no idea they spent that much on payroll chasing rings all those years. Like if I had to put a number on it I’d had guessed 1 or 2 maybe 3. 6 blew my mind
Fortunately, LAD made a great deal with them Time Warner. But it does seem like there will be some changes in rational sports networks failing.
PHX is 5th largest city in US, but apparently a weak TV market (?).
It might be interesting to see an article here comparing TV contracts and corresponding Cable/TV markets.
Then* Time Warner, now Spectrum
I’m just happy it’s over. I think I watched like 3 innings of the WS total. And those were boring. Let the countdown to FA start-NOW!. Ah OK in 5 days.
I’m guessing you didn’t do a whole lot of thinking if you said 1 or 2 billion….
Interesting take. Boring? Were those three innings your first?
Mike
Watch game one the bottom of the 9th. If you find that boring, watch it again.
Or switch to the Golf Channel.
I don’t understand how anybody who calls themselves a baseball fan would intentionally not watch the World Series. I mean I understand if you have to work swing-shift or otherwise occupied with adult responsibilities, but if you have the evenings free and love baseball…why wouldn’t you watch??
Sometimes you forget just how small 1 billion dollars actually is sometimes. Sounds like a really big number but it’s not.
Esp when teams like the dodgers threw away money like it was nothing for 24 years with little to show for it and our own government sends US tax dollars to places like Ukraine and gives US taxes dollars to undocumented immigrants instead of using it to improve the lives of citizens by funding schools healthcare etc.
What about the billions going to Israel as well?
Sure. Include them too. And the Paris accord agreement.
Should rescind US tax dollars and focus on fixing our country before we try to help others. God knows we have problems. Enough footing the bill for things esp if other countries aren’t contributing what they’re able to.
“did something”
Because they hadn’t made the playoffs for over a decade and just won a world series a few years ago…
4 world series wins in 8 seasons!
Counting that hard for you? It’s 2 and you’re not on the dodgers so you didn’t win anything slow your roll
2017
2018
2020
2024
DYNASTY!!!!!!!
If we are handing out participation trophies, just go ahead and say they have won the last 25 World Series.
How high are you? The Dodgers lost in 2017 and 2018.
So nice you can mute jackasses like this
Meh he is just crying about trash cans or something stupid. Just pat his head and move on.
DD – You lost a lot of credibility with that one post.
2017 the Red Sox and Yankees both were eliminated by the cheating Astros, each team could have beaten the Dodgers.
2018 the Sox were far better than every other team. 108 regular season wins and cruised through the postseason.
1*
Yay. Onto the off-season…
An all time choke job in game 5 by the Yankees. Absolutely embarrassing
They weren’t really that intimidating. Apart from Cole, Soto, santon and judge, Yankees seemed lacking.
Cole is not intimidating. Remember when he walked Devers? No one is afraid of him.
My list would be have been Soto, Stanton and Cole, not so much Judge, who had a brilliant regular season.
How could Cole and Rizzo let Mookie leg that out? Both should’ve been at first before him
Based – Rizzo was waiting for a Yankee fan to tackle Mookie on the way to first base.
“Defending first base” the fan would later say.
Rizzo was completely useless throughout the whole postseason…is he totally washed or just totally indifferent?? He just seemed way checked-out to me. His AB’s were atrocious.
@Ignorant He has two broken fingers…
LETS GO DODGERS!!!!!!!
The Dodgers played a cleaner, more fundamental brand of baseball. Congratulations to the World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers!!!
Congrats Dodgers fans!
Yankees gifted the Dodgers the win today in the fifth inning with all that sloppy defense. It was there all year, but it was exposed in the playoffs. This is on the poor coaching from the Yankees, but props to the Dodgers for taking advantage of all freebies. Good World Series this year.
“All that sloppy defense”..It’s ironic, but some of the Yankee’s best defenders(Volpe, Judge, Wells)committed gaffes to aid the Dodgers’ cause in tonight’s game.
Still can’t believe Volpe won a gold glove.
Get ready for the superteam era of baseball everyone. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This is the state of baseball. First year after buying Ohtani and Yamamoto and they won everything.
Blame your billionaire owner who needs to try harder. I’m thankful my team actually tries to win.
nah. Too many playoff teams now.
I wouldn’t worry about it.
@kewldude, you think I don’t blame Stu?? Of course I do!
Even though Ohtani didn’t do anything in the world series lol.
@Darren what about Yamamoto? Betts? Freeman? If anything it shows that Superteams have enough depth to survive injuries. No Glasgow and Ohtani was mediocre, yet they have Freeman and Betts who can always win games. Now imagine when the superteam is healthy. And they will certainly add Roki Sasaki next year. As far as I’m concerned the Dodgers will continue to make it to the NLDS. Money these days takes teams farther than 15-20 years ago. Especially with so many unique talents.
Yamamoto was an unproven rookie.
We traded for Mookie.
Just about every team in the league could have afforded Freeman’s contract.
Unproven rookie with hard stats in the NPB. MLB scouting is getting better at evaluating Japanese players. Everyone expected him to perform well and he did.
Every team can’t afford to extend Mookie.
Afford Freeman?? Are you ok? Clearly not because the Rays offered him a deal and he rejected it for more money with the Dodgers.
Just weak arguments all around.
@raysinthebay Recent history doesn’t support your argument. Many small market teams have had success
@kev success means nothing when they can’t win the World Series. I don’t consider Houston/Texas small markets. Padres aren’t small. Guardians, Rays, Pirates, A’s are the true small markets. When was the last time any of them won the World Series? How many times did they even make it to the World Series? Only Royals fit that bill in 2015. Mayyybe Nationals in 2019? Dbacks made it but failed last year.
Dodgers lose in playoffs “lol losers”
Dodgers win world series “no fair, Dodgers win all the time.”
^^this^^
@Vegas, everyone knew they were buying the best talent and scouting the best personnel from other teams and paying them more long before this year. That’s why it was funny. You forget Friedman began with the Rays. Then the Dodgers just offered him more money and he was gone, poof!
They never went on a spending spree like last off-season in their recent history so of course we are gonna complain. It is what it is but we have the right to complain on deaf ears.
Okay if over the next 10 years we see a Dodgers/Yankees World Series in 5 out of those 10 years, maybe MLB needs to look into it. We can have a Manfred Blue Ribbon study. Two year investigation.
Congrats to the Dodgers. Hated both teams but LA a little less. Now hopefully Soto signs with the Mets and Hernandez leaves LA.
They have two Hernandez in the lineup.
pain is all i feel, hopefully we have aaron boone’s head on a pike in washington square park soon
Congratulations Dodgers!
Imagine celebrating a title after spending 1.2 billion on 4 players. Couldn’t be me
Drill yer mama
100% couldn’t be you, we all agree.
“Couldn’t be me”
The fact that you didn’t win probably has something to do with that.
Win some lose some
Shohei had them winning in 6 games
Glad this season finally over lol. Got to change my name now
Champ, no you don’t. Flags fly forever!
Congratulations Dodgers! I assume Freeman is the MVP.
And now it’s been announced that Freeman is the MVP. It’s very well deserved.
No HR tonight, slacker. Good for him. He had a tough year.
first since 1988
First “real” championship
Dodgers actually have eight. But you keep on being you.
Cope and seethe…. HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Must be a tough day for you that you need to retire this line.
Their whole baseball troll identity just disappeared.
Theeeeeeeeeeeee Yankees Lose!!!!!!!!!!!!!
World series champs!!! Yankees suck Mets suck and padres suck!
Congratulations to Freddie and supporting cast!
All the HATERS can now OFFICIALLY shut your MOUTHS!!!! BLEED BLUE!!!
teehee at the Yanks. Good for Freeman. Now onto the off season cause this season has been just as forgettable as 2020.
Trade
Fogettable, nah! People will remember Freddie’s game one grand slam for many decades to come.
You can never give a good team six outs in an inning. Good job by the Dodgers even after the exposure of their bullpen. Congratulations to the Dodgers on their eighth world series title.
Yea, just an additional out is usually a rally talking point, but a free inning within an inning?
That’s laughable.
The Dodgers are such an inspiration. They proved that if you spend enough you can win and that’s a great lesson for all Americans young and old.
#capitalismrules
Excuses. The yanks showed money can be spent poorly. Many teams have shown us that before.
Yep perhaps if the Yankees had spent more they could have beat the Dodgers. Hopefully they learn from their mistakes and come back better next year. A 600 million dollar payroll would show the rest of the league they mean business.
Hey everyone, black pink is back. Here we go.
@blackpink; and the Cardinals & most of the MLB teams multi billionaire owners showed that if you don’t spend your money & keep hoarding it, you lose! You get richer but, you lose!
I’m just happy to see the waaahnkees choke harder than a $2 wwhhhhhrrre
you’re welcome for seeing it in the World Series.
Hi @neoncorp, you absolute fraud
Best team won. Congratulations to the Los Angeles Dodgers!
The Dodgers play by the rules. So why would they not try and win anyway possible? You don’t like it, blame Manfred. Blame MLB. Blame your cheap owner. Suck it up, cry babies. The Dodgers are an empire.
Dude – I see what you did there …. they are the new Evil Empire, good one!
The quest for 162-0 next season begins now!
No days off!!!!!!
Honestly, the playoffs reward teams for taking it easy down the stretch. Better to rest your pitching more and win 98.
OK great…now let’s get back to baseball teams that matter. On with the off season.
The jealousy
Even Dave Robert’s couldn’t screw it up
That’s unfair. Robert’s was THE manager this entire postseason. He was outmanaged by exactly no one.
He’s just lucky none of those games went deep into extra innings with how much he worked the bullpen.
Unfair? It’s totally delusional. He just won a championship with two starting pitchers. Credit to the front office too. They made the right moves.
Yamamoto, Buehler, Flaherty = 3
Nobody with their head attached would have counted Buehler as a third starter at the beginning of the postseason. Almost anybody would have been ahead of him, until nobody was.
Agree on Roberts. He delivered a master’s class this post season.
Dave Roberts likely has made the Hall of Fame with this championship. He can be a .500 manager the rest of his career and he’ll get in based on four pennants and two World Series championships. Bochy, Francona, and Dusty will get in, too.
Dusty Baker is one of the most overrated managers of all time.
If you strictly go by the numbers. His players love him though
Congrats to the Dodgers on their first non-Covid World Series in a bit. Now you get to celebrate properly.
As for the Yanks. Wow. Don’t know where to go from here. I know everyone says don’t be disappointed with a WS season but they played so poorly games 2, 3 and 5 I don’t know how you feel comfortable going forward. That might have been the worst inning of playoff baseball I’ve ever seen.
This one def stings. A lot to talk about this offseason.
Villanovaman
Don’t forget about Fat Joe
Condolences to the Yankees and all of baseball for not being good enough to win in an easy Covid and now non-Covid WS.
Dodger fan here,
Pay Buehler whatever he wants (maybe). He is clutch as they can get. Kudos to NYY they just really had the worst defensive game in a long time in World Series history. They’ll be back I’m sure. Dave roberts should get his flowers. I’ve been critical of him but he EARNED my respect this October. Freddie/Teo/Edman/etc everyone contributed for this run.
Special shout out to Friedman for having arguably having the best trade deadline acquisitions package wise. Tremendous work by him.
Let’s go run it back next year!
Take that, Austin Capobianco!
That was funny
Brave – His linkedin is down to just 7 connections. LOL!!
Heck of an organization. From the front office to the field and the farm. And that bank account doesn’t hurt, either.
Enjoy this one, Dodgers fans.
Seems like they could have just gone to the local trophy store and bought one for a lot less than a billion dollars. But whatever works for you.
Seems like you could have whined somewhere else on the internet, but whatever works for you
You are so clever. How did you ever slip past the Hollywood bigwigs. With your wit, you could have been writing movies and TV your entire instead of slumming with me and the rest of the troglodytes. You are just so clever.
I have a script for Hollywood:
Hiflew over the cuckoo’s nest.
I wonder if Buehler earned a qualifying offer this week. I wouldn’t have considered bringing him back until tonight.
I thought he was good for one before tonight but he probably locked it up tonight. Whether it keeps him in LA is another question. They’ll have all sorts of options.
Buehler put his arm health on the line for the team tonight. Like with Kershaw, management might not QO him as a courtesy.
I think he needs a 1 year contract to rebuild his value. A QO seems fair for all involved, then he can’t get one next year.
Nah on putting anything at risk, except not winning. He made about as many pitches as he might in a bullpen session between starts. I was just amazed by his demeanor. It looked like just another day at the office for him. I was also impressed by the fact that his appearance was a complete improvisation, totally not by the book. So maybe there’s hope for baseball after all.
@BlueSkies – I’m blown away by how calm he was too. Absolute ice in his veins!
Soto already on 7 train
They can put all the ridiculous criticism and doubt about 2020 behind them. Undeniable. Congratulations Dodgers. Well deserved
Congratulations to the LA Dodger fans on a great team win for the championship. Dodgers played fundamentally sound baseball and the Yankees didn’t. LA was clearly the better team and deserved this title.
This sucked to watched for us because we should be going to game 6, but the Yanks gave you the game on a platter.
Poor fundamentals is a direct reflection of the manager/coaches. Boone did a decent job (for once) early in the postseason, but botched the WS. Yankees poor fundamentals has been the common theme with a Boone-led team, not the exception. Please don’t bring Boone back.
Respect to you Yankee Clipper. You’re a good one. Cheers.
Regards to you and yours. Lots of good Dodger folks on here, and you all are cool to interact with. It’s a shame that some “fans” give the LA fanbase a bad name. We have those in NY too, obviously. Kind of like the dummy that grabbed Mookie for the baseball…
I don’t think Boone is going anywhere, though I can’t understand how you can employ a coaching staff that allows such bad fundamental baseball on the field.
Well said, Clipper!
It reminds me of Kevin Cash. The Rays’ well-respected defense took a tumble the last few years. Some of it is on the players but the players were making boneheaded mistakes in the field and on the bases. I think it’s a common theme I. The AL East.
You’re a class act YC. Best of luck to you and your Yankees moving forward. Soto seems like a very good fit with Yankees. Feels like a near certainty that he returns to the Bronx. I also want to say how much I respect and appreciated Cole’s performance tonight. He was stellar and deserved better. So impressive!
Congratulations to Dodgers fans, from a Dbacks fan who was totally wrong about this year’s team. I respect the Dodgers for winning this WS when they had such a rash of injuries to their pitching staff that I didn’t think they could possibly pitch well enough to get to the WS, let alone win it.
So Ohtani signed a 10 year deal only to win a World Series in year one? wtf
Smart play. He’s cementing his legacy (despite his poor postseason performance) by winning titles…
Objectively, LA could have a dynasty not seen since the 90s Yanks.
Great front office; committed players; great player development. I did see firsthand why some wanted Dave Roberts to leave.
Dave Roberts is a cog in the front office game plan machine. Win or lose, credit or blame where it is due — to the entire organization. I’d like to think they collectively have figured out some things this year that have eluded them in previous postseasons. If so you could be right about the potential for an LA dynasty.
Roberts managed exceptionally this postseason.
With both their postseason successes and failures, Roberts often gets pitching change orders from the FO. What Roberts does well is keeping the players rooting for their teammates.
Treinen would have been ‘pulled’ automatically for the early on in his career version of Dave Roberts under the direction of front office analytics….eg Rich Hill. being pulled when he was dealing in the post season.
Now Roberts has more power and autonomy to manage as he sees it, and the dictatorial analytics has disappeared to some degree.
Fred
Interesting theory, I am not saying you are wrong, but I have not heard or seen anything to support it.
Congratulations Dodgers fans. I wish my Yankees had put up a better fight, but the clearly better team won. Enjoy the victory.
You can’t give extra outs in a regular season game, let alone a World Series, diabolical errors from the Yankees. Game 1 and Game 5 handed to the Dodgers gift wrapped.
Well done Dodgers, maybe they’ll win 2025 as well, as it’s going to be hard to compete with that roster and the players that will be added.
Starting the season on the Chisox and ending it with a Worlds Series Ring! Michael Kopech IS Cinderella! Garrett Crochet is a clown.
Salad
Are you needling Crochet?
I’m in stitches.
Let’s go!
Dodgers World Series CHAMPS babyyyy
Bring on the parade !!!
Congrats Dodgers, welcome to the club of teams who fans of many other franchises will in a few years scoff and dismiss as only have bought a WS (Just remind them about the 300 million dollar Mets… money alone doesn’t cut it).
Gotta imagine Cole is going to be kicking himself all offseason. The first two errors of that inning can be just lumped into the category of bad luck or bad defense. His mental error of not covering first base. Wow.
That was a bad Yankee team, flawed in every aspect. Played in a weak AL and slugged their way past inferior teams. Finally played a decent team and got smoked. Plain and simple.
A terrible terrible game last night. I see it differently. All games were close and a timely hit at the right time. The Yankees could have swept them. The Yankees definitely need a roster over haul and it starts with a new GM and manager. Hopefully, at the very least, the manager.