NEW YORK (WABC) — The Los Angeles Dodgers won their second World Series championship in five seasons, overcoming a five-run deficit with the help of three defensive errors by the Yankees and rallying with sacrifice flies by Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts in the eighth inning to win to New York 7-6. in Game 5 on Wednesday night.

Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning, Alex Verdugo’s RBI single chased Jack Flaherty in the second and Giancarlo Stanton’s third-inning home run off Ryan Brasier built a 5-0 lead for the Yankees.

But errors by Judge in center and Anthony Volpe at shortstop, combined with pitcher Gerrit Cole’s failure to cover first on Betts’ groundout, helped Los Angeles score five unearned runs in the fifth.

After Stanton’s sixth-inning sacrifice fly put the Yankees back ahead 6-5, the Dodgers loaded the bases against underdog Tommy Kahnle in the eighth before Luke Weaver’s sacrifice fly.

Winner Blake Treinen escaped a two-on-one, one-out jam in the bottom half by retiring Stanton on a fly ball and striking out Anthony Rizzo.

Walker Buehler, in his first relief appearance since his rookie season in 2018, pitched a perfect ninth for his first major league save.

When Buehler struck out Verdugo to end the game, the Dodgers took the field to celebrate between the mound and first base, capping a season in which they won 98 games and finished with the best regular-season record.

Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers’ record $700 million signing and the first baseball player with 50 home runs and 50 steals, went 2 for 19 with no RBIs and singled after separating his shoulder during a swing base stealing in Game 2.

Freddie Freeman hit a two-run single to tie the Series record of 12 RBIs, set by Bobby Richardson in seven games in 1960. With the Dodgers one out away from losing Friday’s opener, Freeman hit a grand slam that ended the game reminiscent of Kirk Gibson’s home run. against Oakland’s Dennis Eckersley in Game 1 of 1988 that propelled Los Angeles to the title.

The Dodgers won their eighth championship and seventh since leaving Brooklyn for Los Angeles, their first in a non-shortened season since 1988. They won a neutral-site World Series against Tampa Bay in 2020 after a 60-game regular season and failed to win. . have a parade due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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