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

Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit back-to-back homers in the first inning, Alex Verdugo’s RBI single chased out Jack Flaherty in the second, and Giancarlo Stanton’s third-inning homer off Ryan Brasier gave the Washingtons a 5-0 lead. Yankees.

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

After Stanton’s sacrifice fly in the sixth inning gave the Yankees a 6-5 lead, the Dodgers loaded the bases against loser Tommy Kahnle in the eighth before the sacrifice fly off Luke Weaver.

Winner Blake Treinen escaped a two-on-one game in the bottom half by retiring Stanton on a flyout and striking out Anthony Rizzo.

Walker Buehler, making 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 flocked to the field to celebrate between the mound and first base, capping a season in which they won 98 games and finished with the team’s best record. the regular season.

Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers’ record $700 million signing and the first baseball player to hit 50 home runs and 50 steals, went 2 for 19 with no RBIs and singled after separating from the shoulder during a base stealing attempt 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 Game 1, Freeman scored a grand slam at the end of the match reminiscent of Kirk Gibson’s home run. against Oakland’s Dennis Eckersley in the 1988 opener that clinched the title for Los Angeles.

The Dodgers won their eighth championship and seventh since moving from Brooklyn to 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. matches and were unable to hold a parade because of the coronavirus pandemic.