‘Everybody can talk s***... they can’t say a lot now’: Epic mic drop moment as wild comeback seals World Series for Dodgers

The Los Angeles Dodgers punished a string of defensive blunders from the New York Yankees to win the World Series with a stunning come-from-behind 7-6 victory.

The Los Angeles Dodgers produced a stunning fightback to defeat the New York Yankees and clinch the World Series with a dramatic come-from-behind 7-6 victory.

On a night of spellbinding drama at Yankee Stadium, the Dodgers sealed their second Major League Baseball championship crown in five seasons and eighth overall after recovering from 5-0 down to complete a 4-1 series victory.

The Yankees, who had kept the series alive with an 11-4 rout in game four on Tuesday, had looked poised to take the series back to Los Angeles for game six after home runs from Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm and Giancarlo Stanton.

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The winning moment. Luke Hales/Getty Images/AFP

Yankees starter Gerrit Cole meanwhile produced a masterful performance from the mound to keep the Dodgers’ potent offensive line-up scoreless through four innings.

But a catastrophic fifth inning by the Yankees, which included a litany of defensive errors, saw the Dodgers pile on five unearned runs to tie the score at 5-5.

Although the Yankees regained the lead through a Stanton sacrifice-fly in the sixth inning, the Dodgers hit back in the eighth with sac-flys of their own from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts to claim what turned out to be a winning 7-6 lead.

The Dodgers then brought back game three starter Walker Buehler to bag the final three outs in the ninth to clinch victory.

“Obviously (we’re) resilient, but there’s so much love in this clubhouse, care -- that care won this game today,” said Dodgers star Betts.

“That’s what it was. It was love, it was grit. It was just a beautiful thing and I’m just proud of us and I’m happy for us.”

Buehler meanwhile admitted he had not been expecting to play a part in the game.

“I wish I was in a little better shape so my heart could have handled it better,” the Dodgers pitcher said.

The Los Angeles won 7-6 in game 5. Luke Hales/Getty Images/AFP

It was the Dodgers’ first World Series championship since 2020 and given all the criticism and suggestions that win was somehow less legitimate because it came in a pandemic-shortened season, this one was that much sweeter.

“For our organisation, we deserved this. We’ve been playing really good baseball for a lot of years,” Buehler told Fox.

“Everybody can talk s*** about 2020. But they can’t say a whole lot about it now.”

Dodgers star Freddie Freeman, who blasted four consecutive home runs in the opening four games of the series, was named Series Most Valuable Player.

“I think we were all saying the first three innings - ‘let’s just get one, just chip away, we can do this,’” said Freeman, who drove in two runs in the fifth inning rally with a single.

“There’s a couple of mistakes that happened, you’ve got to capitalize.”

The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate with the trophy. (Photo by Luke Hales/Getty Images)

The Dodgers had gone into Thursday’s game quietly confident, with victorious game one starter Jack Flaherty back on the mound.

But Flaherty’s eve-of-Halloween outing turned into a horror show as the revived Yankees bats cut loose to leave the Dodgers reeling.

Judge crushed a two-run homer in the first inning and then Chisholm followed it with a solo shot to put the Yankees 3-0 ahead, before Alex Verdugo drove in a run for Anthony Volpe to make it 4-0 in the second, prompting Dodgers manager Dave Roberts to remove Flaherty.

Stanton’s third inning solo home run made it a five-run game but after that dream start, the wheels fell off in the fifth.

Enrique Hernandez launched the Dodgers rally with a single to lead off the inning and then Tommy Edman was given a reprieve when Judge flubbed a catch in center-field that left the Dodgers with two men on base and no outs.

The Dodgers run on. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

The Dodgers loaded the bases after an error from Volpe, the Yankees shortstop’s throw to third base hitting the dirt.

The Yankees appeared to have stopped the bleeding after Cole struck out Gavin Lux and Shohei Ohtani in quick succession.

But a terrible mix-up between Cole and first baseman Anthony Rizzo allowed Betts to single and score Hernandez to make it 5-1.

Freeman then took full advantage, doubling to score Edman and Will Smith to make it 5-3 with runners on first and third.

Teoscar Hernandez then drove a double to center-field to bring in two more runs and the game was suddenly tied at 5-5.

The Yankees reclaimed the lead in the sixth when Stanton flied out to deep center-field to bring home Juan Soto to leave the Yankees 6-5 up as the game headed to the late innings.

But the Dodgers conjured another rally, with Lux and Betts bagging sac-flys to snatch a one-run lead at 7-6, leaving Buehler to close out victory in the ninth.

The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate as they defeat the New York Yankees 7-6. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

Originally published as ‘Everybody can talk s***... they can’t say a lot now’: Epic mic drop moment as wild comeback seals World Series for Dodgers