Los Angeles Dodgers beat New York Yankees 7-6 to win World Series

NEW YORK, United States — The Los Angeles Dodgers punished a string of defensive blunders from the New York Yankees to win the World Series on Wednesday (Thursday, Manila time) with a stunning come-from-behind 7-6 victory.

On a night of spellbinding drama at the 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 seal 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 6 after home runs from Aaron Judge, Jazz Chisholm and Giancarlo Stanton fired them into a five-run lead.

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 that included a litany of fielding errors saw the Dodgers pile on five unearned runs to tie the score at 5-5.

Stanton scored Juan Soto with a sacrifice fly to restore New York's lead at 6-5 in the sixth. But the Dodgers hit back in the eighth, with sac-flys from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts giving them a slender 7-6 lead.

In an excruciatingly tense finish, the Dodgers then brought back Game 3 starter Walker Buehler to bag the final three outs in the ninth inning to clinch victory.