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For the second time in five seasons, the Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions. Dodgers win the 120th Series for it's 8th title, being rewarded in sweeter fashion than the "asterisked" COVID title. This World Series win is 36 years in the making for LA. Dodgers Nation can now celebrate the right way (originally the right way), and the nine WS rostered players that were also on the 2020 World Series roster; will have the glory of getting a parade, and partying like true world champions (COVID restrictions in '20).
What a wild celebration it's already been with the parade slated for this afternoon. Pure anarchy flooded the streets at night in LA, as the players champagne showered across the Yankees' visitor locker-room and NYC 'til dusk on the EC. Idiots rioted, blew off their fingers (graphic), and spent the night in a tank. Others took the night to spread the right vibes, enjoyin' a long night of good vibes like it was '88 again.
Surprisingly, the Series was conquered in just five games. A quick finish, which was a let down, but each game had been close outside of the closing five innings of game-4. Yankees just fell apart on the offensive, and the pitching couldn't hold off hands down the best lineup in all of baseball. Aaron Judge couldn't manage to break his playoff theme, falling back into the black hole; bringing his squad-mates in with him. New York's energy at the plate was dissipated as they got shut down by a unique playing of the cards by Dave Roberts and LA's pitching staff. As surprising it was to see the series end in quick fashion, the biggest surprise was seeing superstars Judge and Ohtani be absent most of the series. Bummed ankle walkin', rib busted, superhuman Freddie Freeman is the cat who stepped up in unprecedented fashion to take the slack... and the star-light.
Freeman put his cape on in the grandest moments to push the Dodgers offensively. Doing so in record-breaking fashion. Dodgers don't win the Classic without Freeman. The cat showed unreal poise, grit, and determination. In only five games, Freeman drove in 12 runs to tie the World Series record set by the Yankees’ Bobby Richardson in 1960 (in seven games). Freeman crushed homers in each of the Classic’s first four games to join the Astros’ George Springer (2017) as the only player to homer in four straight games within a single World Series... in doing so, he extended his record-setting personal World Series homer streak to six, dating back to '21. Each homer was monumental for LA. Rather to walk it off, start a spurt, or break the gates; Freeman had moment after moment... and seized them all. He is the first man to ever hit a walk-off grand slam in the World Series:
video via MLB//X
Freeman mirrored the epic Kirk Gibson walk-off two-run homer in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series, 36 years later. The similarities between the two walk-offs are uncanny. Same part of right field, both with two outs in the inning, and of course both on an injured leg. Joe Davis with an absolute EPIC call in real time. Hats off to him for delivering us a special-special moment along with Freddie. That's a killer call! To mirror Vin Scully's call from Gibson's blast in real time... a craftsman! Baseball fiend! Davis helped make the moment even greater. Freddie helped make it float in the Cooperstown pensieve. The drive, the power, and the beautiful bat-flip:
video via MLB//X
Now, I won't spend the time in this space to talk about why the bloody hell Aaron Boone had Nestor Cortes on the bump in the 10th (hadn't pitched all postseason), cause that's just wild. Freddie made 'em pay. As he did all Boone and the Yankees all series. Now he sits in Cooperstown with an elite group of baseball legends as just the 12th player in MLB history to win a MVP and a World Series MVP:
Freeman was spectacular, but he surely wasn't the only factor in the win. Pitching was great up and down as Roberts used some interesting tactics across the postseason to sail the conquer. Yoshinobu Yamamoto proved his big-game tag once again in his first chance in the Classic, and Walker Buehler pitched 6 lockdown innings to secure a win and a save across games three and five. The bullpen went to war, and put the work in to come out shining. It was a collective win; a unit win for the Dodgers. The lineup stepped up when they needed to. Kiké Hernández continued his playoff wave. Mookie Betts broke out the shell, and Tommy Edman was beyond marvelous to lead the team with 20 World Series hits.
Going into the season, the Dodgers were the obvious favorites, and they got the job done. Good thing; the baseball world would have been waiting at the front door to rub the loss in the face of the 'chise. Dodgers had to get it done in year-1, and they had to beat that Yankees team, especially with how poorly the lot of them were batting (besides Soto). It was made known quick that the two squads were unmatched, especially with a depleted Aaron Judge. Now that the Dodgers have won; we have the makings of a potential dynasty. We all now that they aren't done spending either... thanks to Ohtani.
Waking up a Dodger, a World Champion, had to been a sweet moment this morning... if any of them actually went to sleep. Now, in real-time they practically get to celebrate two titles across the city. With more looming in the future. Shohei is likely to return to pitching next season. Freddie and Mookie will be back hungry for more hardware. There is another superstar Japanese import in the pipeline for 'em to snatch. Just nothing but positive light ahead for the Dodgers (yuck, ha). The rest of the league have its target. Can they hit it? All hail the new champions. Who gon stop 'em; who gon stop 'em huh?
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