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Los Angeles was ready to party on Wednesday night. After the Dodgers won their second World Series in five years with a thrilling 7-6 Game 5 win over the Yankees on the East Coast, the city on the other side of the country went nuts — with fireworks being shot off and fans taking to … Read more

Walker Buehler’s day off became his day on, with the Dodgers exhausting their bullpen options in the late innings Wednesday night.  The right-hander, who was superb in his Game 3 start Monday, was summoned to pitch the ninth and worked a perfect frame in the Dodgers’ 7-6 victory over the Yankees in Game 5 of … Read more

No one can doubt the Dodgers now.  After hearing fans and haters make comments about the Dodgers’ 2020 World Series title that came in a shortened season, Los Angeles silenced any of that noise with a World Series win on Wednesday, defeating the Yankees 7-6 in Game 5. That was clearly on the mind of … Read more

Fans celebrate inside Tom’s Watch Bar at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday night. (OnScene.TV) Ecstatic fans took to the streets of Los Angeles in an explosive expression of joy Wednesday night after the Dodgers won the franchise’s eighth World Series title. They became the first Major League Baseball team to win a … Read more

Kevin Porter Jr. of the Clippers drives against Donovan Clingan, center, and Scoot Henderson in the second half. (Ryan Sun / Associated Press) Four games into their season, and the Clippers only seem to know how to play close games. It was tight against the Phoenix Suns in a loss and tight against the Denver … Read more

Column: The Greatest! Historic Dodgers overpower Yankees for 8th World Series championship The silent, somber Bronx suddenly was bathed in joyous dancing blue, a screaming scrum leaping and bouncing and hugging into history. The Dodgers did it. They really did it. The hallowed New York Yankees stood frozen in their dugout, stripped of their aura and … Read more

Dodgers beat Yankees to win another World Series, cement ‘golden era’ of franchise dominance It had felt so close, yet remained so difficult to cement. For more than a decade, the Dodgers had aimed for more than just regular-season success. More than just repeated trips to the postseason. More than just a lone, COVID-bubble championship … Read more

Aaron Judge’s bat woke up. He made a fantastic leaping grab in the outfield. But it was the play he didn’t come up with that will haunt him this offseason. He was unable to come up with a Tommy Edman line drive with a runner on and nobody out in the fifth inning, an error … Read more

If this was it for Juan Soto as a Yankee, it ended in ugly fashion. Sure, the free agent-to-be reached base four straight times and scored twice in Game 5 of the World Series against the Dodgers on Wednesday. But with the Yankees trailing by a run in the bottom of the eighth, Soto led … Read more

Fans at Yankee Stadium appear unable to stop behaving badly — forcing a well-known actor to leave Game 5 early. Wendell Pierce, who has appeared in “The Wire” and “Jack Ryan” took to X to say he left the Yankees-Dodgers World Series game in The Bronx because he was talking to a Dodgers fan and … Read more