Denied in 2020, Dodgers finally get their World Series parade

The Los Angeles Dodgers will finally get their parade.

The team announced that it would commemorate its World Series championship on Friday with a downtown parade followed by a celebration at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers earned that right with their World Series-clinching 7-6 victory over the New York Yankees in the Bronx on Thursday night.

The team said Wednesday that because of logistics, traffic and timing, fans won't be able to attend both the parade and the celebration at Dodger Stadium.

Friday's celebrations, however, will be particularly poignant for both the Dodgers and their fans in Los Angeles.

Their last championship came in 2020, during a COVID-shortened season. Because of restrictions due to the pandemic, the entire World Series was played at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. And after the Dodgers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in six games for the franchise's seventh championship, the city was denied a parade because of those pandemic restrictions.

The Los Angeles Lakers also won the NBA championship that year, and no public celebration was ever held to commemorate the occasion.

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Dodgers reliever Blake Treinen spoke on Wednesday night about how the team wanted to put any stigma attached to the 2020 championship to rest.

"There's been a lot of people that want to discredit 2020, and I don't want to harp on this alot, but it's so great to see the guys that are still here, from Doc [Dave Roberts] to players to front office, being able to finally silence the critics on this," he said, "because every year has its challenges, everybody has the same playing field. That's a great team. This team has zero quit in it, and every single night, if we don't have the outcome we