Dodgers pitcher credits 'Fat Joe Curse' for Yankees' collapse in World Series Game 5

LeSean McCoy reacts to the New York Yankees' collapse in Game 5 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The New York Yankees were up 5-0 in the fifth inning in Game 5 of the World Series, but Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly knew his team would come back. 

Why? The "Fat Joe curse."

"When we were down 5-0, and they put Fat Joe up on the board, and I was like, ‘Oh, it’s an easy dub now,'" Kelly said after the Dodgers' Game 5 comeback and World Series-clinching victory, via Audacy Sports podcast host Rob Bradford. 

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Recording art Fat Joe preforms before Game 3 of the 2024 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Yankee Stadium. (Brad Penner/Imagn Images)

"You know Fat Joe is the curse. They started kicking the ball around and playing Yankee defense."

The Yankees committed a series of errors in the fifth inning. Aaron Judge dropped a routine fly ball in center field. Shortstop Anthony Volpe misfired on a throw to third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. And Gerrit Cole and Anthony Rizzo did not communicate who was going to cover the first base bag on a simple ground ball.

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Los Angeles Dodgers relief pitcher Joe Kelly reacts after delivering a pitch against the Houston Astros during the eighth inning at Minute Maid Park.  (Erik Williams/USA Today Sports)

The Dodgers took advantage of the miscues, scoring five runs and erasing the 5-0 deficit en route to a 7-6 victory. 

"(Fat Joe) was on the jumbotron, I’m pretty sure, right before the fifth. I looked over at [Brent] Honeywell and said, ‘The Fat Joe Curse. Watch.’ And we started chipping away, chipping away,