World Series Game 5 takeaways: Dodgers top Yankees for title - ESPN

The Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions after winning a thrilling Game 5 at Yankee Stadium.

After falling behind 5-0 early, the Dodgers took advantage of a miscue-filled fifth inning by the New York Yankees to even the score before finally pulling ahead in the eighth inning.

We've got it all covered, from live updates and analysis during the game to takeaways after the final pitch and our lasting impression of L.A.'s Fall Classic triumph.

Dodgers — from the stars to the supporting cast — are World Series champs

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Dodgers: There might have been more talented Dodgers teams in this era. There have definitely been healthier ones. This one, though, was the most perseverant. And so it was fitting, perhaps, that on the night they clinched, the Dodgers overcame a five-run deficit and used eight relievers — one of them a starting pitcher by trade — to secure 23 outs in a come-from-behind victory over the Yankees in Game 5. The last of those relievers was Walker Buehler, the Game 3 starter who had been dreadful as a reliever throughout his career and had been six years removed from his last stint out of the bullpen.

When Buehler took the mound in the ninth inning, the Dodgers had taken advantage of a litany of Yankees mistakes to score five runs against a dominant Gerrit Cole in the top of the fifth and used back-to-back eighth-inning sacrifice flies by Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts to take their first lead. In the next half-inning, a tiring Blake Treinen had confronted a two-on, one-out situation and gotten out of it unscathed. Then Buehler came in and retired the bottom of the Yankees' lineup in order, securing the Dodgers' first championship since 2020 — and their first full-season