The World Series is back in New York, with the Los Angeles Dodgers winning a championship they’ve dreamed of for over half a century. The Dodgers took the first two games at home and then swept away the Yankees to win their first title since 2020. Corey Seager won the MVP award, becoming just the second player to win the honor twice with different teams.
This year’s World Series featured the only deciding Game 7 played outside of a team’s stadium since the MLB began hosting them at neutral sites in 1992. But while it lacked the drama of Game 6 from 1908, when the Red Sox lost their three-game lead and went out in the 10th with two outs and no one on base, this year’s collapse also became part of baseball lore.
It’s Kirk Gibson all over again. Freddie Freeman, who could barely walk a week earlier with his sprained ankle and didn’t know if he’d return to the lineup this summer, stood in front of a roaring crowd at Yankee Stadium Friday night and produced a moment that will be remembered forever in World Series history. His two-out, walk-off grand slam in the 10th inning put the Dodgers up for good in the World Series and earned him the series MVP award.
It was just the latest dramatic moment in a series that had a lot of them.
