Fans lining Dodgers parade route early: ‘I had to be here’
Corey Van Vactor, 50, has been going to Dodger games since he was three years old with his father. He works down the street from the parade, and came straight off of his overnight shift.
Hall of Fame won’t get Freddie Freeman’s grand slam ball, but Dodgers donate World Series memorabilia
The most valuable piece of memorabilia from the Dodgers’ World Series championship run is easily identified. It’s the baseball struck by Freddie Freeman that landed in the right-field pavilion in the 10th inning of Game 1, the first walk-off grand slam in fall classic history.
Auction experts estimate it would fetch more than $2 million, the value burnished by the Dodgers winning the five-game series over the New York Yankees and Freeman being named the most valuable player. The ball was scooped up by a 10-year-old diehard Dodgers fan, and he’s been floating on cloud nine ever since.
How one ‘crazy’ inning ignited Dodgers’ comeback in World Series clincher
NEW YORK — There was only one word to describe the five-run fifth inning that resurrected the Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday night, and leave it to the man who produced the most quirky hit of the implausible rally to deliver it.
“Crazy!” Mookie Betts screamed, his eyes stinging from the beer and champagne teammates poured over his head after a stunning 7-6 come-from-behind victory over the New York Yankees clinched the eighth championship in Dodgers franchise history. “It was crazy how it unfolded. I mean, you gotta play a clean game to beat us.”
The Yankees did not play a clean game Wednesday night, bunching most of their mistakes in a fifth inning that had to be one of the ugliest in postseason history, one that wiped out the 5-0 lead they built on Aaron Judge’s two-run home run in the first inning and solo shots by Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the first and Giancarlo Stanton in the third.
Shaikin: Magic Johnson all smiles over Dodgers’ transformation into a World Series power
NEW YORK — Magic Johnson smiled, because of course he did. It is the smile that won over a city. It is the smile that eased our anxieties over the decades.
In 1980, the kid smiled and told Los Angeles he would lead the Lakers to a championship on a night without Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In 2012, the old man smiled and told Los Angeles he would lead the Dodgers out of bankruptcy and back to baseball’s promised land.
It really is Magic: With a legendary Laker as one of the owners, the Dodgers now are the most popular team in L.A.
Dodgers used Kobe Bryant’s ‘Job’s not finished’ quote in World Series run. Vanessa says they got it done
Job finished.
It’s a succinct way of phrasing what the World Series-champion Dodgers accomplished this season, after years of regular-season dominance followed by postseason disappointment.
It’s also appropriate because of the Mamba Mentality they showed along the way.
Vanessa Bryant posted the phrase “Job finished” on her Instagram Stories on Wednesday night after the Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees 7-6 in Game 5 of the World Series to clinch their eighth championship.
New L.A. Times book ‘Best in Sho’ commemorates Dodgers’ World Series winning season
“Best in Sho,” a new Los Angeles Times’ book, chronicles the Dodgers’ dramatic run to the eighth World Series title in franchise history.
The 160-page coffee table book features The Times’ award-winning reporting, commentary and photography. It highlights the offseason signings of superstar Shohei Ohtani and other key playmakers, a unique season opener in South Korea, resilience amid injuries and adversity and a postseason run unlike any other featuring heroic efforts by Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts, Walker Buehler and many others.
The book is available for presale at The Times’ store and will ship by Dec. 9. Order by Dec. 3 to get a 15% discount.
Looking back at the Dodgers’ path through the postseason before their victory over the New York Yankees in the 2024 World Series.
Plaschke: The Greatest! Historic Dodgers overpower Yankees for 8th World Series title
NEW YORK — 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 bludgeoned at their essence, painfully demolished pinstripe by pinstripe.
The Dodgers did it. They really did it.
The team that chokes swallowed swords. The team that crumbles spit fire. The most teeth-grinding great team in baseball chomped through a legacy of frustration on the sort of October night that, while once forgettable, now will live forever.
Photos: Dodgers fans take to the streets after they defeat the Yankees for their 8th World Series title
Crowds of people took to the streets to revel in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ World Series-clinching Game 5 victory over the New York Yankees from downtown Los Angeles to Echo Park, forcing the Los Angeles Police Department to issue several dispersal orders after some businesses were looted and a Metro bus was vandalized and then set ablaze.
Dodgers fans celebrate as fireworks go off in downtown Los Angeles after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the World Series.
Dodgers beat Yankees to win another World Series, cement ‘golden era’ of franchise dominance
NEW YORK — 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 in a pandemic-shortened 2020 season.
This, as president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman had declared time and again, was supposed to be a “golden era of Dodgers baseball,” a generation of organizational excellence unmatched in the storied, but often tortured, history of the century-old franchise.
Don’t rain on our parade! Forecasted storm should not affect Friday’s Dodger celebration
Don’t worry, it looks like there’s nothing that could — literally — rain on the Dodger’s World Series championship parade Friday.
A weekend storm expected to bring the region’s first precipitation since May should not arrive in time to dampen any victory celebration. The Dodgers won their eighth world title Wednesday night with a 7-6 victory over the New York Yankees.
Dodgers World Series victory parade route
Here’s a look at the route for the Dodgers’ World Series victory parade, which is scheduled to start at 11 a.m. on Spring Street in front of City Hall in downtown Los Angeles.
The route is easily accessible via the Metro rail Red Line via the Civic Center/Grand Park and 7th Street/Metro Center stations. In addition “Dodger Stadium Express” while be running from Union Station for anyone attending the victory celebration at Dodger Stadium after the parade.
Ready to celebrate? Dodgers’ World Series championship parade will be Friday
After 36 years, the Dodgers have a date for a World Series championship parade: It’s Friday.
The morning parade will start at City Hall at 11 a.m. and end on 5th Street, near Figueroa Street. Members of the Dodgers will be transported atop double-decker buses. A celebration at Dodger Stadium will follow at 12:15 p.m., with tickets required for the event.
The Dodgers said logistics would make it impossible for fans to attend both events. For the Dodger Stadium celebration, parking gates will open at 8:30 a.m. and stadium entry gates will open at 9 a.m.
Television coverage of all of Friday’s events will begin at 9:30 a.m. on SportsNet LA and various local channels. Radio coverage will air on AM 570.