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In a winner-take-all Game 7 for the ages, the Los Angeles Dodgers bested the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in an 11-inning classic in the early morning hours Sunday to become back-to-back World Series champions.
A familiar face to Game 7 this year was on the mound for the Nationals at Minute Maid Park. Max Scherzer started for Washington and pitched five innings. Washington got three runs in the seventh, and tacked on an insurance run in the eighth and two in the ninth.
What does it take to overcome the odds and repeat as champions? Buster Olney asked the last group of guys to do it.
The New York Yankees failed to reach the World Series this season and could lose some key players in free agency.
The Dodgers are attempting to become MLB's first repeat World Series winner since the New York Yankees won three Fall Classics in a row from 1998-2000. On the other side, the Blue Jays are hoping to claim their first World Series victory since they won back-to-back titles in 1992-93.
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Ex-Yankees, Mets skipper fumes after field flaw in World Series: ‘How does that even happen?’
Former Yankees and Mets manager Buck Showalter calls it like he sees it. After Game 6 of the World Series was potentially decided over a ballpark blunder in the ninth inning, he railed over a “multi-billion-dollar industry” allowing this to happen.
New York Yankees great Derek Jeter joked Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts about the 2020 World Series title, lightheartedly labeling it as “two and a half rings."