That’s for certain.
And that whole wheels-came-off thing after Cole was done in the 5th should not have happened. But it did.
But, congrats to the Dodgers on a well-played series!
In other news, pitchers and catchers report in 104 days. 
Awesome win.
5 unearned runs and lose by 1. Tough way to go out.
The 5 unearned runs is a little misleading. There was a lot of crappy pitching after the error. That shit messes with you, though.
It’s like Independence Day with all the fireworks popping around.
I haven’t enjoyed watching baseball this much in a long time. Great series, great teams.
An amazing game and amazing series. And one of the most stressful in recent memory.
Yayyyyyy…Yankees lose.
As a former Red Sox fan (Good job trading a first ballot HOFer) and former baseball fan (Good job getting rid of any possiblity of a one game playoff and punishing innovation and instituting ghost runners)…
Mookie’s Dodgers humiliating the Yanks at home was the best possible outcome.
Halloween came a day early. Hit that fly to Judge 1000 times, and he’ll catch it 999 times. That play at third might have been better to take the sure out at first (which wouldn’t have happened were it not for Judge’s error). The Rizzo nonchalants a grounder to first and Cole fails to cover. Sometimes bad luck comes back at you all at once.
You can pretty much count on New York Post sportswriters to take a gracious view of Yankee missteps and put a positive gloss on things.
Well, maybe not.
Joel Sherman calls the Yankees “perhaps the most technically unsound team to ever make it this far” and invokes Bill Buckner in describing the failed play at first that enabled the 5-run inning. He goes on to say “The Yankees lost the first game of the World Series and the last game of the 2024 MLB season because they are bad at baseball.”
And another signature moment of class by a Yankees fan.
I’m glad the Yankees lost, and in the fashion they did. I’m mildly happy the Dodgers won, especially for Mookie Betts who I really liked when he was in Boston.
Nah, while I love baseball, I also hate the World Series going into November.
Nov 1 is when I make a mental flip to ice hockey and basketball in my sports focus
The season is over and the right team are Champions.
Bring on the hot stove!
With this being the fifth consecutive year a team has won the World Series with someone named Will Smith on the roster, the Royals asking price for Will Smith (the reliever) is now sky high.
I always enjoy watching baseball, but…
I gotta tell you, it wasn’t a great World Series. It went five games and felt like the Dodgers won it in three. I can’t remember the last time a team played as badly in the World Series as the Yankees did; probably Detroit in 2012, who in fairness only made one error but didn’t really show up otherwise.
It was suggestive of what people were already saying anyway, which is that right now the NL is a way stronger league. I have a hard time believing the Yankees are one of the two best teams in baseball. They are certainly the most dependent-on-two-guys pennant winner since the 1980 Phillies.
There were three games the Yankees arguably could/should have won. They blew a 3-2 lead in the ninth in the first game, then had bases loaded but a would-have-been-grand-slam fell just short in the ninth of the second game, then blew a 5-run lead in the fifth game.
A 3-2 Yankees series lead, heading back to Los Angeles, would have been entirely plausible.
Meh. Yankees West beat Yankees East. Wake me when they even the salary playing field in MLB. Doesn’t seem to have hurt the NFL that much
On the Betts hit toward first in the 5th inning, whose fault was the failure to get an out ?