The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 in Sport 6 of the World Sequence on Tuesday, clinching the franchise’s seventh world championship and first since 1988. The win secured a 4-2 collection victory towards the Rays within the playoff finale performed at in Arlington, TX, the primary neutral-site World Sequence ever due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Mookie Betts put the sport out of attain with a solo homer within the eighth inning, after the Dodgers used seven pitchers to maintain the Rays at bay.

The victory delivered to a detailed a baseball season not like another, with the common season shortened to 60 video games. Main League Baseball’s 2020 season was supposed to start out March 26, however the pandemic compelled a delay to July 23, with a number of marquee gamers (just like the L.A. Angels’ Mike Trout) opting out over security considerations.

A number of video games needed to be rescheduled due to constructive exams, which created issues for the league’s already modified schedule. The postseason’s bubble plan held, nonetheless, with groups enjoying their collection in designated cities to restrict journey.

The season did create some odd moments, from watching the Toronto Blue Jays play “residence” video games in Buffalo, NY, the place their minor-league affiliate performs, and seeing groups in the course of the playoffs groups enjoying “residence video games” in stadiums that weren’t their very own.

The Dodgers’ final World Sequence victory got here in 1988, highlighted by Kirk Gibson’s famed residence run in Sport 1 towards the Oakland A’s. The franchise gained its first World Sequence in Brooklyn in 1955 earlier than shifting to Los Angeles for the 1958 season. In L.A. it gained titles in 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981 and ’88.

That is the primary title for the Dodgers underneath the possession of a bunch that features traders Magic Johnson, producer Peter Guber and Billie Jean King. The consortium, Guggenheim Baseball Administration, acquired the group in 2012 for $2.15 billion.

It’s additionally the second world championship for Los Angeles this 12 months, after the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers gained their 17th title on October 11 to cap that league’s personal shortened season, which was accomplished in its entirety at one location, a quarantine bubble in Orlando.

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