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.
New York ace Gerrit Cole needed only 49 pitches to cruise through four hitless innings, and his defense actually saved a potential run in the fourth when Judge, with Betts aboard after a leadoff walk, raced to the wall in left-center field to make a leaping catch of a Freddie Freeman drive before slamming into the wall. But the Yankees suffered an epic defensive meltdown in the top of the fifth, committing two physical errors and one mental gaffe that allowed the Dodgers to score five unearned runs and tie the score 5-5. “When you’re given extra outs and you ca.
