Who Wants a Parade?

The FanGraphs Newsletter, November 1, 2024 [READ IN BROWSER]( Novmeber 1, 2024 Since the start of 2013, the Dodgers have been the best team in baseball. Over that 12-season span, they’ve won the National League West 11 times, made it to the NLCS seven times, and made it to the World Series four times. Their 1,215 regular season wins are 95 more than the team in second place, and their 64 postseason wins are also the most in the game. Despite all that, until late Wednesday night, they’d only managed one championship. What deserves to go down as one of the most impressive dynasties in the history of the game has been consistently denied that sort of recognition because of the delightful, infuriating unpredictability of playoff baseball. During an absolutely wild World Series Game 5, that unpredictability finally worked in the Dodgers’ favor. This next paragraph is just a list of things that happened during Game 5, so hold on tight. There was a brief no-hit bid from one starter and a disastrous, abortive start from the other. There were monster home runs, broken bat singles, seeing-eye grounders, great defensive plays, calamitous errors, inexcusable mental mistakes, a five-run inning, a five-run comeback, unearned runs, nearly catastrophic baserunning decisions, a catcher’s interference, a disengagement penalty, a surprisingly high number of sacrifice flies, a starter coming in to get the save on one-day’s rest, and, I’m absolutely certain, a bunch of other stuff that I’m too fried to remember. The only thing that didn’t happen, thankfully, was two ding dongs grabbing Mookie Betts. In the end, the Dodgers were the team left standing, securing a 7-6 victory over the Yankees at Yankee Stadium for their eighth World Series title in franchise history and the second in the past five years. [READ MORE]( [Ready for the Offseason? Too Bad! Angels, Braves Swap Canning for Soler]( These sickos are making trades when the World Series' body isn't even cold yet.. | by Michael Baumann [The Dodgers Embellish Their Playoff Dynasty With a Second Championship]( Under manager Dave Roberts, Los Angeles has put together one of the greatest runs in baseball history. | by Jay Jaffe [The Yankees Are Hoping Bad Baserunning Wins Championships Too]( The Yankees are the worst baserunning team in the majors. That’s one way to compare them to the 2004 Red Sox. | by Matt Martell [On Mistakes that Probably Won't Come Back to Bite You]( A one-in-15 chance of winning the World Series probably isn’t worth burning Michael Kopech or Blake Treinen. But it’s probably worth dusting off someone like Ryan Brasier, just to see what happens if he puts up a zero. | by Michael Baumann [Four-Homers Freddie Freeman Puts His Name in the Record Books, Again]( Still recovering from his late-September ankle sprain, the Dodgers first baseman is on a tear for the ages. | by Jay Jaffe 🎧 [Effectively Wild Episode 2238: That's a (World Series) Wrap]( [DOWNLOAD THE FANGRAPHS APP]( [FanGraphs & Effectively Wild Merch Is Now Available at BreakingT!]( [ORDER HERE]( [How Dodgers validated their dominance]( by Jeff Passan, ESPN [Here were the top 10 moments of an epic postseason]( by Anthony Castrovince, MLB [Keith Law’s top 50 MLB free agents: Juan Soto headlines a decent overall class]( by Keith Law, The Athletic ($) [@fangraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [FanGraphs]( [RSS]( [FORWARD]( [SUBSCRIBE]( Copyright © 2024 FanGraphs Inc, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the FanGraphs Newsletter. Our mailing address is: FanGraphs Inc 3017 N Underwood StArlington, VA 22213 [Add us to your address book]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](