The Los Angeles Dodgers, after more than 30 years in the wilderness, have won their long-delayed, desperately awaited World Series, and it's much deserved. The Dodgers are an extremely likable team, and no one, other than maybe Giants fans, is all that upset to see them finally get this. But

Sometimes, the broadcast calls of a legendary moment become just as iconic as the play itself. It's too early to tell if that will be the case when we look back later at Julio Urías' strikeout of the Rays' Willy Adames in Game 6 to secure the Dodgers' first World

Rays manager Kevin Cash raised his right arm, signaling for the bullpen. Tampa Bay starter Blake Snell bit his lip and shook his head. And the Dodgers smelled blood. The Dodgers are World Series champions for the first time since 1988 because they seized their moment when Snell's dominant Game

Maybe it needed to happen this way, with the bullpen leading the charge. Maybe it wouldn’t have felt right if Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and his relief corps, pilloried for the last three years of playoff heartbreak, hadn’t come full circle to pull off the ultimate triumph in baseball’s greatest

Clayton Kershaw, Kenley Jansen and Justin Turner, franchise fixtures haunted by past October failures, got shoutouts from manager Dave Roberts on the podium as the World Series trophy was presented to the Dodgers. With a 3-1 clinching win over Tampa Bay in Game 6 on Tuesday night at Globe Life

Clayton Kershaw’s postseason narrative has taken on many forms over the course of his career. But one thing is undeniable: He’s now a World Series champion. It took him some time to get here, and he’s had both good postseason outings and bad, but it has all led to a

For five innings on Tuesday night, the Rays got what they wanted.

After losing the 2017 and '18 World Series, the Dodgers won the '20 Fall Classic in six games, defeating the Rays after sweeps in the Wild Card Series and National League Division Series and a rally from down 3-1 in the NL Championship Series. It’s the Dodgers’ first title since

Kiké Hernández has been a Dodger a long time. Not Clayton Kershaw long, but long enough to know how the 2020 Dodgers stacked up against the franchise’s most recent powerhouse teams, including pennant-winners in 2017 and ’18. So when Hernández says this team was the best of them, it has

The Dodgers' World Series-clinching 3-1 victory in Game 6 had a little bit of everything, from Randy Arozarena capping his historic postseason with yet another home run to World Series MVP Corey Seager knocking in the go-ahead run to Mookie Betts once again impacting the game with both his legs

ARLINGTON -- Pulling a starter early and leaning on the bullpen to protect a lead is part of the philosophy that got the Rays to the World Series. Unfortunately, a decision manager Kevin Cash has made countless times over the last two seasons ultimately ended Tampa Bay’s bid at the

The 2020 Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet went to the Dodgers’ Corey Seager, a deserving winner who crushed just about everything he saw throughout the postseason. But there was little doubt, even after the Rays lost to the Dodgers, 3-1, in Game 6 on

The decision to pull Blake Snell in the sixth inning of Game 6 of the World Series on Tuesday sparked outrage across Twitter. At the time, the Rays were up 1-0 and there was one out and one on. To that point, Snell had allowed just two hits, whiffed nine

Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner was removed from Game 6 of the World Series in the top of the eighth inning Tuesday because of a positive COVID-19 test, Commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed after the Dodgers defeated the Rays, 3-1, to clinch their seventh championship. “It’s a bittersweet night for us,”

Here’s something just about every player in the Rays’ clubhouse will tell you about their skipper: Kevin Cash puts them in the best possible position to succeed, and that plays a role in their ability to find every little competitive advantage -- and thus, every ounce of success.

Manuel Margot took his shot at a Jackie Robinson moment. Clayton Kershaw kept his cool. And the Dodgers kept their lead on the way to a 4-2 win in World Series Game 5 on Sunday.

This was Clayton Kershaw’s moment, his time, his town, and nothing was going to take it from him. Not a Rays team that routinely threatened with leadoff baserunners, not an October narrative that has fairly or unfairly followed him, and certainly not that ambitious baserunner streaking down the third-base line

The first neutral-site World Series has the Dodgers and Rays both calling Arlington’s Globe Life Field home. And perhaps, in that spirit of sharing, it is only appropriate that the two clubs have alternated victories in the first five games of this best-of-seven Fall Classic.

ARLINGTON -- Cito Gaston has had a busy month, between organizing a home remodeling project and recovering from shoulder replacement surgery. Of course, he’s watching a lot of postseason baseball, too.

The Dodgers haven’t won a World Series title since 1988 when they upset the Athletics in five games, but former catcher Mike Scioscia, who played on that team, believes the 2020 Dodgers will end the drought as early as Tuesday night, in Game 6 of the World Series. Acquiring Mookie

In a season that has been unlike any other, it is fitting that this is all ending with a bang. Either it’s going to end Tuesday in a Game 6 that gives the long-suffering Dodgers fans their first World Series title in more than 30 years, or … we’re getting

Maybe this is Mookie Betts’ night for the Dodgers. They always talk about the best player in the gym when looking at potential deciding games in basketball. Another team in Los Angeles just had LeBron James in the gym when they were winning another NBA title. Then he gave Lakers

Max Muncy dropped the bat and stood there watching the baseball sail toward the right-field seats, a thing of beauty. This might just be his signature moment for a World Series that has become his own personal stage. Sure, he’s sharing it with a long list of others as the

Maybe the 2020 World Series is destined to go as long as possible after the short season, and has been headed for a Game 7 from the start. If you watch the Rays play baseball, you know what a tough out they are and how stubborn they are, and how

Twenty-seven outs. If the Dodgers can score some runs, that’s what separates them from winning the World Series for the first time since 1988.