After spending nearly a Billion dollars on offseason Free Agent signings, then making big trades at the deadline in July, the Los Angeles Dodgers have been crowned the World Series Champions on October 30th, 2024. They started off strong with a 3-0 lead, taking the first two in Los Angeles, and first game in New York. The first ever walk-off Grand Slam, courtesy of World Series MVP Freddie Freeman, kicked off the series in Los Angeles. It wasn’t the feared Shohei Ohtani who did the damage this series, but Freeman who had homeruns in the first four games (making it six homeruns in the last six World Series games he’d played in, a new record). This all culminated in a nailbiter of a Game 5, winning 7-6 against the New York Yankees, in New York.
After much debate about the umpires, they ended up doing a fairly good job; it was the fans who interfered with the games more than anyone, really. There was a Dodger fan catching a ball in play out in Left Field in Game 1, then a Yankee fan trying to rip out a ball that Mookie Betts caught in the Right Field stands. Both gentleman were escorted from the respective games, with the Yankee fan being banned from attending Game 5 at Yankee Stadium. Only the Dodger incident had an “iffy” impact on the game, with Gleyber Torres’ having to settle for a Double and Aaron Boone asking to have the play reviewed as he thought it was a homerun. Even if the homerun was awarded, the Grand Slam in the bottom of the ninth would’ve sealed the deal. As for the New York incident, umpires were quick to call fan interference, as it was clear that Mookie Betts had caught the ball, with the fan removing it from his glove. I have to give Mookie a lot of credit for just walking away (albeit upset), from the stands and continuing to play. 
This was the first full season World Series that the Dodgers have won since the 1988 Los Angeles Dodgers went and beat the Oakland Athletics, under Tommy Lasorda’s management. Orel Hershiser their Ace at the time, Kirk Gibson’s hobble homerun, and many more things that happened before I was even born that I can’t name.
