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Dodgers win!

Dodgers players huddle together after winning the World Series after Game 5 against the Yankees in New York City on Wednesday night.

(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

The Los Angeles Dodgers rallied from an early five-run deficit to beat the Yankees 7 to 6 Wednesday night and secure their first full-season championship since 1988. It’s the eighth championship in franchise history.

The Dodgers dominated their East Coast rivals through the first three games of the series, scoring a combined 14 runs, compared with the Yankees’ seven.

The Yankees finally came alive in Game 4, scoring 11 runs to avoid a sweep. But they couldn’t hold a five-run lead Wednesday night, demolished “pinstripe by pinstripe,” columnist Bill Plaschke wrote.

Fans on Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles celebrate the Dodgers’ World Series win on Wednesday night.

(Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)

LA erupted into celebration

LA Times reporters fanned out across the region to capture the celebration. Here’s what they found:

Neighbors banged pots and pans on their porches while a chorus of fireworks, cheers and sirens rang out in Highland Park. The sheer display of fireworks across the city rivaled the Fourth of July. Fans converged on the streets near LA Live in downtown Los Angeles, dancing, setting off fireworks and chanting. Police started clearing them out of the intersection not long after the game.

“Tonight, we showed the world that Los Angeles is made of CHAMPIONS,” LA Mayor Karen Bass tweeted.

“This was the greatest team in Los Angeles Dodgers history, soaring through the greatest postseason in Dodgers history, cementing the greatest Dodgers dynasty,” columnist Bill Plaschke wrote.

The Dodgers cemented a ‘golden era’ of the franchise

Securing the Fall Classic capped a kinetic, historic season for the Dodgers, powered in large part by Shohei Ohtani, whose arrival poured energy into the fanbase and could usher in a new era for the ball club.

“This Dodgers’ team always seemed destined to reach the mountaintop,” LA Times Dodgers beat reporter Jack Harris wrote Wednesday night. “They made sure of that in the winter, when a roster already headlined by former MVP winners Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman was bolstered by the additions of Ohtani, star Japanese pitcher Yoshnibu Yamamoto, expected ace Tyler Glasnow and veteran outfielder Teoscar Hernández; and the re-signing of the most central figure of the franchise’s recent past, future Hall of Fame pitcher Clayton Kershaw.”

Victory parade! The celebration will continue straight through Friday

The city has already set a date and time for the victory parade: Friday.

The Dodgers haven’t paraded through Los Angeles since 1988. They won the world series in 2020 but public health protections related to the pandemic prevented a parade.

Here’s more World Series coverage from The Times’ dependent Dodger reporting bullpen:

Today’s top stories

(Los Angeles Times photo illustration; Photos by Joe Raedle/Getty Images, AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

The sprint is on for the White House

Newsom issued an executive order aimed at lowering electric bills

Gascón supports the Menendez brothers’ pray for clemency after nearly 35 years behind bars

• Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón said he supports the Menendez brothers’ bid for clemency from Gov. Gavin Newsom, a move that could set them free.
• Newsom acknowledged on a podcast last weekend that he was reviewing the matter and mentioned the Netflix docudrama that has renewed public interest in the case.

When should a candidate apologize? The question rolls an LA City Council race

• First-time candidate Ysabel Jurado has declined to apologize for saying “f— the police” in a contest where the issue of when and how to apologize has been a dominant theme.
• Jurado has assailed Councilmember Kevin de León about his participation in a conversation that featured Latino political leaders making crude and racist remarks. De León has repeatedly apologized.

What else is going on

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This morning’s must reads

(Michael Laughlin/Associated Press)

Is it Dwyane Wade or Laurence Fishburne? The new Dwyane Wade statue unveiled in Miami has been the focus of intense ridicule on social media. The Heat legend thinks it’s “beautiful.” The artist says critics may not remember what Wade looked like in action.

Other must-reads

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For your downtime

Mariah Carey’s Christmas tour launches Nov. 6 at the Yaamava Theater in Highland and will stop Nov. 8 at the Hollywood Bowl.

(Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)

Going out

Staying in

A question for you: What’s your favorite California locale in a horror flick?

California is home to many iconic horror film locations, and we wanted to know which ones are among your favorites.

Cindy Compert writes: “One important film location you forgot to mention is the Hermosa Beach Community Center where the prom scenes from ‘Carrie’ were filmed. Last week, the city even screened the movie at the Community Center! I happened to take a photo of the marquee.. see below.”

Feel free to email us at [email protected], and your response might be included in the newsletter this week.

And finally … from our archives

The psychological thriller “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” was released in the US on Oct. 31, 1962. Times movie critic Philip K. Scheuer panned the film, writing that stars Bette Davis and Joan Crawford were “grotesque caricatures of themselves.”

But that may be why the film continues to captivate viewers. Behind the scenes, Davis and Crawford were locked in a bitter rivalry that would decades later inspire the FX series “Feud: Bette and Joan.”

Have a great day, from the Essential California team

Ryan Fonseca, reporter
Defne Karabatur, fellow
Andrew Campa, Sunday reporter
Hunter Clauss, multiplatform editor
Christian Orozco, assistant editor
Stephanie Chavez, deputy metro editor
Karim Doumar, head of newsletters

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