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    The Yankees’ fifth-inning errors cost them the season as the Dodgers won the World Series

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    The New York Yankees were cruising to a Game 5 victory on Wednesday night and looking to send the World Series back west on a two-game winning streak.

    They were five points ahead and had seemingly taken over the momentum in the series. They had their ace on the mound, who pitched as well as he has all season. Hope grew in the Bronx.

    Then the fifth inning happened.

    The Yankees made three major fielding errors in the top of the inning, opening the door for the Los Angeles Dodgers to come back and ultimately win the World Series. New York, leading 5-0, gave up five runs in an immediately infamous inning.

    All five runs came with two outs. And all five runs were unearned for starter Gerrit Cole.

    Aaron Judges makes an error in the outfield
    Aaron Judge makes the first of several errors in the fifth inning. Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

    “We just took advantage of every mistake they made that inning,” Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernández said after the game. “We put together some good at bats. We put the ball in play. A lot of people say, “If you put the ball in play, things can happen.” It happened to us that inning and we scored five runs.”

    This is what happened.

    After a single by Kiké Hernández – the first hit of the evening for the Dodgers – Tommy Edman hit a ball to center field, which was dropped by Aaron Judge.

    That put Edman in first place and Hernández in second place.

    Next, Will Smith hit a ground ball short, but Anthony Volpe’s throw bounced to Jazz Chisholm at third base. He couldn’t sustain the force out, which loaded the bases for Los Angeles with no one out.

    Cole responded by striking out Gavin Lux and Shohei Ohtani. All the fans in the Bronx gasped. It looked like Cole would escape the inning without giving up a run.

    But then Mookie Betts hit what should have been an inning-ending grounder to first base — except Anthony Rizzo expected Cole to cover the bag as he fielded the ball.

    Cole never ran over, Betts reached safely and the Dodgers were finally on the board.

    With the Dodgers finally pulling through after the three miscues, World Series MVP Freddie Freeman came to bat and hit a two-run single with the bases still loaded.

    Then, a two-run double by Teoscar Hernández, one batter later, tied the game.

    Cole threw 38 pitches in the inning, faced 10 batters and gave up four hits.

    Yes, the Yankees had five more at-bats to make up for their disastrous fifth.

    But if they had just made a few routine plays down the field, they would almost certainly be heading to Los Angeles for Game 6.

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