Comeback win: Dodgers win World Series
What a comeback, what a triumph: The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series after a dramatic game. The team from California secured its second Major League Baseball championship in five years and its eighth overall at Yankee Stadium in New York – although the Dodgers were already down 5-0 in game five.
But a disastrous fifth inning by the Yankees with a series of defensive errors brought Los Angeles back into the game, and the Dodgers ended up winning 7-6 – and clinching the best-of-seven series 4-1.
“Obviously we are indestructible,” said Dodgers professional Markus Lynn “Mookie” Betts. Despite the early deficit, everyone was there for everyone: “It was love, it was fighting spirit. It was just a beautiful thing and I’m just proud of us and happy for us.”
Dodgers star Frederick Freeman became the most valuable player of the series; the first baseman hit four home runs in a row in the four games.
Seider with two assists in home defeat
The German national ice hockey player Moritz Seider experienced a bitter evening in the North American professional league NHL. The defender led his Detroit Red Wings to 2:3 against the Winnipeg Jets with two assists in the middle third, but in the end they still lost 2:6 at home.
“We can’t allow ourselves to play games like that,” complained Detroit captain Dylan Larkin, “most of our strikers were just pedestrians today. We lost the puck way too many times and let them do whatever they wanted.”
For Seider it was assists number five and six of the season. Detroit suffered its third defeat in a row and is only eleventh in the Eastern Conference. In Winnipeg, Kyle Connor passed the 500 point mark. After one goal and two assists, the 27-year-old now has 502 points.
NBA: Wagner sick, bankruptcy for Orlando – Schröder wins
No Wagner, no chance: Without the ill basketball world champion Franz Wagner in the final phase, the Orlando Magic lost 99:102 to the Chicago Bulls in the NBA – although the Magic were in the lead by 20 points at one point. Weakened, Wagner left the game at the beginning of the fourth quarter and never returned; without the German forward, Orlando couldn’t do much on offense.
Wagner, who was unable to finish the game in the recent win against the Indiana Pacers due to illness, had a total of seven points, four assists and three rebounds. His brother Moritz also scored seven points, but in the end it was Orlando’s second defeat in the fifth game of the season.
National team captain Dennis Schröder and his Brooklyn Nets, on the other hand, are getting better and better. In the 119:106 win against the Memphis Grizzlies, Schröder once again showed a strong performance; the 31-year-old led his team to its second win in the last three games with 33 points and eight assists.
Schröder made the difference by scoring in crucial moments when Memphis was on the verge of going on a run.
