Dodgers Head To The World Series With Historic Victory

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Los Angeles Dodgers came from behind to beat the Atlanta Braves for their third World Series berth in four years. Sunday night's 4 to 3 win was the greatest postseason comeback in the Dodgers fabled history, giving the team the National League Championship Series and a chance to play the Tampa Bay Rays in the World Series

Corey Seager was named MVP of the National League Championship Series, having dominated with five home runs and 11 RBIs in the series, according to ESPN.

Down three games to won, the team repeatedly staved off elimination to force a game 7. Having trailed most of the game, the game was tied at the bottom of the 7th when Cody Bellinger hit a homerun, giving the Dodgers their first lead of the night. The Dodgers kept the lead and will play the Tampa Bay Rays in the World Series. Game 1 will take place Tuesday.

Before Bellinger's homerun, a turning point came in the fifth when Mookie Betts leaped into the wall to stop a certain homerun by the Braves' Freddie Freeman.

The Dodgers are just the 14th MLB team in 89 tries to overcome a three-games-to-one deficit and win a best-of-seven series. This is the 10th time the Dodgers have trailed a postseason series three games to one. Never before have they overcome that deficit.

Dustin May started for the Dodgers against Atlanta's Ian Anderson in the league's first Game 7 matchup of rookie right-handers. May got off to a rocky start, walking two players and letting in one run before the first out.

Rookie right- hander Tony Gonsolin replaced May in the second inning but gave up a homerun to Dansby Swanson, giving the Braves a 2-0 lead.

Will Smith hit Justin Turner and Max Muncy in to tie up the game in the third inning. The Braves regained the lead with a run in the next inning, but that was their last run of the game. Turner brought the Braves' momentum to a halt when he ended a game of pickel between third and homebase with a diving tag on Dansby Swanson before throwing Austin Riley out as he slid into third.

Kiké Hernández tied the game in the six inning, and Bellinger came through with the game winner in seventh inning.

Game 7 was played at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, like the rest of the series. The final three rounds of baseball's postseason are being played at neutral sites in an attempt to reduce the possibility of spreading the coronavirus.

The World Series will begin Tuesday at Globe Life Field with the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays defeated Houston, 4-2, on Saturday to win the American League Championship Series four games to three, thwarting the Astros' attempt to be the second MLB team to overcome a three- games-to-none deficit to win a postseason series.

The Dodgers had forced a decisive seventh game with a 3-1 victory Saturday, scoring all their runs in the first inning to win their second consecutive game while facing elimination.

Sunday's victory was the Dodgers' 118th postseason victory.

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City News Service and Patch Staffer Paige Austin contributed to this report.