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Dodgers repeat as champs after unforgettable Game 7 thriller

A historic 11th-inning go-ahead homer by Will Smith. A heroic pitching effort from Yoshinobu Yamamoto on zero rest. A ninth inning fit for an action movie script. At the end of it all, L.A. was on top once again.

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Clayton Kershaw, who was warming up in the right-field bullpen, didn’t have time to keep tabs on the situation in the bottom of the 11th. He thought there were two outs. “Honestly,” the retiring pitcher said afterward, “I didn’t know. … [Bullpen catcher Josh Bard] looked at me and said, ‘We just won the World Series,’ and I was like, ‘Are you sure?’”

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