The Dodgers clinched their second World Series in four years, and their fans didn’t waste time taking a victory lap.
Los Angeles closed out the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium to take Game 5 and clinch the Fall Classic on Wednesday. The win furthered the Dodgers’ case as the team of the decade and gave former Red Sox star Mookie Betts his third World Series title.
Fellow former Boston star Alex Verdugo was the final out of Game 5, and it was the perfect opportunity for Dodgers fans to bring back a 2022 quote from the 28-year-old.
“A 60-game season, it’s still hard to judge to this day,” Verdugo told reporters at the time, per The Boston Globe. “Like yeah, it’s a World Series, right? Yeah, they got a ring. But they didn’t play any games at their home field. They didn’t. There weren’t any fans there. It was 60 games. Anybody could ball out for 60 games. That extra 102 is a big difference. They won it, it’s a true one, for what we call it. But I still call it as I see it, it’s still a 60-gamer.”
It was poetic for fans on X then to see the roller coaster World Series performance from Verdugo. Fans wasted little time rubbing it in.
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There were even sarcastic thank you’s for the former Los Angeles outfielder for gifting the club Betts in the iconic 2020 trade.
Verdugo seemed to play it cool in his postgame news conference, but Dodgers fans won’t ever let him forget his 2022 comments.
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