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Astros defeat Dodgers, 5-1, to earn their first World Series title

LOS ANGELES - The gunmetal gray clouds hung over the lights of Dodger Stadium as darkness descended on the 2017 Dodgers season inside this ballpark, a beacon inside the jet-black night of Chavez Ravine. Lit up all summer, electric for so much of this postseason, on the first day of November this stadium conceded the arrival of winter.

The calendar flipped over during the second inning, far too early for the 54,124 fans gathered here, as Astros outfielder George Springer unleashed a home run that felled Dodgers starter Yu Darvish. The end came in the seventh game of the World Series, deeper than any Dodgers team

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