The Dodgers won another World Series on Wednesday night against the Yankees -- won it, 7-6, at Yankee Stadium -- winning it with a crazy comeback from 5-0 down in the fifth inning.

It is their second World Series title in five years, and that first one (2020) came during the COVID-shortened season, which some fans have -- perhaps unfairly -- put a mental asterisk next to. There are no questions about this title, nor about the Dodgers’ run of dominance.

They have now finished in first place 12 of the past 13 seasons, and even with some early flameouts in the postseason, it took five teams that ended up winning the Series -- the Cubs in 2016, the Astros in '17, the Red Sox in '18, the Nationals in '19 and the Braves in '21 -- to knock them off. They have an organization that is the gold standard for the sport and one even the Mets, who took them to six games in the National League Championship Series, say they want to emulate.

This is all a way of saying that even with just these two World Series titles, they have redefined what a dynasty is in baseball at this time.

People might not like it because of the money they spend. They don’t like the way an already dominant team went out and signed Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto last winter. But the way the Dodgers combine consistently excellent scouting and player development with shrewd free-agent signings, they absolutely fit what should be the modern definition of a dynasty. And they might be better next season than they were this season when Ohtani is pitching again.

In addition to all of that, they were tougher than everybody else this season, even with all their talent, overcoming so many injuries to their starting pitching you started to lose count. Despite how close the Yankees were to winning Game 1 and how close they were to winning Game 5, you had to come away from the 2024 World Series believing that one team in it was a cut above the rest.

“We keep clawing back,” Dave Roberts told Ken Rosenthal during a midgame interview on Wednesday night. “We still got innings.”

And Roberts, who gave a master class in managing from the time the Dodgers were down two games to one in their NLDS against the Padres, was right -- on a night when the Dodgers truly did make use of those innings when they counted most. It finally ended with a bit of poetic justice for them, when one of their starters, Walker Buehler, came out of the bullpen to get the last three outs of a Series the way Boston’s Chris Sale had done that against them in 2018 at Dodger Stadium, even burying Alex Verdugo -- a player the Dodgers traded away to acquire Mookie Betts, a member of that Red Sox team -- with a low-third swinging strike the way Sale had with Manny Machado.

Along the way, they had a top of the fifth at Yankee Stadium that will be remembered by Dodgers fans the way the bottom of the 10th of Game 6 of the ’86 Series is remembered by Mets fans, when all sorts of weird and magical things happened, including a roller to first this time hit by a guy named Mookie.

The Red Sox were trying to win the World Series that night in ’86. The Yankees were only trying to extend it. But the whole world saw what happened with the bases loaded, as Anthony Rizzo was waiting for Gerrit Cole to come cover first and Cole was waiting for Rizzo to run to first. Game 5 was 5-1 now, on its way to being 5-5 and everything had changed on the night when the Dodgers were changing their postseason narrative once and for all.

In the end, the Yankees never really recovered from Freddie Freeman hitting his walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the 10th of Game 1 the way the A’s never recovered from Kirk Gibson’s bottom-of-the-ninth homer of Game 1 in 1988. It was fitting, of course, that Freeman -- who’d homered in the first four games of this Series and six straight for him going back to when he was still a Brave in 2021 -- knocked in two more huge runs in the fifth on Wednesday night en route to the World Series MVP Award.

The Dodgers had come all the way to this moment from Seoul, South Korea, where their season had begun at the end of March. Even with the heartbreak they’ve had over the past decade, they have become the gold standard in baseball. They have become their sport’s star team, with three MVPs at the top of Roberts’ batting order -- Ohtani, Betts, Freeman -- and another MVP, Clayton Kershaw, sitting this Series out with an injury. And when they needed to get better at the Trade Deadline, they added a baller like Tommy Edman and Michael Kopech, a big arm from the White Sox.

The Dodgers were built to win this season. They are clearly built to last. In all the meaningful ways, the sport will continue to run through Los Angeles, the way the parade they’ve been waiting for will do the same thing on Friday, at long last. When it was over at Yankee Stadium, Buehler, who came all the way back to a moment like last night from his second Tommy John surgery, said this of his ninth inning:

“I feel like I’m supposed to be in those spots.”

Like his team. Back at the top of the world. Not going anywhere.