As a player he went three times with the Dodgers, winning it all in 1981. He became the oldest manager to win a World Series in his third trip as a manager to the Fall Classic. “So just to see all this come together - he’s worked so hard and if anybody earned it… it’s him.” “He’s put in a lot of blood, sweat and tears and the game almost killed him when he had a stroke in 2017,” she said. At the end of the game, the coaching and training staff circled around Baker, jumping up and down, chanting “Dusty! Dusty! Dusty!” in the dugout before they joined the players on the field.īaker’s wife, Melissa, and son Darren Baker were on the field to celebrate his long-awaited title and they all shared a hug not long after the final out. When Yordan Alvarez connected on a go-ahead three-run homer in the sixth inning, cameras panned to a beaming Baker who raised both arms high above his head.
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