The Yankees' errors in the fifth inning cost them their season

The New York Yankees were headed for a win in Game 5 on Wednesday night, looking to send the World Series back west with a two-game winning streak.

They were ahead by five runs and seemed to have taken the momentum in the series. They had their ace on the mound pitching just as well as he had all season. Hope grew in the Bronx.

Then it came to the fifth inning.

The Yankees made three big fielding errors to start the inning, opening the door for the Los Angeles Dodgers to come back and ultimately win the World Series. New York, leading 5-0, gave up five runs in an instantly infamous inning.

All five runs came with two outs. And all five runs were unearned for starter Gerrit Cole.

“We just took advantage of every mistake they made in that inning,” Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernández said after the game. “We put together some good batsmen. We put the ball in play. A lot of people say, ‘If you put the ball in play, things can happen.’ It happened to us in that inning and we scored five runs.”

Here's what happened.

After a single by Kiké Hernández – the Dodgers' first hit of the night – Tommy Edman hit a ball to center field that was dropped by Aaron Judge.

That put Edman in first place and Hernández in second place.