In one city, involved in the medical and economic devastation of the coronavirus epidemic, forced to ban its celebrated free-wheeling lifestyle and even looted the sacred summer ritual at Chavez Ravine, the Dodgers World Series win seemed like a vaccine – if only For the many pitfalls of.
Dodger fans took to the streets and showed Los Angeles hearty fireworks as the team won its first World Series since 1988.
On the Sunset Boulevard down the hill from Dodder Stadium, the drivers formed an exciting parade, honoring and cheering. Los Angeles police ordered people to leave the area and were trying to push hundreds of people off the street. Although the celebration was largely peaceful, some items were thrown at the police, and officers fired rubber bullets.
Dodger fan Jeff Gomez reacts with other fans as he looks ahead in the 6th inning of Game 6 of the World Series at the Dodgers Mocky Bates while watching a game in the parking lot of Club Bahia near Derger Stadium on October 27, 2020 in Lodger. Angeles, California.
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Fans set off fireworks amid a canyon of towers on the main streets of downtown LA, as people gathered in the city center by car, foot, bike and skateboard. Police were also trying to control the crowd there.
There was also a huge crowd at Whittier Boulevard, which was a joy to have had such a tough year. Los Angeles County Sheriff’s tributaries were trying to clear the streets. Hundreds of crowded streets in Pacoima, cars intersect at intersections.
Fans burn out a car as they celebrate after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated Tampa Bay Rays in a game of Los Angeles Dodgers 6 to win the World Series.
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Cesar Maldonado, 44, has lived in Echo Park since 1982.
He saw cars burning out, people chirping on the streetlights and remembering when he was 12 and the Dodgers finally won the World Series. That year she and her friends went to downtown Los Angeles to celebrate. It was very exciting.
“There was no covid,” he said. “There were a lot more people. It was so much fun. “
He couldn’t stop his excitement about the victory, as people holding his phone to show what was happening on FaceTime were screaming in the street, “Let’s go dodgers.”
“I can’t believe they won,” he said.
Only 4 years old when the Dodgers finally won the championship, Fernando Hernandez Jr. stood in a state of ecstasy outside his mother’s house in Bomley Heights, holding a half-empty bottle of champagne.
“Epidemic Champion, Baby!” He screamed at the honks of a car rushing past Soto Street. The Queen’s “We are Champions” belt from the loudspeaker.
Hernandez, the law firm’s office fee service coordinator, wondered at the doctors’ ability to get out of the season despite the epidemic disrupting the league.
He said, “There is no asterisk for this championship. “He was outraged.”
After the World Series victory on October 27, 2020 in Los Angeles, California, Dr. Jersey’s fans set off firecrackers behind a donut car at the intersection of Sunset and Figueroa.
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“This is the best I’ve experienced in a long time,” said Ismail Cervin, 21, standing in a corner of Hubbard Street and Belsen Avenue in East Los Angeles, smoking from the tires of a shop that enlivened his engine. Intersection. “In 2020, we needed this.”
Officials urged Dodder fans to avoid crowds and study social distance while celebrating. LA county health officials have blamed gatherings related to the Lakers and Dodgers championship season for spreading COVID-19 and preventing the county from opening more quickly.
Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer recently said, “Large crowds gather to watch sports indoors, people don’t wear their face inks, people boom a lot – it’s just not sensible,” Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said recently.
Los Angeles police also hope to avoid a repeat of the problems created in downtown after the Lakers’ victory. The celebrations were disrupted and more than 70 people were arrested. Police closed the main entrance to the Dos Jor Stadium as well as the Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Police Chief Michelle Moore urged people on Tuesday To celebrate a Dodgers Win at home.
“She is OK. The COVID-19 virus is real, ”he said. “There will be no tolerance for violence. Los Angeles has no place to sabotage people. ”
After 11 p.m., the LAPD urged people to go home.
“Most of the time, we see some reckless crowds intersecting in different parts of the city. We urge all Angelinos to stay home if possible. If you must stay out, be careful.” If you come across a large crowd, do not try to drive through it. The department said on Twitter.
There was no immediate news of the arrest. Some vandalism was seen in downtown Los Angeles and Echo Park.
As the final pitches were being delivered 1,400 miles away, fans parked in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium jumped out of their cars in anticipation of the fun.
They celebrated by hoisting flags, waving banners up and down and then with screams and tears, as the Dodgers won their first World Series in 32 years.
People from nearby cars hugged, others rushed to the crowd of fans – mostly where they were kicked, but others pulled down their facial ings to scream.
Eventually, in the storms, Los Angeles police cleared the intersection of Win Schill and Sunset. “The only people we want to see in blue are dodgers,” one woman sighed.
Police also smashed parties next to Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles, telling fans to disperse.
Every year, the oddscar marquee saves his pocket change on the opportunity to create the Jersey World Series. “Pennies, nickels, diamonds – anything.”
It all goes in a big plastic jar, only his team will be given a shell on a ticket to watch for the championship at Dodder Stadium. The last time the Dodgers won it all, Marquez was 12, a student at Euclid Avenue Elementary in Boyle Heights.
For the next three decades, he will see the end of each season in varying degrees of despair. This year, the Marquise fixed રકમ 500 in its jar. But due to the epidemic the series was moved to a neutral location, there were no home stadium tickets to buy. Instead, he placed his World Series funding on one condition.
A total of about 500 1,500 are in line to collect, he said, standing on the corner of Whittier Boulevard and Lorena Street, surrounded by screaming fans and interspersed on the bowels of an orange camera, which makes donuts at the intersection.
Health restrictions would have pushed some of the noisemakers out of the house, who would have celebrated in a bar in normal times, but Johnny Aguilar, a native of Boyle Heights, insisted: “Whether there is an epidemic or not, we will come here. We will go to this corner here. This is a family. ”
Felipe Herrera, who also grew up in Boyle Heights, described the neighborhood as “hard to die”.
“East LA Blue bleeds,” Herrera said. And after a season of trying, “trying, trying,” he added, “finally got it.”
Continuing the mask, Victor Argutta wore a special black jersey jersey that he recently bought on eBay for 40.
8 on the front and 24 on the back. The back was named Bryant. This year was marked by a loss for the 30-year-old. The first was Kobe Bryant, his favorite player growing up in Echo Park. Then his mother who had cancer but died of coronavirus in August Gust.
“She was battling cancer and doing well, but then she went to the hospital,” he said, fighting the tears. “I never got to see him again.”
When Bates hit his homer in the eighth inning to extend the Dodgers’ lead, Arguta left his home and headed for Win Skele Way. When he put the mask on his face, his mother, a Mexican immigrant who worked at the Beverly Hills courthouse and loved his adopted city, had a fresh tattoo.
“My mom would have loved to see this,” said the house painter. “She loved the Lakers and the Dodgers.”
