The newly-crowned world champion Los Angeles Dodgers returned home Thursday morning after beating the New York Yankees to win the 8th World Series title in the franchise’s history.
The Blue Crew made history by overcoming a 5-0 deficit to win Game 5 of the World Series 7-6 in New York Wednesday night.
The team’s plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport shortly after 8 a.m. in plenty of time to celebrate with fans during a parade scheduled for 11 a.m. on Friday.
Video showed Dodgers players disembarking with the World Series trophy from a plane painted with a New England Patriots color scheme and logo.
Information from fightaware.com showed a United Airlines flight believed to be carrying at least part of the team’s travel party was expected to arrive at 3:25 a.m. but was delayed several hours.
Friday’s parade is expected to last about 45 minutes and will span a route of a little more than one mile.
The Dodgers will be traveling on double-decker buses, the team announced.