A Lakers game at Crypto.com Arena, a U.S.C. game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a concert at the new Intuit Dome and a rivalry high school football matchup at SoFi Stadium added to the gridlock on L.A.’s freeways on Friday and Saturday. But that didn’t stop Dodgers fans from making their way to Chavez Ravine to see their team battle the Yankees in the first two games of the World Series — with the home team coming away with the win on both nights.

In a city not known for its alternative transportation methods, residents, who traveled from every corner of the county and beyond, found a new sense of unity as they walked alongside one another on the sidewalks of neighboring Elysian Park, sat side by side on Dodger buses leaving from Union Station and took advantage of free rides on the Metro.

“Like the true New Yorker I am, I took the Metro,” said Elliot Wechsler, 18, a student at Syracuse University, whose grandfather was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and instilled in his grandson a love of the Yankees after the Dodgers left for L.A.

L.A. is known as a vastly horizontal city built on freeways — a car culture with directional challenges that have been ridiculed on shows such as “Saturday Night Live” in the recurring skit “The Californians,” and written about in pop songs like the ’80s hit “Walking in L.A.” by Missing Persons.