The 10 most clutch plays in playoff history
There’s simply no shortage of incredibly clutch moments in baseball postseason history, and many of them are so famous that you don’t even need to name the players involved to know what we’re referring to. Game 6, 1986? Boston fans will run speeding in the opposite direction. Game 6, 1993?
Ohtani joins exclusive club by winning NL MVP after NLCS MVP
The list of players to win a World Series and a regular-season Most Valuable Player Award in the same season is a small one. The list of World Series matchups to feature the MVP in each league facing off against one another is even smaller.
Freddie Freeman doing the worm is all you can imagine and more
Freddie Freeman is living proof that one man really can have it all. He's a back-to-back World Series champ with three rings to his name. He's a former Fall Classic and regular-season MVP. He has hit two of the most iconic postseason walk-off home runs in Dodger history, if not
World Series Game 7 most-watched MLB game globally in 34 years
Game Seven of the 2025 World Series presented by Capital One averaged 51.0 million viewers combined across the United States, Canada, and Japan making the thrilling 11-inning contest the most-watched MLB game in 34 years, since Game Seven of the 1991 World Series.
5 biggest game-turning plays in WS history
What is it with the Dodgers and being involved in the most pivotal plays in World Series history? It’s not that hard to rank every single play that’s ever happened in the Fall Classic by using Win Probability Added, which looks at the context of each moment in a game
Best Game 7 ever? There is a compelling case
Game 7 of the 2025 World Series was one of the wildest, and to some extent that’s expressed as easily as “a deciding World Series game went to extra innings,” which had happened just twice before in baseball history. When you’re talking about things like “was that the best Game
Why the 2025 World Series might have been the best ever
There have been other Game 7’s in the World Series, and there have been other World Series to remember and replay across baseball history. But there has never been a better Game 7 than we got in Toronto on Saturday night and into Sunday morning. And there has never been
Mookie's double play joins list of World Series-ending plays
Yoshinobu Yamamoto delivered. Alejandro Kirk bounced a ground ball up the middle. Mookie Betts snatched it, stepped on second base and fired to Freddie Freeman at first. Then, the celebration was on at Rogers Centre. This moment, when the Dodgers sealed the ninth World Series title in franchise history and
Yamamoto's cap, Betts' final out glove among WS artifacts headed to Cooperstown
The Dodgers departed Toronto and headed home to Los Angeles on Saturday night as back-to-back World Series champions. But not everything that was a part of their title triumph went west with them. Instead, some of the Dodgers’ history-making gear went to Cooperstown. Here is the list of things that
How free agency shaped Dodgers' back-to-back titles
The risks are obvious, but if done right, free agency is the quickest way for a club to infuse its roster with proven talent and push itself to the next level. Just look at the Dodgers, who have captured back-to-back World Series titles with major contributions from a slew of
Rojas and Pages' 9th inning for the ages keys Dodgers' incredible Game 7 win
TORONTO -- Those around the Dodgers know how valuable Miguel Rojas is to the team, even though some of his greatest moments take place behind the scenes. But the entire baseball world was watching as Rojas finally got his World Series moment, saving the Dodgers' season with the club down
Betts stands alone as only active MLB player with 4 rings
TORONTO -- While Mookie Betts didn't let it on from afar, when the final ball in play of the 2025 World Series bounced his way, he felt some nerves. The Dodgers had taken their first lead of the night on Will Smith's go-ahead homer in the top of the 11th.
Anatomy of 3 late homers that sunk Toronto's Game 7 chances
TORONTO -- Heading into Game 7 of the World Series on Saturday night, the Blue Jays felt good about where they were from a pitching standpoint. The belief was that, if Max Scherzer could just start them off on the right foot, there was more than enough firepower in the
Smith swats decisive HR while catching EVERY inning of Series
TORONTO -- Will Smith caught every inning of a Fall Classic that went 18 frames in Game 3 and 11 innings in Game 7. In total, the Dodgers backstop was behind the plate for 73 innings -- the most by any catcher in World Series history. But when he strode
Game 7 DELIVERS! Biggest takeaways from a thrilling Fall Classic clincher
TORONTO -- What a Game 7. What a World Series. The Dodgers are champs again. And this time, they won it in unbelievably thrilling fashion. A game-tying home run from Miguel Rojas in the ninth. A game-winning home run from Will Smith in the 11th. Here are four takeaways from
LA basking in 'golden era of Dodger baseball'
TORONTO -- The Dodgers never expected this to be easy. The prior 24 World Series champions could have told them: No matter the talent you have, no matter how favorable the situation, repeating as champion is a tall task. Knowing that, the Dodgers set out to do everything in their
Bichette's HR brought Blue Jays so close ... and now free agency awaits
TORONTO -- It felt like Bo Bichette had given us all a moment that might soften everything that came after it. His three-run home run early in Game 7 of the World Series felt like it would be remembered as one of the biggest swings in franchise history, and perhaps
Kershaw closes book on awesome career with 3rd championship
TORONTO -- His legendary career -- one of the great careers in baseball history -- had reached its storybook conclusion. The Dodgers had won a second consecutive World Series in extraordinary fashion. And the only person at Rogers Centre who didn’t seem to know was Clayton Kershaw. Mookie Betts had
Tireless Yamamoto named World Series MVP -- on zero days' rest!
TORONTO -- Yoshinobu Yamamoto didn’t go to his hotel room; he went to the trainer’s room. It was the aftermath of a Game 6 in which he had gone six innings for his second win of this World Series and his fourth of this postseason. Typically, it would be a
Blue Jays 'left it all out there' in memorable 2025 run
TORONTO -- No one wanted to go home. Not yet. Inside the Blue Jays’ clubhouse after Game 7, as the clocks crept further into the next morning, no one wanted to leave. They’d just lost the World Series, 5-4, in 11 innings to the Dodgers, a heartbreak that may never
What a way to end it! Wild stats from an unforgettable Game 7
TORONTO -- What a game. What a World Series. What a season. The 2,477th game of the 2025 season, including playoffs -- five more than any other year in history -- delivered a classic.
There have been 41 World Series Game 7s, and we ranked them all
A version of this story was first published in 2018 In a month full of white-knuckle drama, nothing tops Game 7 of the World Series -- a winner-take-all to end all winner-take-alls, 10 arduous months condensed into a final nine (or more) innings. It's given us some of the greatest
Dodgers rally for repeat, taking captivating Series on dramatic late HRs
TORONTO – The boys and girls in Dodger gear rolled around in the silver, blue and gold confetti on the outfield turf, playfully tossing that metallic material at each other, not far from the temporary stage that had been erected after midnight Sunday morning to celebrate Los Angeles’ traveling triumph.
Dodgers finally break the drought, successfully repeat as champs
With their thrilling 11-inning comeback win in Game 7 of the World Series on Saturday night, the Dodgers did something no team had accomplished in 25 years: they successfully defended their World Series title. By outlasting the Blue Jays in a Series that truly put the "classic" in Fall Classic,
October breakout star Clement sets new single-postseason hits record
In an epic World Series that came to a thrilling conclusion in a classic Game 7 on Saturday night at Rogers Centre, the Blue Jays lost a heartbreaker to the Dodgers after being within two outs of their first championship in 32 years. Despite the loss, Toronto made history with