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The 10 most clutch plays in playoff history

Baseball's biggest October moments, ranked
November 14, 2025

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

Dodgers superstar becomes 7th player to win regular-season MVP and LCS or World Series MVP in same year
November 13, 2025

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

November 5, 2025

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

November 5, 2025

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

November 3, 2025

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

3 of the 12 most impactful plays ever came on Saturday night
November 2, 2025

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

November 2, 2025

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

November 2, 2025

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

@Spokes_Murphy
November 2, 2025

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

November 2, 2025

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

@sonjamchen
November 2, 2025

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

@sonjamchen
November 2, 2025

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

November 2, 2025

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

November 2, 2025

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

November 2, 2025

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'

@sonjamchen
November 2, 2025

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

November 2, 2025

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

November 2, 2025

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!

November 2, 2025

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

November 2, 2025

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

November 2, 2025

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

November 2, 2025

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

November 2, 2025

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

After 25 years without a repeat champ, L.A. goes back-to-back
@ColeJacobson32
November 2, 2025

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

November 2, 2025

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