The magical run is over, and the Los Angeles Dodgers have repeated as World Series champions.
The Toronto Blue Jays fell 5-4 in 11 innings, losing the winner-take-all Game 7.
The 41st Game 7 in World Series history became just the sixth to go to extra innings, and the Jays were on the wrong side of history.
This game had it all. Big hits, late-game heroics, even a bench-clearing incident after Blue Jays shortstop Andrés Gimenez was hit by a pitch.
Max Scherzer started for Toronto and provided solid pitching through 4 1/3 innings. He left to a standing ovation in what might have been the 41-year-old’s final game.
Bo Bichette provided some early offence, clobbering a three-run homer to the deepest part of the park off Shohei Ohtani, chasing the Dodgers superstar from the mound in the third inning.
L.A. got one back in the top of the fourth thanks to Teoscar Hernández’s sacrifice fly.
Both teams scored a run in their respective halves of the sixth inning.
Dodgers third baseman hit a solo blast off Jays rookie Trey Yesavage in the eighth, and second baseman Miguel Rojas hit one off closer Jeff Hoffman in the ninth to tie things up at 4-4.
The Jays had a chance to end things in the bottom of the ninth, but Ernie Clement flied out with the bases loaded.
Seranthony Dominguez worked himself into a bases loaded jam in the top of the 10th, but some nice defensive plays kept L.A. off the board.
Toronto went three up, three down in the bottom half.
Shane Bieber took the hill for the top half of the 11th, got two quick outs. But he hung a breaking ball to Dodgers catcher Will Smith, who put the ball over the wall in left field.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who had been held hitless through the game, led off the home half of the 11th with a double to the left field corner. He was quickly moved to third thanks to a perfect bunt from Isiah Kiner-Falefa. Addison Barger walked to give the Jays runners on the corners with just one out.
But Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who came into the game in the ninth inning after throwing 96 pitches Friday night in Game 6, got Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk to ground into a double play and seal back-to-back titles for the Dodgers.
Notes
- Yamamoto was named World Series MVP after pitching two gems against the Jays and earning the win in Game 7. He’s the first pitcher to win three games in a World Series since Randy Johnson did for Arizona in 2001.
- The Dodgers are the first team to win consecutive World Series since the New York Yankees won three straight from 1998 to 2000.
- Clement set a Major League record for hits in a single postseason. His double in the bottom of the eighth inning gave him 30 for the 2025 playoffs.
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