The Dodgers did what the Yankees used to — turn baseball into a blockbuster. Their 5–4, 11-inning Game 7 win over the Blue Jays delivered LA’s second straight title. The Dodgers were actually down in the series at one point, clawing their way back to eventually forced a Game 7. And that’s just one of the things that became the dramatic coda for the Dodgers this postseason.
And while the entire postseason was filled with nail-biting plays and extra innings, this game amped up the drama: a benches-clearing stare-down, a historic ninth-inning homer, and an extra-inning finish scripted for streaming. Toronto led early after Bo Bichette’s three-run shot in the third, but L.A. chipped away before Miguel Rojas tied it in the ninth — the first time anyone has homered that late in a Game 7.
When Will Smith (no, not that one) crushed a big home run in the 11th, the first extra-inning homer ever in a winner-take-all Game 7. Dodger Stadium turned into a movie set finale. Fireworks, blue confetti and another championship.
But the game was filled with show-stopping plays and records and hard working athletes. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, running on zero days’ rest, threw nearly three innings of shutout relief to close it out, earning the World Series MVP. Toronto’s Ernie Clement still etched his name into baseball history with his record 30th postseason hit though the achievement landed with eventual heartbreak, his record drowned out by the other team’s victorious celebrations.
And then there was Clayton Kershaw. The future Hall of Famer wasn’t even on the game roster for that night, but he was watching from the tunnel as the final out was recorded. “I didn’t even realize it was over until I saw the confetti,” he said later. “If this is it, I couldn’t have asked for a better ending.”
WON IT ALL. #WORLDSERIES pic.twitter.com/rYb9LEi5Pn
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) November 2, 2025
For a franchise built on spectacle, the Dodgers are now officially Hollywood’s team again — a big-budget roster with the receipts to prove it. It’s their second straight title, third in six years, and their clearest claim to baseball’s throne since the Yankees’ three-peat from 1998–2000.
The Blue Jays came within two outs of ending a 32-year drought. But in this Game 7 of part sports epic, part fever dream, it was the Dodgers who reminded everyone that lately drama seems to look best in Dodger blue.
