Los Angeles Dodgers Defeat Toronto Blue Jays to Win World Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers have received the World Series, notching back-to-back championships after a fierce battle against the Toronto Blue Jays that got here down to a Game 7 that went 11 innings on Saturday evening in Toronto.

The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays 5-4 at Toronto’s Rogers Centre, making them the first Major League Baseball team to win back-to-back championships since the New York Yankees received three in a row from 1998-2000. The Blue Jays had been angling for his or her first World Series victory since 1993, after they also logged consecutive win as the reigning champs from 1992.

Fox Sports anchor Alex Rodriguez, a former Yankee star, said flatly, “This is the greatest World Series game I’ve ever witnessed,” during Fox’s post-game present.

The network couldn’t have scripted a game that led to an even bigger end. Toronto led 4-3 going into the ninth inning. Toronto followers had been on their toes, getting ready to exult in the team’s first Series win in 32 years. At the top of the ninth, Dodgers shortstop Miguel Rojas powered in the tying residence run. At the top of the eleventh, catcher Will Smith delivered the decisive profitable run.

The victory got here after a tough fought seesaw of a Fall Classic that proved the Dodgers and Blue Jays had been evenly matched in the fight for Commissioner’s Trophy. The games have been a big showcase for Dodgers stars such as Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts and so they have delivered big crowds for Fox, although not as big as last yr’s collection between the Dodgers and New York Yankees. But it was pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto who received the Series’ MVP trophy for his unbelievable arm and the steely resolve he confirmed in the tension-packed final minutes.

The Blue Jays prevailed in Game 1 at residence with an 11-4 decisive win. The Dodgers got here again to win Game 2 in Toronto (5-1) and Game 3 (6-5) at residence. Game 3 turned out to be an epic 18-inning battle. Then the Blue Jays then rallied to win Game 4 (6-2) and Game 5 (6-1) in Los Angeles. The Dodgers then topped the Blue Jays in Game 6 (3-1).

Through the first 5 games, the World Series has averaged 12.5 million viewers for Fox linear network, Fox Sports streaming and Fox Deportes. Game 5, held on on Halloween evening, rose to 14.6 million viewers, with a peak viewers of 16 million in the final quarter-hour.

Last yr’s contest between the Dodgers and Yankees, however, had more heft in the nation’s largest TV market even though that collection only went 5 games. Through Game 5 in 2024, the common viewership was 15.8 million. This yr’s five-game common is the second-highest since 2018, per Fox Sports.

The draw of a Game 7 — aka “the two best words in sports” — was also a lure for Hollywood entrepreneurs with titles that want to attain trying to attain broad audiences. Universal’s “Wicked: For Good” ran high profile teaser spots during the game, as did Disney’s “Zootopia 2” and Netflix’s “Stranger Things 5.”

The 2025 World Series delivered plenty of standout moments for Dodgers superstars. Ohtani pitched the first two and a half innings of Game 7 and also delivered big residence runs in the clutch in earlier games. Freeman ended the wild 18-inning game with a walk-off residence run that only made him more beloved to Dodger followers. Betts offered the profitable runs in Game 6. And outfielder Kiké Hernández had a formidable, game-saving double play in Game 6.

Before the Yankees’ late Nineties run, the Blue Jays had been the last team to log consecutive wins in 1992 and 1993.

The Dodgers plan to maintain a victory parade in Los Angeles on Monday.