{"id":349621,"date":"2025-11-02T05:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349621\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T05:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T05:07:13","slug":"l-a-dodgers-win-world-series-winning-consecutive-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/349621\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. Dodgers Win World Series, Winning Consecutive Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWill Smith homered in the 11th inning after Miguel Rojas connected for a tying drive in the ninth, and the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> beat the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> 5-4 in Game 7 Saturday night to become the first team in a quarter century to win consecutive World Series titles.<\/p>\n

\n\tLos Angeles<\/a> overcame 3-0 and 4-2 deficits and escaped a bases-loaded jam in the ninth to become the first repeat champion since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees, and the first from the National League since the 1975 and \u201976 Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n

\n\tSmith hit a 2-0 slider off Shane Bieber into the Blue Jays\u2019 bullpen, giving the Dodgers their first lead of the night.<\/p>\n

\n\tYoshinobu Yamamoto, who threw 96 pitches in the Dodgers\u2019 win on Friday, escaped a bases-loaded jam in the ninth and pitched 2 2\/3 innings for his third win of the Series.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe gave up a leadoff double in the 11th to Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who was sacrificed to third. Addison Barger walked and Alejandro Kirk grounded to shortstop Mookie Betts, who started a title-winning 6-4-3 double play.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith their ninth title and third in six years, the Dodgers made an argument for their 2020s teams to be considered a dynasty.\u00a0Dave Roberts, their manager since 2016, boosted the probability he will gain induction to the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

\n\tBo Bichette put Toronto ahead in the third with a three-run homer off two-way star Shohei Ohtani, who was pitching on three days\u2019 rest after taking the loss in Game 3.<\/p>\n

\n\tLos Angeles closed to 3-2 on sacrifice flies from Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez in the fourth off Max Scherzer and Tommy Edman in the sixth against Chris Bassitt.<\/p>\n

\n\tAndr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez restored Toronto\u2019s two-run lead with an RBI double in the sixth off Tyler Glasnow, who relieved after getting the final three outs on three pitches to save Game 6 on Friday.<\/p>\n

\n\tMax Muncy\u2019s eighth-inning homer off star rookie Trey Yesavage cut the Dodgers\u2019 deficit to one run, and Rojas, inserted into the lineup in Game 6 to provide some energy, homered on a full-count slider from Jeff Hoffman.<\/p>\n

\n\tToronto put two on with one out in the bottom half against Blake Snell, and Los Angeles turned to Yamamoto.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe hit Alejandro Kirk on a hand with a pitch, loading the bases and prompting the Dodgers to play the infield in and the outfield shallow. Daulton Varsho grounded to second, where Rojas stumbled but managed to throw home for a forceout as catcher Smith kept his foot on the plate.<\/p>\n

\n\tErnie Clement then flied out to Andy Pages, who made a jumping, backhand catch on the center-field warning track as he crashed into left fielder Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeranthony Dom\u00ednguez walked Mookie Betts with one out in the 10th and Muncy singled for his third hit. Hern\u00e1ndez walked, loading the bases. Pages grounded to shortstop, where Gim\u00e9nez threw home for a forceout. First baseman Guerrero then threw to pitcher Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez covering first, just beating Hern\u00e1ndez in a call upheld in a video review.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe epic night matched the Marlins\u2019 3-2 win over Cleveland in 1997 as the second-longest Series Game 7, behind only the Washington Senators\u2019 4-3 victory against the New York Giants in 1924.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Smith homered in the 11th inning after Miguel Rojas connected for a tying drive in the ninth,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":349622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2442,2961,224,2502,5337,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-349621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-dodgers","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115478373638585246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}