Saturday, November 1, 2025

Copyrighted by Sarah Morris, 2025

 As late as one out in the ninth, the Los Angeles Dodgers looked like they would lose the World Series. But Miguel Rojas, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Will Smith said, “The job is NOT finished!!”

The Dodgers won the wildest Game 7 of the World Series. This cemented the Dodgers’ dynasty of the 2020s. It took eleven innings to beat the Toronto Blue Jays. The Dodgers prevailed over the Blue Jays 5-to-4 to win their ninth World Series title.

The Blue Jays needed to be congratulated for playing the greatest World Series. They played a great World Series, but their lack of experience in the World Series cost the Blue Jays.

Shohei Ohtani, who was pitching on the least rest in his major league career, didn’t have his customary great control. He gave his two scoreless innings. In the third inning, he didn’t have it and allowed a three-run homer to Bo Bichette.

Although the Dodgers were down and with their slumping offense, it looked hopeless for the Dodgers, Justin Wrobleski shut down the Blue Jays.

With a sore side, Tyler Glasnow came into the game and pitched 1.2 innings. While he allowed a run, he gave his team the necessary length.

Coming into the 2025 season, Emmet Sheehan was returning from Tommy John surgery. No one knew how much Sheehan could contribute to the 2025 season. From the beginning, Sheehan was a dawg, a vulnerable pitcher. In this postseason, he learned how to control the pressure of the postseason. He took down an inning.

Blake Snell didn’t have a good World Series, but on two days’ rest, Snell gave his team 1.1 scoreless innings. While he didn’t have his best stuff, he gave his best to the Dodgers.

The Dodgers used two sacrifice flies to score the first two Dodger runs. In the eighth, Max Muncy, who had a poor offensive postseason, blasted a solo homer.

In the ninth, with an out, Miguel Rojas, a veteran utility infielder, hit his first home run of the year against a right-handed pitcher.

The World Series MVP, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, came with two outs in the ninth with zero days’ rest. Andy Pages, who just came into the game, ran over Kiké Hernàndez to catch a game-saving fly ball. In the tenth, Rojas threw out the winning run at the plate to end the tenth.

Will Smith, an overlooked star on the Dodgers, blasted a two-out, game-winning solo home run.

What Yamamoto did in the World Series boggles the mind. He had three wins and was warming up in the bullpen during the eighteen-inning game. If Freddie Freeman hadn’t hit an eighteenth-inning home run, Yamamoto would have pitched the nineteenth inning. The Dodgers wouldn’t win the World Series without Yamamoto.