2025 WORLD SERIES

Game 1

The Toronto Blue Jays stunned the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers with an emphatic 11–4 victory in Game 1 of the 2025 World Series at a roaring Rogers Centre. Trailing 2–0 early, the Jays rallied behind Daulton Varsho's game-tying homer in the fourth and then erupted for a historic nine-run sixth inning. The inning's exclamation point came from Addison Barger, whose pinch-hit grand slam marked the first of its kind in World Series history. Toronto chased Dodgers ace Blake Snell after loading the bases with no outs in the sixth, then feasted on L.A.'s bullpen. Alejandro Kirk added a two-run homer to cap the onslaught. Rookie Trey Yesavage, making just his seventh MLB start, held the Dodgers to two runs over four innings, setting the stage for the offensive explosion. With the win, the Jays flipped the script on a Dodgers team that had steamrolled through the postseason, seizing early momentum in the Fall Classic.

Game 2

Game 2 of the 2025 World Series unfolded as a vintage pitching showcase, with Yoshinobu Yamamoto etching his name into postseason lore. On the same field where Joe Carter’s 1993 walk-off once electrified Canada, Yamamoto delivered a complete-game masterpiece, allowing just one run while striking out eight. “He was painting corners like it was Fenway in the ’40s,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said afterward. The turning point came in the seventh, when Will Smith and Max Muncy launched back-to-back solo homers into the left-field seats, transforming a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 lead. The Dodgers tacked on three more in the ninth, sealing a 5-1 victory and evening the Series. It marked the first World Series complete game by a Dodgers pitcher since Fernando Valenzuela in 1981.

Game 3

A six-hour, 39-minute odyssey at Dodger Stadium ended with Freddie Freeman launching a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 18th inning, lifting the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6–5 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in a game that instantly etched itself into World Series lore. Shohei Ohtani delivered a performance for the ages, going 4-for-4 with two home runs, two doubles, and five walks—reaching base in all nine plate appearances and driving in three runs. The Dodgers and Blue Jays combined to use 18 pitchers, with both bullpens bending but refusing to break across nine scoreless extra innings. Defensive brilliance was on full display, including a diving stop by Bo Bichette in the 12th and a game-saving catch by Mookie Betts in the 15th. The turning point came in the 17th when a misplayed bunt allowed the tying run to score, setting the stage for Freeman’s heroics an inning later. "That was baseball at its most exhausting—and most beautiful," Freeman said afterward. "You dream of moments like this, but you never imagine they’ll last until 2 a.m."

Game 4

Toronto responded with poise and power, rebounding from their 18-inning heartbreak with a 6-2 win at Dodger Stadium to even the series. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. broke a 2-2 tie in the fifth with a two-run blast off Shohei Ohtani—his seventh of the postseason, setting a new Blue Jays record and shifting momentum back to the visitors. Shane Bieber delivered five steady innings before the bullpen took over, escaping jams in the sixth and seventh with clutch outs from Erik Swanson and Tim Mayza. Toronto added insurance in the eighth and ninth, and the victory marked their first World Series road win since 1993, reaffirming their resilience in the face of adversity.

Game 5

Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. launched back-to-back home runs on the first and third pitches of the game—marking the first time in World Series history a contest began with consecutive blasts. Rookie Trey Yesavage, making just his eighth career start, struck out 12 Dodgers without issuing a walk, setting a new rookie record and joining Sandy Koufax as the only pitchers with 10+ strikeouts in the first five innings of a Fall Classic game. The Blue Jays added insurance in the fourth and seventh innings, while Yesavage's splitter left Shohei Ohtani flailing to one knee in a viral strikeout moment. Toronto's 6-1 win gave them a 3-2 series lead and sent them home to Rogers Centre one victory away from their first championship since 1993.

Game 6

Yoshinobu Yamamoto delivered six strong innings and Mookie Betts broke out of his slump with a two-run single as the Dodgers edged the Blue Jays 3-1 in Game 6 at Rogers Centre. George Springer gave Toronto an early lead with an RBI single in the third, but Betts responded in the bottom half with a bases-loaded liner to center, sparking a three-run rally that included a walk to Freddie Freeman. Enrique Hernández preserved the lead with a slick double play, and rookie relievers Justin Wrobleski and Roki Sasaki held the line before Tyler Glasnow escaped a ninth-inning jam to seal the win and even the series.

Game 7

Toronto took early control when Bo Bichette, playing through a knee injury, launched a three-run homer off Shohei Ohtani in the third inning. The Dodgers chipped away with sacrifice flies in the fourth and sixth, but Andrés Giménez extended the Jays' lead to 4–2 with an RBI double in the bottom of the sixth. Max Muncy cut the deficit to 4–3 with a solo homer in the eighth, setting the stage for a stunning ninth-inning equalizer: Miguel Rojas, a part-time infielder, crushed a game-tying solo shot off Jeff Hoffman.

In the bottom of the ninth, Toronto loaded the bases, but Andy Pages made a clutch catch in deep left-center to preserve the tie. After escaping a jam in the 10th, Yamamoto, pitching on zero days' rest, held firm in the bottom half. Then in the 11th, Will Smith blasted a go-ahead solo homer off Shane Bieber, marking the first extra-inning home run in a winner-take-all World Series game. Toronto threatened again in the bottom of the 11th, putting runners on the corners with one out, but Mookie Betts turned a game-ending double play to seal the Dodgers’ second straight championship.