Overview
- The 5–4 Game 7 comeback featured Miguel Rojas’s ninth-inning homer and Will Smith’s winner in the 11th, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s short-rest relief earned Series MVP.
- MLB will install the Automated Balls-and-Strikes system in every ballpark next season, with two team challenges per game and an additional challenge in each extra inning.
- The Dodgers’ roughly $509.5 million in payroll and projected luxury-tax spending intensified competitive-balance concerns as bargaining approaches before the Dec. 2, 2026 CBA expiration.
- Los Angeles staged downtown and stadium celebrations that honored newly retired Clayton Kershaw, drew massive crowds, and included seven detentions reported by local media.
- Global interest swelled, with Japanese broadcasts averaging about 10.7 million viewers for Games 1 and 2, and Fox reporting 25.98 million U.S. viewers for Game 7, the most since 2017.