Overview
- Los Angeles edged Toronto 5-4 in 11 innings at Rogers Centre to clinch back-to-back titles in a seven-game series.
- Yoshinobu Yamamoto finished Game 7 by inducing a game-ending double play while Clayton Kershaw was warming in the bullpen.
- Kershaw learned the championship was sealed from the bullpen coach, capping a season he had said would be his last.
- His final mound appearance came in Game 3, when he threw eight pitches to retire Nathan Lukes with the bases loaded in the 12th.
- The Dodgers honored absent reliever Alex Vesia by stitching his number into their caps, and Kershaw celebrated on the field with his pregnant wife, Ellen, and their children.