Overview
- The Dodgers defeated the Blue Jays in a winner-take-all Game 7 at Rogers Centre to claim a second consecutive championship.
- Shohei Ohtani started on three days’ rest, a choice shaped by MLB’s two‑way player rule that makes starting the cleanest way to keep his bat in the lineup.
- Toronto turned to Max Scherzer for the start with rookie Trey Yesavage among the key bullpen options as both teams approached the finale with an all‑hands plan.
- The series swung a night earlier when a ball wedged under the outfield padding was ruled a ground‑rule double and Enrique Hernandez and Miguel Rojas ended Game 6 with a rare elimination-avoiding double play.
- With the victory, Los Angeles became the first team to win back-to-back World Series since the late‑1990s Yankees, preventing Toronto from securing its first title since 1993.