A World Series For The Ages
Rogers Centre, home of the Toronto Blue Jays, played host of Game 7 in the 2025 World Series.
This World Series reminded me of an instance where a Vin Scully call would’ve woven in perfectly into one of these games. Bob Gibson’s walk-off home run in the 1988 World Series when Scully said, “in a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened,” could’ve rang true at some point during the 2025 Fall Classic.
Anxiousness
There were so many nail-biting moments in front of anxious fans in both cities that only became more nervous as the games went on.
How about an underdog Blue Jays team upsetting the favored Dodgers in a blowout Game 1. Then a complete-game masterpiece by Yoshinobu Yamamoto. That was followed up by another Dodgers victory in an 18-inning Game 3 that didn’t end until after 2 A.M. ET. Toronto came back and won two straight in games 4 and 5. Game six featured the Dodgers making it go a seventh.
Game 7
Game 7 was incredible. The amount of game-changing moments, or teams down to their last out and somehow kept things alive. It was the ultimate team game, from either side. It started with a Bo Bichette 3-run home run in the 3rd inning. That boom gave the Blue Jays early confidence at home.
Los Angeles slowly crept back into the game. It was down by two in the 8th inning and Max Muncy delivered a solo blast which made it a one-run ballgame. In the 9th, Dodgers down by one to their final couple outs and Miguel Rojas came up clutch with another solo home run and tied things up going into the bottom of the 9th. And was it ever quite the bottom half of the ninth inning.
Oh So Close
The Dodgers had bases loaded with one out. A groundball to second sent Isaiah Kiner-Falefa towards home, but he got thrown out by a hair and Dodgers catcher Will Smith held his foot on the plate for the force. The argument now is if Kiner-Falefa should’ve dove head first instead of in a figure four slide. So now there’s two outs with the bases loaded. Here comes Ernie Clement. The youngster golfs it to left-center field, and when you first look at the FOX telecast, you probably would think it’s going to land somewhere in play and the Blue Jays would’ve won their first World Series since going back-to-back in 1992 and 1993. However, the newly entered center fielder Andy Pages jumps over left fielder Kike Hernandez and send the game to extra innings.
Will Smith hit the go-ahead home run for the Dodgers in the 11th inning, and Yamamoto came in to pitch for the win after throwing nearly 100 pitches the day before. It was the luck of the Dodgers that night to win consecutive World Series.