Dodgers capture back-to-back World Series championships, first since 2000

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TORONTO (KTTV) - The Los Angeles Dodgers are once again World Series champions.

The Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 in extra innings in Game 7, becoming the first team since 2000 to win consecutive World Series titles. The New York Yankees won three championships in a row from 1998 to 2000.

Saturday’s historic win marks the Boys in Blue’s ninth World Series title, their third since 2020. 

VIDEOS: Dodgers, Blue Jays benches clear in World Series Game 7

EXTRA INNINGS

The 2025 World Series has officially become an all-time classic.

The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays have not only extended this series to a winner-take-all Game 7, but that game needed extra innings to find a winner. The Boys in Blue forced the game to go extras after Miguel Rojas' ninth-inning solo home run to tie the game at 4-4.

Will Smith blasted a go-ahead solo home run to put the Dodgers ahead 5-4 in the 11th inning. 

Things got a little hairy for Dodger fans after Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a leadoff double to begin the bottom of the 11th inning. Los Angeles got the first out after Isaiah Kiner-Falefa bunted Guerrero to third. Dodgers' Yoshinobu Yamamoto, throwing in Game 7 on zero days of rest after pitching on Friday, walked Addison Barger to put the winning run at first, in addition to Guerrero waiting at third.

Blue Jays' Alejandro Kirk then grounded into a double play to end the game and give the Dodgers their ninth World Series championship.

Yamamoto was named World Series MVP after delivering wins in Games 2, 6 and 7.

Prior to the Game 7 classic, series was without drama. Game 3 took 18 innings to complete – the longest since 2018 – and Game 7 had a bench-clearing shouting match between players from both teams.

SERIES AT A GLANCE

• Game 1: Blue Jays 11, Dodgers 4
• Game 2: Dodgers 5, Blue Jays 1
• Game 3: Dodgers 6, Blue Jays 5, Final/18th.
• Game 4: Blue Jays 6, Dodgers 2
• Game 5: Blue Jays 6, Dodgers 1
• Game 6: Dodgers 3, Blue Jays 1
• Game 7: Dodgers 5, Blue Jays 4. Final/11th.

HOW BOTH TEAMS GOT HERE

The Dodgers punched their ticket to the Fall Classic after sweeping the Brewers in the NLCS in four games. Prior to that, the Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 3 games to 1, in the best-of-5 division series.

Before the NLDS win, Los Angeles pulled off a 2-game minisweep of the Cincinnati Reds in the wild card series. The Dodgers secured a spot in the postseason after winning the NL West division.

The Blue Jays made their first trip to the World Series since 1993 after holding off the Mariners in a winner-take-all Game 7 on Monday, October 20. Prior to that, the Jays beat the New York Yankees in the ALDS in four games.

Toronto secured a first-round bye and homefield advantage in the World Series after finishing the regular season with a 94-68 record.