[Serious] Next Day Thread ⚾ Dodgers 5 @ Blue Jays 4 – Los Angeles repeats as World Champions, and win a thrilling Game 7 on Will Smith’s HR in the 11th

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1. All time great World Series and performance by Yoshi. Dodgers have to be the favorite to 3-peat.

2. The Dodgers never looked scared even down 3-0. They we’re a team in the full sense of it all. Sacrificing for victory. They deserved the title.

   Blue Jays we’re up 3-2 going home, couldn’t get the job done. The Dodgers took it from them.

3. I never want to be that stressed again for the rest of the calendar year please and thank you. 

4. Obviously happy my team won, but all in all that was a great series capped off by an amazing game 7.

5. Completely winnable game and series. Brutal.

   Although if you asked me in April what the result of the season would be, it would not have been lose in 7 in extra innings to the mutant superteam defending champions. 

6. Dodgers made all the plays in the clutch moments that they needed to. We blew all the dozens of opportunities we had to seal it today and yesterday. That’s the difference between a championship team and us.

7. Fans – including me – criticized this Dodgers team for all the wasteful pop outs resulting from the batters wanting to play hero longball. And that is what got them the comeback WS win.

   Still in disbelief. Don’t fully understand how it all lead to them winning. That dead ball in G6. The collision catch yesterday. The bullpen shutting it down in G4.5. Wow.

8. I know this might be controversial, but I *feel* like the John Schneider’s lack of experience playing MLB showed, especially when compared to someone as experienced as Dave Roberts. Roberts know all the tricks and how to come back and attack.

   I’m not belittling Schneider’s work BTW.

   *ends controversial opinion*

9. What an unbelievable game and series. I’m so happy this morning that I got to witness it. 

10. I think an underrated aspect of how Schneider and Roberts managed the WS is the debate of whether it’s better to leave a guy in for too long or pull him too early. And I think in this case pulling guys too early may have been worse because while IKF is a better runner than a hobbled Bichette etc. in both WS games that went to extras the Blue Jays pulling so many guys for defensive subs left their offense with a large amount of teeth pulled.

    Meanwhile the Dodgers managed to claw back from clearly leaving Shohei in for too long.

11. I genuinely think we could have easily won this game had Roberts not left Ohtani in the 3rd. Ohtani barely got out the 2nd unscathed, he shouldn’t have been out there.

    On the flip side, that deficit probably lit the fire under our guys that they needed to tack on those HRs and we may have missed the gem Yama threw to save the game.

12. I was ready to turn off the match after they were down 3-1 then 4-2. Im glad i didnt. Wild game

13. Commiserations to all the Blue Jays players (not you George Springer) for making such a memorable World Series and Game 7.

14. I don’t want any toxic fans calling for an individual player out. It was a team choke. So many opportunities to add on during the game and they couldn’t do it. 

15. Today feels like the jet lag you get after a bereavement trip across an ocean.

16. Life sucks. That is all.

17. I can’t stop thinking about how bad the Jays baserunning was all series. Especially compared to how good they were on defense, another “fundamental” aspect of the game.

18. If I am a Blue Jays fan, the play that is driving me the most crazy is the grounder in 9th with the force out at home. Forget the terrible lead off, and the terrible secondary lead if he just runs through the plate he is safe! You do not slide there! Did the 3rd base coach remind him of this, that is his job.

19. The Blue Jays are a hell of a team!!! Besides Roberts’ decisions and Yamamoto going super saiyan, what impressed me the most was how well the less celebrated players on the Dodgers’ lineup stepped up with huge hits, home runs, and defensive plays!

20. Absolutely crazy series. That dead ball in Game 6. The broken bat to give off that double play. All the clutch moments. The extra innings. Hell yeah.

21. I’d argue the Jays were the better hitting and defensive team and were pretty on par pitching wise over the entire course of the series. Although the Dodgers clearly had the best picher in Yamamoto. But the main thing they were clearly worse was baserunning. So many mistakes there.

22. The worst part is everywhere is playing christmas music now

23. First season watching baseball and what a way to end it, started midway after Raffy got traded, enjoyed the ride afterwards albeit a bitter ending. Learned a lot in my 1st year about other teams and their booths, Dodgers and Jays booth stood out as the best for me in the NL (granted I don’t watch much Padres and Mets) and AL respectively

    Cheers for 2025 and looking forward to 2026

24. I still can’t believe the dodgers won that game. You play that 9th inning out 99 more times the jays win all 99

25. I don’t think any predictions/bets had miggy Rojas on it

26. I don’t know if I’ve ever watched a more entertaining series than that or if I ever will again. Both teams put up the gnarliest fight to take it all to such lengths and the fans were treated to an amazing spectacle. Instant classic series.

27. I could criticize all of the pitching decisions like not leaving Varland in for another inning, Bassitt in the 6th instead of 8th, leaving Yesavage in for the start of the 8th but what killed the Jays in Game 6 & 7 was their inability to score with RISP. The team that went .292 with RISP in the season went ~~3-17~~ 1-9 to end this game. Masterful pitching by the Dodgers aside, Jays baserunning killed what leaving RISP didn’t.

    Performance of a lifetime for Yamamoto in this World Series. As a baseball fan, some of the best pitching I’ve ever seen across a series. Congrats to the Dodgers for the series win.

    My thoughts are with Alex Vesia and his wife in this difficult time for them both.

28. Gimme a week or two to cry, depression eat, and reset my sleep schedule, and I’ll be ready to go again.

    End results aside, that was fucking *fun*.

29. Honestly, I *do* think the Jays were the better team throughout the series, but the top of the Dodgers pitching staff was better and, much more importantly… the Jays were mis-managed as hell. I know it’s easy to blame the manager on every loss but I don’t know how a team has not one, but *two* catastrophic base-running blunders with those strikeouts, both of which might have cost a necessary run. Schneider wore his bench too thin too early in game 4 and *may* have pushed the wrong bullpen buttons in game 7 as well — although if your closer gives up a home run to a guy who’s had <60 career homers in 12 years then it’s someone else’s fault lol. I think the Jays have a great roster, but I don’t think Schneider is piloting them well; unfortunately winning a pennant probably means he’s gonna be around for a while.

30. The Dodgers were extremly beatable this series. The Dodgers have won back to back titles with both teams having clear weaknesses. In 2024 the starting pitching was a clear weakness, but their bullpen was lights out with good offense and in 2025 the bullpen and offense were clear weaknesses, with great starting pitching (although that wasnt the case in the world series aside from Yamamoto).

    They were extremely beatable especially this year with how anemic their offense was for the most part yet they still won.

31. Man I had a feeling it was over when the dodgers tied it up. Thought I was prepared for the loss but the post game interviews just hurt my soul.

    The team was so much fun to watch this season. I hope when the dust settles they can keep the fun alive next year.

32. That Miggy Ro stumble and throw home to eke out IKF who was taking a much shorter lead than he should have was the perfect microcosm of this World Series. Dodger’s made mistake after mistake that required amazing plays to recover from and despite recovering, the Blue Jays’ could have still won the series if they themselves had been a bit more perfect.

33. I know it was a death by a thousand cuts more than anything but man… I just cannot stop thinking about IKF in the ninth.

    If has literally **any lead off of third at all**, or if he does literally **anything other than slide feet first into home** then we’re WS champs right now.

    And then that stupid fucking catch by Pages immediately after that is just icing on the cake.

    Shit felt ordained by the heavens that we were losing the game at that point.

34. Such a gut wrenching loss 🙁

35. It still hasn’t hit that Miguel Rojas is a bonafide World Series legend now. Miguel Rojas is a bonafide Dodger legend.

    I was just hoping he would get on base for Ohtani and instead he hit an absolute bomb to save the Dodgers season. Still doesn’t feel real.

    The kid who saved Kershaw’s no hitter will never have to pay for a beer again in LA.

    I fucking love baseball.

36. Dodgers basically crawled across the finish line with a broken leg for this championship. They seemly were outmatched everywhere except Yamamoto pitching. Blue Jays definitely “lost” this series through their own base running mistakes more than Dodgers “won”.

37. I feel bad for the Jays players and fans for that game 7 loss. Just brutal that really their base-running errors the last two games prevented them from winning the series and the Dodgers simply took advantage of those errors.

    This series also reminds me that sometimes it’s just better to be lucky than to be outright just good. Jays were better in hitting and pitching statistically, but the Dodgers players showed up in moments that really mattered. Analytics cannot predict those moments.