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The Yankees and Dodgers will meet for the first time since last year’s World Series, which Los Angeles won in five games as New York fell apart in the finale. Both of these teams lead their respective divisions, and appear en route to be featured in the playoffs again. The question of whether or not we’ll see a true rematch of the most common World Series in history is a different story, but until then, we have a few regular season showdowns scheduled, the first beginning on Friday at Dodger Stadium.
For our Reacts poll this week, we’re asking Yankees fans what they think the result of this series will be. Both possible sweeps are listed as options, in addition to standard series victories for each side.
Considering the offseason moves of both of these ballclubs, the one seen as the unstoppable juggernaut heading into the 2025 campaign was the Dodgers, a heavy World Series favorite almost everywhere you looked. However, as the saying goes, life (and injury) comes at you pretty fast, and if there is one team playing closer to a so-called juggernaut this year, that team appears to be the Yankees, whose lineup and pitching are both humming along at the moment.
Both offenses, in fact, are performing well, Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge continue to find ways to surprise us. The primary difference between these teams comes on the pitching side of things, with the Yankees flourishing (119 team ERA+) and the Dodgers doing something that currently resembles scraping by (98 team ERA+). Sure, one can argue that the Dodgers’ starting pitcher injuries are worse than the Yankees, but it’s not like New York hasn’t had its fair share of issues there, as they’re missing ace Gerrit Cole and 2024 AL Rookie of the Year Luis Gil. Still, missing Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snell, and Roki Sasaki would take its toll on any team — though that’s nothing new for the Dodgers, whose ultimate 2024 World Series rotation was far from what they initially planned, beyond Yoshinobu Yamamoto (currently an early NL Cy Young contender).
More than anything else, though, this series is about soaking in the privilege of seeing Judge and Ohtani on the field at the same time. Perhaps one of the main storylines of the 2025 season is how these two continue to show that there simply is no one in the same stratosphere as them. And the most absurd part of it all is that Judge still manages to distance himself at the plate from Ohtani, especially if we take away the baserunning part. That happens when the most powerful batter in the game also hits .398.
Vote in the poll below and we’ll check out the results in a few days.
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