Game 7 of the 2025 World Series was great all around, filled with twists and turns in a game that decided the champion.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays pulled out all the stops, using starters on little rest, making moves in the lineup and on the field.
Six other games were played, but none of what happened in those games mattered anymore — it was all about November 1st and who played better on the day.
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According to ESPN, Game 7 was the best baseball game of all time.
“None of the 51 million people who watched Game 7 of the World Series will ever forget it as long as they live. And objectively, we’ve never seen a championship hang in the balance so many times in a single night,” ESPN’s Paul Hembekides wrote.
“Using championship win probability added (cWPA), nine plays swung the World Series by at least 15% — two more than the previous record of seven during Game 7 in 1924.
“By that measure, we witnessed three of the 12 most pivotal plays in baseball history (Alejandro Kirk’s double play to end the game, Will Smith’s game-winning home run, Miguel Rojas’ tying home run). You could watch every game played for the next 100 years and never see another one like it.”
World Series Game 7 Recap
The scoring was opened up by a three-run shot by Bo Bichette, who hit a bomb off Shohei Ohtani, stepping on the mound after three days’ rest.
It was a crushing blow in the third inning, but in the fourth and sixth innings, the Dodgers managed to score a run each on sacrifice flies, leaving runs on the table, which seemed costly at the time.
After cutting the lead to 3-2 at the top of the sixth, Andres Gimenez responded by hitting an RBI double off Tyler Glasnow, another back-breaking run to restore the two-run lead.
Glasnow put on his own hero cape, pitching in Game 7 — he had just closed out Game 6.
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Max Muncy then hit an eighth-inning home run off upcoming pitcher Trey Yesavage, giving the Dodgers life by cutting the lead to one run again with one out on the board.
Blake Snell came in during the bottom of the eighth inning with one out and kept a zero on the board.
To start the ninth, Enrique Hernandez struck out, a devastating out considering how clutch he has been throughout his postseason career.
Then Miguel Rojas stepped up to the plate, and he worked a full count, fouling off pitches and then, on the seventh pitch, he got a slider from closer Trevor Hoffman which hung a bit, though Rojas leaned in and got good contact on it, enough for a line drive that somehow cleared the wall, tying the game at 4-4.
The hard work just started for the Dodgers. Blake Snell was still in the game, getting the first out, though he proceeded to put on two base runners.
Manager Dave Roberts then went to Yoshinbou Yamamoto, who had started Game 6 and went six innings, on no rest.
Yamamoto looked out of it at first, hitting Alejandro Kirk to load the bases. He forced a grounder to Miguel Rojas, the hero who had just saved the Dodgers, who made an off-balance throw home that was somehow accurate and got there in time for catcher Will Smith to put his foot on the plate.
Yamamoto then got a flyball with the next batter, though it was drama-filled as Andy Pages made a jumping catch after crashing into Kike Hernandez.
The Dodgers had gotten the game to extra innings, where the Dodgers did not score until the 11th inning when Will Smith hit a home run.
Yamamoto stayed in the game through the 10th and 11th, getting the final outs of the game and cementing himself in World Series history.
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