{"id":667406,"date":"2026-04-07T01:35:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T01:35:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T01:35:37","slug":"dodgers-return-to-toronto-with-world-series-memories-put-away-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/667406\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers return to Toronto with World Series memories put away \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 One hundred and fifty-five days after an epic World Series concluded with the Dodgers winning Games 6<\/a> and 7 in dramatic fashion<\/a>, the Dodgers are back at Rogers Centre this week.<\/p>\n

The memories must be thick as poutine gravy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think I had any,\u201d pitcher Tyler Glasnow said when asked what World Series memories came to mind when he returned Monday. \u201cIt was just \u2018April. Another series.\u2019 I think that\u2019s the way most guys are. It\u2019s just such a long season. I think that\u2019s more for fans and stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us, you\u2019re just in work mode. I know that\u2019s a boring answer. It\u2019s such a long season.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catcher Will Smith hit the game-winning home run in extra innings of Game 7<\/a>, the first of its kind in World Series history. Surely returning to the scene of that historic moment stirred something in him Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot really,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIt\u2019s a new day. That already happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

He might have thought about the World Series \u201cwalking by the cages where we celebrated,\u201d he said when prompted \u2013 making it sound more like a question than an emotional statement.<\/p>\n

When pressed, Glasnow said sitting at his locker reminded him of the feeling following Game 6, which he closed out on the mound.<\/p>\n

Pitcher Ben Casparius found himself heading to the same locker he was assigned last fall when the Dodgers arrived Monday \u2013 even though he had been assigned a different locker (the one Clayton Kershaw occupied for his final days as a player).<\/p>\n

Shortstop Mookie Betts did admit to feeling nostalgic walking back into Rogers Centre on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I come back here, I just think about when I was in Boston, when I was younger,\u201d Betts said. \u201cI remember walking in and watching movies with Big Papi (David Ortiz) and Hanley (Ramirez) and those guys before all this changed (the locker rooms have been renovated in recent years). And so those are the kind of memories that kind of come back.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what about the epic World Series you played here just five months ago?<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course there\u2019s that, but that\u2019s not the first thing,\u201d Betts said. \u201cThe first thing is being a 21-, 22-year-old-kid watching movies with Hanley and Big Papi and Pablo (Sandoval) and those guys. The fries here (made by the cook in the visiting clubhouse). Those are the memories that come back.\u201d<\/p>\n

No one left more of a mark on the 2025 World Series than Yoshinobu Yamamoto. He became only the 14th player in baseball history to win three games in a single World Series, pitched in both Games 6 and 7 in Toronto and was named the World Series MVP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a little bit nostalgic or sentimental because we haven\u2019t been back since that day,\u201d he said through his interpreter. \u201cBut now I\u2019m trying to focus on tomorrow\u2019s outing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blake Treinen couldn\u2019t help but make the comparison between the stakes last October (spilling over into November) and this early April series. He said he was laughing on the way to the stadium Monday, saying, \u201cThis is a lot less stressful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not any one memory. It\u2019s just everything that happened here,\u201d he said of the memories that stood out from last year. \u201cIt\u2019s like if you played that World Series out a hundred times, the Blue Jays would probably win 99 times. Everything just worked out for us. All the things just went right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 One hundred and fifty-five days after an epic World Series concluded with the Dodgers winning Games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":667407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2378],"tags":[5,377,2554,57,4,185,282,70,2553,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-667406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-blue-jays","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-blue-jays","10":"tag-bluejays","11":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-toronto","15":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","16":"tag-torontobluejays","17":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116360867406901073","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/667407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}