Was this the best World Series game EVER?

Plus: Game 2, 6 AND 7 winner Yamamoto is MVP

Sunday, November 02 View In Browser  TOP NEWS Dodgers repeat as champs after unforgettable Game 7 thriller   A historic 11th-inning go-ahead homer by Will Smith. A heroic pitching effort from Yoshinobu Yamamoto on zero rest. A ninth inning fit for an action movie script. At the end of it all, L.A. was on top once again. Tireless Yamamoto named World Series MVP -- on zero days' rest! LA basking in 'golden era of Dodger baseball' Ranking the craziest plays from an epic World Series Game 7 What a way to end it! Wild stats from an unforgettable Game 7 Game 7 DELIVERS! Biggest takeaways from a thrilling Fall Classic clincher Rojas and Pages' 9th inning for the ages keys Dodgers' incredible Game 7 win Smith swats decisive HR while catching EVERY inning of Series Game 7 drama heightened as benches clear after Giménez hit by pitch Blue Jays 'left it all out there' in memorable 2025 run Bichette's HR brought Blue Jays so close ... and now free agency awaits MORE TOP NEWS PERSONALIZE STORIES MLB MORNING LINEUP PODCAST TOP PERFORMANCES Yoshinobu Yamamoto First pitcher with 3 road wins in a single World Series Miguel Rojas 2nd tying or go-ahead HR in 9th inning of winner-take-all WS game Will Smith 1st extra-innings HR in history of winner-take-all WS games Shohei Ohtani 2nd player with 2+ hits in winner-take-all WS game he pitched Ernie Clement 3 hits, 30 this postseason (most by a player in a single postseason) PLAY A SPORCLE BASEBALL QUIZ! MORE FREE GAMES AT MLB PLAY THE BRACKET MUST-SEE PLAY Mookie Betts got the Dodgers' celebration started. MORE TOP PLAYS STAFF PICKS Kershaw was late to the party on the infield Clayton Kershaw, who was warming up in the right-field bullpen, didn't have time to keep tabs on the situation in the bottom of the 11th. He thought there were two outs. "Honestly," the retiring pitcher said afterward, "I didn't know. ... [Bullpen catcher Josh Bard] looked at me and said, 'We just won the World Series,' and I was like, 'Are you sure?'" Even 4-time champs get nervous Mookie Betts is the only active player who has won as many as four World Series. Despite that experience, when the final ball in play of the 2025 World Series bounced his way, he felt some nerves. We should probably just start calling it the Will Smith Series Of all the weird and wonderful things that happened in this Fall Classic, this one might just be the wackiest: For the sixth straight season, somebody named Will Smith has won a World Series title. There have been 41 World Series Game 7s, and we ranked them all In a month full of white-knuckle drama, nothing tops Game 7 of the World Series. But just what is the best World Series Game 7 of all-time? Watch the end of every World Series since 1943 Take a look back and relive the final moment from every World Series, starting with the Yankees in '43 and ending with the Dodgers in '25. He just kept hitting Toronto third baseman Ernie Clement set a single-postseason record with 30 hits, batting .411 in 18 playoff games this year. MORE STORIES SCOREBOARD LAD 5 TOR 4 © 2025 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. MLB trademarks and copyrights are used with permission of Major League Baseball. Visit MLB.com. Any other marks used herein are trademarks of their respective owners. Please review our Privacy Policy. You (geoffgould.gr8iphone@blogger.com) received this message because you registered to receive commercial email messages from MLB.com. Please add info@marketing.mlbemail.com to your address book to ensure our messages reach your inbox. If you no longer wish to receive commercial email messages from MLB.com, please unsubscribe  or log in and manage your email subscriptions. Postal Address: MLB.com, c/o MLB Advanced Media, L.P., 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.