PORT JEFF, NY- Greetings, WHAT A GAME. WHAT A SERIES. Lets get right into it!
World Series reaction
Coming into this series I thought the Dodgers were head and shoulders above this Blue Jays team and I could not have been more wrong. Despite the truly sole crushing loss in a game they led in the ninth inning, the Blue Jays were incredibly impressive all series and stood toe to toe with the beast that is the Dodgers.
After mowing through the National League with relative ease, there was a lot of discourse about how the Dodgers had ruined baseball and bought their way to their third WS title in six years. While they did emerge victorious I think this series displayed exactly why baseball is so unique. Coming into 2025 absolutely nobody picked this Blue Jays team to even make the playoffs, they didn’t make many splash moves in the offseason and there were even discussions about trading Vlad Guerrero.
Despite all that the Blue Jays went on a magical run that saw them get within two outs away from knocking off the Dodgers and winning their first title since in over two decades.
To go even further, with the Dodgers trailing with one out in the ninth, it wasn’t the 800 million dollar man Shohei Ohtani, it wasn’t future Hall of Famers Mookie Betts or Freddie Freeman, it was Miguel Rojas a lifetime utility man who signed a two year eleven million dollar contract this past season. That right there is why baseball is so special, the moments can’t be fabricated, they can’t be bought it’s always been and always will be a game of destiny, and in 2025 the Dodgers were the team of destiny.
Now that we’ve discussed the series I just have to highlight for a second how incredible Yoshinobu Yamamoto was in this series. In his MVP performance, Yamamoto pitched a total of 17.2 innings, allowed just two runs and single-handedly kept this team alive to win their second straight WS. It’s truly rare to point to a single player that has such a massive impact on the series, particularly a starting pitcher as they’re usually limited to only two appearances. Yamamoto however, did the unthinkable and came back on ZERO days rest to shut down the blue jays for 2.2 innings and close out game 7.
Without the dominance of Yamamoto I can confidently say the dodgers do not win this series. In my opinion this is without question the best performance of any player in any series in a very long time.
