The Dodgers didn’t just win Game 7 on Nov. 1, 2025 - they survived it. Los Angeles beat the Toronto Blue Jays to become MLB’s first repeat champion since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees, closing out what many have called one of the best World Series ever.
The title was sealed only after a wild chain of events that started the night before, when the Dodgers had to keep their season alive in Game 6 at Rogers Centre. A game-ending double play in that one set up the winner-take-all finale, and Game 7 delivered plenty more drama.
Shohei Ohtani took the ball on three days’ rest for the first time in his career, but the start didn’t go the Dodgers’ way. He lasted just 2.1 innings and left with Los Angeles down 3-0 after Bo Bichette launched a three-run homer that sent Ohtani out of the game.
The Dodgers started chipping away from there. Teoscar Hernández brought in their first run with a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning, and Tommy Edman trimmed the gap to one with a sac fly in the sixth. Toronto answered in the bottom half when Andrés Gimenez doubled in a run, keeping the Blue Jays in front.
Max Muncy then added a solo shot in the eighth, cutting the deficit to 4-3 and making sure Ohtani would have a chance to bat before the game could end.
Then came the late swing that changed everything.
With the Dodgers down to their final two outs, Miguel Rojas tied it with a solo home run off Blue Jays closer Jeff Hoffman. Rojas wasn’t done there.
He later handled a chopper at second base, stumbled, recovered, and still got the throw home in time to help the Dodgers escape a walk-off loss. Toronto challenged the force out at the plate, but the call stood.
Dave Roberts had put Rojas in the lineup for Games 6 and 7 in Toronto because he believed the club needed his veteran presence. Before that, Rojas had not started since Game 2 of the National League Division Series, and he did not appear in any NL Championship Series games.
The Blue Jays still had a chance after Rojas’ play, loading the bases, but Andy Pages shut that door too. Inserted as a defensive replacement two batters earlier, Pages ran down a ball in left-center field and held on after crashing into Kiké Hernández. Hernández later said he initially thought the ball had dropped and the Dodgers had lost the World Series.
Pages’ catch carried extra weight considering he had been benched during a long slump at the plate.
The Dodgers finally grabbed the lead in the 11th when Will Smith hit a solo home run.
From there, Yoshinobu Yamamoto finished the job. One night after throwing six innings, he recorded the final eight outs in Game 7 and got the win. His postseason run was strong enough to earn him World Series MVP honors.
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