How The 2025 World Series Saved Major League Baseball

Start your day smarter - join over 4 million professionals reading Morning Brew for free by clicking https://morningbrew.yt.link/XOo34aI #ad The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 in a seven-game epic that stands as one of the most dramatic World Series ever, concluding on November 1, 2025, at a raucous Rogers Centre with the Dodgers' 5-4, 11-inning Game 7 triumph—their second straight title and ninth overall, marking the first repeat since the New York Yankees' three-peat from 1998–2000—fueled by a star-studded rotation including Shohei Ohtani, Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who threw 96 pitches to win Game 6 before heroically closing out Game 7 with 2⅔ scoreless innings on zero rest for the MVP award, while Toronto's gritty resurgence from last place in the 2024 AL East to their first Fall Classic since 1993 featured explosive early offense and veteran Max Scherzer's dominant Game 5 gem at age 41, but fell just short amid a series defined by firsts like back-to-back leadoff homers in Game 5 (Davis Schneider and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.), an 18-inning marathon in Game 3 won by Mookie Betts' walk-off single after nearly seven hours, the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history, and Miguel Rojas' improbable ninth-inning tying homer in Game 7 off Jeff Hoffman with two outs and the Jays one strike from victory, setting up Will Smith's go-ahead blast in the 11th against Shane Bieber. Subscribe for more :D #baseball #mlb