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Shohei Ohtani has two World Series rings in his first two seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, not to mention he’s likely to win back-to-back NL MVP awards.
But the Japanese two-way superstar is already thinking about the next time his team will lift the World Series trophy.
Ohtani was enjoying his time with his teammates, coaches and entire Dodger nation on Monday in Los Angeles, as the World Series champions celebrated their Game 7 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. It was an extra-inning thriller that ended with the Dodgers retaining their title after defeating the New York Yankees in 2024.
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Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani (17) and pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (18) during the World Series championship parade and celebration on November 3, 2025. (Kirby Lee/Image Images)
Ohtani was interviewed on one of the Dodgers’ parade buses, where he was asked if this is the “new norm” after winning it all in his first two trips to the postseason.
“I’m already thinking about the third time we’ll do this,” he said through an interpreter.
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One of the biggest MLB stories next season will be whether the Dodgers can become World Series champions for the third straight year, which would be the first time the franchise has done so.
The last team to do so was the Yankees from 1998 to 2000, which was the third time in franchise history that the feat was accomplished (1936-38 and 1949-53). The Oakland Athletics also did it between 1972 and 1974.
Ohtani and the Dodgers wouldn’t be talking about this if it weren’t for more postseason heroics in the dugout, especially from Miguel Rojas and Will Smith. Los Angeles came within two outs of losing the World Series at Rogers Center on Saturday when Rojas hit a game-tying solo home run off Jeff Hoffman to force extra innings. He also had a crucial force out at the plate with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the ninth inning that kept the game tied at four apiece.
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani during the Dodgers World Championship Parade and Celebration on Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Eric Thayer/Los Angeles Times)
Then, in the top of the 11th inning, Smith launched the home run that ultimately won the game off Shane Bieber.
Meanwhile, Ohtani had the Dodgers deadlocked early in the game after Bo Bichette hit him with a towering three-run homer in the bottom of the third inning to send the home crowd wild. The Dodgers would fight back and get their star back, who hit .333 (9-for-27) with three home runs, three doubles and five RBIs in the seven-game series.
Ohtani’s best performance was Game 3, where he hit two home runs and went 4-for-4 with two doubles as well in an 18-inning all-ages game, which ended with a Freddie Freeman home run.
Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrates after hitting a home run during the seventh inning against the Toronto Blue Jays in game three of the 2025 World Series at Dodger Stadium on October 27, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
After Mookie Betts’ game-sealing double play on Alejandro Kirk’s groundout in the bottom of the 11th inning in Game 7, the Dodgers were celebrating once again.
Ohtani believes that feeling will also be felt next October.
