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The Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays begin a star-studded World Series on Friday.
The Dodgers are seeking to become the first team since the New York Yankees, who won three consecutive World Series between 1998 and 2000, to repeat as champions, while the Blue Jays last won in 1993.
The Blue Jays’ World Series title in 1993 was their second of consecutive championships.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays will meet in the 2025 World Series. (FOX)
The path of the two teams to the World Series has been different. The Dodgers have rolled, while the Blue Jays fought tooth and nail to reach the Fall Classic.
The Dodgers did have to play in the Wild Card Series, as they dismantled the Cincinnati Reds in two games to advance to the NLDS.
In the NLDS, the Dodgers defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in four games, helped by Phillies reliever Orion Kerkering’s terrible mistake, to advance to the National League Championship Series.
The Dodgers then made quick work of the Milwaukee Brewers and swept them. Shohei Ohtani had one of the most incredible postseason performances of all time in Game 4 to close out the series.
The Dodgers’ pitching staff, especially their starting pitching, has been sensational, allowing just 28 runs in 10 postseason games. The team’s elite rotation of Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Ohtani has carried the load so far.
SHOHEI OHTANI MAKES MLB HISTORY TO SEND THE DODGERS BACK TO THE WORLD SERIES
Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Shohei Ohtani (17) hits a solo home run against the Milwaukee Brewers during the fourth inning of Game 4 of the National League Championship Series for the 2025 MLB playoffs at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California, on October 17, 2025. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Imagn Images)
The Blue Jays narrowly avoided the wild card round. The Yankees responded and finished the season with the same record, but the Blue Jays held the tiebreaker to win the American League East and avoided the best-of-three series.
The Blue Jays dispatched the Yankees in four games behind an incredible offensive outbreak in the ALDS, scoring 34 runs.
After beating their American League East rival, the Blue Jays faced the Seattle Mariners in the American League Championship Series and won in seven exciting games.
The Mariners won the first two games of the American League Championship Series in Toronto, and the Blue Jays responded by winning Games 3 and 4 in Seattle. The Mariners won Game 5 in dramatic fashion thanks to third baseman Eugenio Suárez’s grand slam in the eighth inning.
The Blue Jays won Game 6 to force a decisive Game 7, which they won 4-3 after George Springer’s epic three-run homer in the seventh inning.
GEORGE SPRINGER’S 3-run homer lifts the BLUE JAYS OVER THE MARINERS TO BEAT PENNANT AND REACH THE WORLD SERIES
Toronto Blue Jays right fielder George Springer (4) celebrates while running the bases after hitting a three-run home run against the Seattle Mariners in the seventh inning during game seven of the American League Championship Series round for the 2025 MLB playoffs at Rogers Center on Oct. 20, 2025. (Dan Hamilton/Image Images)
Blue Jays star first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has been out of this world this postseason, hitting .442 with six home runs and 12 RBIs in 51 plate appearances in 11 games.
The Blue Jays could be in for reinforcements, as star shortstop Bo Bichette said he will be ready to return from a sprained left knee that has kept him sidelined since early September, according to MLB.com.
Bichette had a .311 batting average and 18 home runs in 139 games this season before the injury. If he is added to the roster, it is still unclear how Toronto will deploy him.
The Dodgers-Blue Jays matchup marks the fifth World Series in history in which one team swept its opponent in the LCS round and the other won in a seven-game series.
The team that played the seven-game series in the LCS won the World Series in the previous four instances.
Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Will Smith and Yoshinobu Yamamoto celebrate after game two of baseball’s National League Championship Series against the Milwaukee Brewers. The game was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 14, 2025. (Morry Gash/AP Photo)
All World Series games will be broadcast on FOX. These are the times and dates for this year’s Fall Classic:
- Game 1, Friday, October 24, 8 pm ET, in Toronto
- Game 2, Saturday, October 25, 8 pm ET, in Toronto
- Game 3, Monday, October 27, 8 pm ET, in Los Angeles
- Game 4, Tuesday, October 28, 8 pm ET, in Los Angeles
- Game 5, Wednesday, October 29, 8 pm ET, in Los Angeles*
- Game 6, Friday, October 31, 8 pm ET in Toronto*
- Game 7, Saturday, November 1, 8 pm ET in Toronto*
(*If required)
