| television = [[MLB on Fox|Fox]] ([[United States]] – [[English language|English]])<br />[[Fox Deportes]] (United States – [[Spanish language|Spanish]])<br />[[Toronto Blue Jays on Sportsnet|Sportsnet]] ([[Canada]] – English)<br />[[TVA Sports]] (Canada – [[French language|French]])<br />[[NHK]] ([[Japan]] – [[Japanese language|Japanese]])<br />[[J Sports]] (Japan – Japanese)<br />[[MLB International]] (International)
| television = [[MLB on Fox|Fox]] ([[United States]] – [[English language|English]])<br />[[Fox Deportes]] (United States – [[Spanish language|Spanish]])<br />[[Toronto Blue Jays on Sportsnet|Sportsnet]] ([[Canada]] – English)<br />[[TVA Sports]] (Canada – [[French language|French]])<br />[[NHK]] ([[Japan]] – [[Japanese language|Japanese]])<br />[[J Sports]] (Japan – Japanese)<br />[[MLB International]] (International)
| announcers = [[Joe Davis (sportscaster)|Joe Davis]], [[John Smoltz]], [[Ken Rosenthal]], and [[Tom Verducci]] (Fox)<br />[[Dan Shulman]], [[Buck Martinez]], and [[Hazel Mae]] (Sportsnet)<br />Denis Casavant and Karl Gélinas (TVA Sports)
| announcers = [[Joe Davis (sportscaster)|Joe Davis]], [[John Smoltz]], [[Ken Rosenthal]], and [[Tom Verducci]] (Fox)<br />[[Dan Shulman]], [[Buck Martinez]], and [[Hazel Mae]] (Sportsnet)<br />Denis Casavant and Karl Gélinas (TVA Sports)
| radio_network = [[Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio|ESPN]] (United States – English)<br />[[Sportsnet Radio|Sportsnet]] (Canada – English)<br />[[KLAC]] (LAD – English)<br />[[KTNQ]] (LAD – Spanish)<br />[[CJCL]] (TOR – English)
| radio_network = [[Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio|ESPN]] (United States – English)<br />[[Sportsnet Radio|Sportsnet]] (Canada – English)<br />[[KLAC]] (LAD – English)<br />[[KTNQ]] (LAD – Spanish)<br />[[CJCL]] (TOR – English)
| radio_announcers = [[Jon Sciambi]], [[Jessica Mendoza]], [[Eduardo Pérez]], and [[Buster Olney]] (ESPN)<br />Ben Shulman and [[Chris Leroux]] (Sportsnet / CJCL)<br />[[Stephen Nelson (sportscaster)|Stephen Nelson]] and [[Rick Monday]] (KLAC)<br />[[Pepe Yñiguez]] and [[José Mota (baseball)|José Mota]] (KTNQ)
| radio_announcers = [[Jon Sciambi]], [[Jessica Mendoza]], [[Eduardo Pérez]], and [[Buster Olney]] (ESPN)<br />Ben Shulman and [[Chris Leroux]] (Sportsnet / CJCL)<br />[[Stephen Nelson (sportscaster)|Stephen Nelson]] and [[Rick Monday]] (KLAC)<br />[[Pepe Yñiguez]] and [[José Mota (baseball)|José Mota]] (KTNQ)
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Major League Baseball’s championship series
Baseball championship series
| 2025 World Series | |
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| Dates | October 24 – November 1[a] |
| Venue(s) | Rogers Centre (Toronto) Dodger Stadium (Los Angeles) |
| Umpires | Jordan Baker, Adam Hamari, Adrian Johnson, Will Little, Alan Porter, John Tumpane, Mark Wegner (crew chief) |
| Television | Fox (United States – English) Fox Deportes (United States – Spanish) Sportsnet (Canada – English) TVA Sports (Canada – French) NHK (Japan – Japanese) J Sports (Japan – Japanese) MLB International (International) |
| TV announcers | Joe Davis, John Smoltz, Ken Rosenthal, and Tom Verducci (Fox) Dan Shulman, Buck Martinez, and Hazel Mae (Sportsnet) Denis Casavant and Karl Gélinas (TVA Sports) |
| Radio | ESPN (United States – English) Sportsnet/CJCL (Canada – English) KLAC (LAD – English) KTNQ (LAD – Spanish) CJCL (TOR – English) |
| Radio announcers | Jon Sciambi, Jessica Mendoza, Eduardo Pérez, and Buster Olney (ESPN) Ben Shulman and Chris Leroux (Sportsnet / CJCL) Stephen Nelson and Rick Monday (KLAC) Pepe Yñiguez and José Mota (KTNQ) |
| ALCS | Toronto Blue Jays over Seattle Mariners (4–3) |
| NLCS | Los Angeles Dodgers over Milwaukee Brewers (4–0) |
The 2025 World Series (branded as the 2025 World Series presented by Capital One for sponsorship reasons) is the championship series of Major League Baseball‘s (MLB) 2025 season. The 121st edition of the World Series will be a best-of-seven playoff series between the National League (NL) champion and defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the American League (AL) champion Toronto Blue Jays, It marks the Dodgers’ 23rd overall and second consecutive trip to the Fall Classic, following their victory over the New York Yankees in 2024, making this the first World Series since 2009 to feature a defending champion. It is the Blue Jays’ third overall appearance, and first in 32 years following back-to-back titles in 1992 and 1993. The series also marks the first postseason meeting between Toronto and Los Angeles.
The Dodgers successfully navigated through a 22–32 stretch from early July through early September to win the National League West for the 12th time and 13 seasons.[1] The Dodgers aspire to win back-to-back titles for the first time in franchise history, a feat that has not been replicated in MLB since 2000. Meanwhile, the Blue Jays won the American League East for the first time since 2015 and clinched the top seed in the American League, which secured home-field advantage. Toronto significantly improved from 2024, where they ended last in the division. The Blue Jays are looking to become the first expansion franchise to win three World Series.
The series is scheduled to begin on October 24, with a potential Game 7 set for November 1, and will be televised by Fox in the United States and by Sportsnet in Canada.[2]
Background
The 2025 World Series logo returned to the classic, scripted white “World Series” wordmark in cursive, similar to the one used across 14 consecutive World Series logos from 1987 to 2000.[3] This is the ninth consecutive World Series to take place in either California or Texas. The Dodgers also joined the Philadelphia Phillies as the only teams in MLB history to play two different Canadian teams in the postseason. The Montreal Expos played the Phillies and Dodgers during their lone postseason appearance in 1981, and Philadelphia faced Toronto in the 1993 World Series.[4]
The Dodgers won two games out of three against the Blue Jays in a three-game series at Dodger Stadium from August 8–10.[5][6][7] In Game three, the Dodgers blew a late game lead in the eighth and a tie in the ninth; had they won that game, the World Series would have started in Los Angeles instead of Toronto. This World Series will mark the first postseason meeting between Toronto and Los Angeles. The last playoff meeting between the two cities in any sport occurred in the 1993 Stanley Cup playoffs, in which the Los Angeles Kings defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Clarence Campbell Conference final in seven games.
Blue Jays’ bench coach Don Mattingly was the manager for the Dodgers from 2010–2015, while Dodgers’ outfielder Teoscar Hernández was a popular Blue Jays player from 2017–2022, and the Blue Jays pursued him as a free agent during the 2024–25 off-season.[8][9]
Los Angeles Dodgers
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The Dodgers solidified their championship roster from the previous season by adding free agents starting pitcher Blake Snell, reliever Tanner Scott, and winning the bid to sign Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki, while also re-signing Teoscar Hernández and Blake Treinen. As heavy favorites to repeat,[10] the Dodgers became the first defending World Series champion to begin their season 8–0, besting the previous record held by the 1933 Yankees, who started their season 7–0.[11] The Dodgers had a 56–32 record with a nine game lead in the National League West on July 3. However, from July 4 through September 6, the Dodgers experienced their worst 54-game stretch (22–32) of Dave Roberts‘ tenure as team manager (2016–present).[12] At the heart of their struggles was an unreliable bullpen, including hitting rock-bottom on a September 6 walk-off loss to Baltimore where Yoshinobu Yamamoto did not allow a hit for 8+2⁄3 innings. Still, the bullpen could not get the final out and ended up blowing a 3–0 lead.[13][14][15] They rebounded towards the end of the season, winning five of their last six regular season series,[16] posting a 93–69 record and winning the NL West division for the fourth consecutive season and the 12th time in the last 13 seasons (2013–2020, 2022–2025). At the All-Star game, Freddie Freeman, Shohei Ohtani, and Will Smith were fan-voted starters, while Yamamoto was an MLB selection and Clayton Kershaw, playing in his last season, was the “legend pick”.[17]
As the third-best division winner by record, they hosted and swept the sixth-seeded Cincinnati Reds in the Wild Card Series in two games.[18] The Dodgers then defeated the National League East champion Philadelphia Phillies in four games in the National League Division Series, highlighted by an errant throw by Orion Kerkering that gave the Dodgers the series walk-off win.[19] In the National League Championship Series, they dispatched the top-seeded National League Central champion Milwaukee Brewers in a four-game sweep.[20] They allowed just four runs in the series and it was their first sweep in a seven-game series since sweeping the New York Yankees in the 1963 World Series. Unlike last year’s team which was reliant on relief pitching, the Dodgers’ team strength this season was their starting pitchers, due to the signing of Snell, a return to pitching from two-way superstar Ohtani, a healthy second half of the season from Tyler Glasnow (who was absent from the team’s playoff run last year), and a full season of Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Throughout the postseason, the staff has at least pitched into the sixth inning in every start but one and has yet to allow more than three earned runs. For his three home run, six inning, ten strikeout, zero runs allowed performance in Game 4 of the NLCS, Ohtani was voted as the NLCS MVP.[21] They enter the World Series winners of 24 of their last 30 games (regular season and playoffs).
This is the Dodgers’ 23rd World Series appearance and the fifth in the last nine seasons (2017, 2018, 2020, 2024, 2025), all five of which have come under Roberts. They are the first reigning World Series champion to reach the World Series since the 2009 Phillies and are looking to become the first repeat champions since the 1999–2000 Yankees, as well as the first in the National League to accomplish this feat since the 1975–1976 Reds.[22] Overall, the Dodgers are seeking their ninth World Series championship.
Toronto Blue Jays
The Blue Jays opened 2025 looking to improve off their dismal 2024 season, which had been their first losing season since 2019. In April, they extended star player Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who was set to become a free agent at season’s end, to a 14-year, $500 million contract.[23] As for the team, they did not find success until June 1, when they won eight of ten games to start the month. From June 29 through July 8, they won ten straight games, including a four-game sweep of the New York Yankees at the Rogers Centre. Their sudden hot play, coupled with a Yankees’ swoon, saw the Blue Jays take over the American League East on July 3, a division they had once trailed by eight games in late May. At the 2025 All-Star game, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was named a starter, and catcher Alejandro Kirk was selected as a reserve.[24] After the All-Star break, the Blue Jays won eight of nine games, further expanding their lead in the AL East over New York. A Bo Bichette injury and a late September surge from the Yankees threatened Toronto’s AL East lead, but they defeated the Tampa Bay Rays on the last day of the season, securing their first AL East division title since 2015.[25] The Blue Jays and Yankees finished tied, but by virtue of their better 8–5 regular season head-to-head record against New York, Toronto won the division.
With a division title won, the Blue Jays also claimed a first-round bye and the top seed in the American League for the first time since 1985.[26] In the American League Division Series, they met the Yankees for the first postseason match-up between division rivals, where they won the series in four games.[27] Their Game 1 win ended a six-game postseason losing streak and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit the team’s first ever postseason grand slam in Game 2.[28] In the American League Championship Series, they came back trailing from losing the three out of first five games to force a Game 7 after a win in Game 6, then defeating the Seattle Mariners in a comeback in Game 7, highlighted by a seventh inning George Springer go-ahead three-run home run, to reach the World Series for the first time since their 1993 championship season.[29] Guerrero Jr. won the ALCS MVP, as he altogether in the postseason has had more home runs (six) than strikeouts (three).[30] As a team, the Blue Jays have slugged 0.523 thus far in 11 games this postseason.[31]
The Blue Jays are looking to win their third World Series title. They have won their previous two World Series, in 1992 and 1993, both under Cito Gaston. With a World Series win, this would be Toronto’s first championship in one of the “Big Four” North American professional sports leagues since the Toronto Raptors won the 2019 NBA Finals, as well as their first under current manager John Schneider. It would also mark the first time an expansion team would win a third World Series championship.
Summary
Series tied, 0–0.
| Game | Date | Score | Location | Time | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 24 | Los Angeles Dodgers at Toronto Blue Jays | Rogers Centre | 8:00 pm | – |
| 2 | October 25 | Los Angeles Dodgers at Toronto Blue Jays | Rogers Centre | 8:00 pm | – |
| 3 | October 27 | Toronto Blue Jays at Los Angeles Dodgers | Dodger Stadium | 8:00 pm | – |
| 4 | October 28 | Toronto Blue Jays at Los Angeles Dodgers | Dodger Stadium | 8:00 pm | – |
| 5 | October 29† | Toronto Blue Jays at Los Angeles Dodgers | Dodger Stadium | 8:00 pm | – |
| 6 | October 31† | Los Angeles Dodgers at Toronto Blue Jays | Rogers Centre | 8:00 pm | – |
| 7 | November 1† | Los Angeles Dodgers at Toronto Blue Jays | Rogers Centre | 8:00 pm | – |
† If necessary
Game summaries
Game 1
Singer and musician Pharrell Williams will perform prior to the game while gospel choir Voices of Fire will sing the American and Canadian national anthems accompanied by a orchestra and also performed with Williams.[32]
Game 2
Pop rock trio and 2025 Mastercard Stand Up To Cancer ambassadors Jonas Brothers will perform their song “I Can’t Lose” prior to the game.[33]
Game 3
Game 4
Broadcasting
Television
United States
For the 26th straight year, the World Series will be televised in the United States on Fox in English and on Fox Deportes in Spanish, and stream on the Fox Sports app and Fox One.[2] Play-by-play announcer Joe Davis (who is the Dodgers’ lead television announcer on Spectrum SportsNet LA during the regular season) will call the games along with John Smoltz as color analyst and Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci as field reporters.[34] Kevin Burkhardt will host the pregame and postgame shows, joined by analysts Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, and David Ortiz.[35]
Canada
In Canada, the World Series will be televised in English by Sportsnet and stream on Sportsnet+ and in French on TVA Sports.[36] Play-by-play announcer Dan Shulman and color analyst Buck Martinez (who are the Blue Jays’ lead television announcers during the regular season) will call the games, joined by Hazel Mae as field reporter.[37]
This will be the first World Series to have a dedicated Canadian broadcast; due to MLB rules, Canadian broadcasters were previously required to simulcast the American telecast during the Blue Jays’ postseason appearances (such as the Blue Jays’ World Series appearances in 1992 and 1993, where CTV simulcast the CBS coverage), which faced routine criticism from Canadian viewers. In 2020, Sportsnet—which televises the Blue Jays’ regular season games—received the right to produce its own telecasts of postseason games as MLB’s national Canadian broadcaster, which would allow the network to carry its “regional” production into postseason games if the Blue Jays were to advance.[37][38]
Japan
In Japan, the World Series will be televised by NHK and J Sports and stream on SPOTV NOW.[36]
Radio
United States
For the 28th consecutive year, ESPN Radio will broadcast the series in the United States. Jon Sciambi will do play-by-play, with Jessica Mendoza (who was part of the Dodgers’ television crew on Spectrum SportsNet LA during the regular season) and Eduardo Pérez providing color commentary and Buster Olney reporting from the field.[39]
Canada
Sportsnet Radio, via the Toronto Blue Jays Radio Network (both flagshipped at CJCL in Toronto), will broadcast the series in Canada.[2] The Blue Jays’ regular radio commentary team of Ben Shulman on play-by-play and Chris Leroux as color analyst will announce the series.
Notes
- ^ World Series Game 7, if necessary, will be played November 1; the soonest the postseason could end is October 28, the date of a World Series Game 4.
See also
References
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