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Before Game 2, pop rock trio and 2025 Mastercard Stand Up To Cancer ambassadors the [[Jonas Brothers]] will perform their song “[[I Can’t Lose (song)|I Can’t Lose]]”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/jonas-brothers-pharrell-perform-world-series-2025-1236096218/|title=Jonas Brothers & Pharrell Williams to Perform at 2025 World Series Games 1 & 2|first=Michael|last=Saponara|date=October 23, 2025|website=Billboard}}</ref> [[Bebe Rexha]] sang the American national anthem while [[Alessia Cara]] sang the Canadian national anthem. [[Joe Carter]], who hit a [[walk-off home run]] to win the 1993 World Series for the Blue Jays, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch.<ref name=cfpgames1and2/> Game 2 featured starters [[Yoshinobu Yamamoto]] for the Dodgers and [[Kevin Gausman]] for the Blue Jays.<ref>https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/after-opening-rout-jays-send-out-ace-kevin-gausman-for-game-2/</ref>

Game 2 rock trio and 2025 Mastercard Stand Up To Cancer ambassadors the [[Jonas Brothers]] perform their song “[[I Can’t Lose (song)|I Can’t Lose]]”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/jonas-brothers-pharrell-perform-world-series-2025-1236096218/|= |date=October 23, 2025}}</ref> [[Bebe Rexha]] sang the American national anthem while [[Alessia Cara]] sang the Canadian national anthem. [[Joe Carter]], who hit a [[walk-off home run]] to win the 1993 World Series for the Blue Jays, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch.<ref name=cfpgames1and2/> [[ ]] for [[ ]] the .<ref>https://www.cbssports.com//news/-jays–out–game-2/</ref>

The Blue Jays’ [[Bo Bichette]] has been ruled out for Game 2 as he continues to recover from a left knee injury. [[Isiah Kiner-Falefa]] took his place at second base and was placed eighth in the batting order.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-10-25 |title=Blue Jays’ Bo Bichette: Out of Game 2 lineup |url=https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/blue-jays-bo-bichette-out-of-game-2-lineup/ |access-date=2025-10-25 |website=CBS Sports |language=en}}</ref>

===Game 3===

===Game 3===

Major League Baseball’s championship series

Baseball championship series

2025 World Series
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[b] (Japan – Japanese)
MLB International (International)
TV announcers Joe Davis, John Smoltz, Ken Rosenthal, and Tom Verducci (Fox)
Adrián García Márquez, Edgar González, Carlos Álvarez, Jaime Motta, and Michelle Liendo (Fox Deportes)
Dan Shulman, Buck Martinez, and Hazel Mae (Sportsnet)
Denis Casavant and Karl Gélinas (TVA Sports)
Tetsushi Sakanashi and So Taguchi (NHK)
Dave Flemming and Ryan Spilborghs (MLB International – English)
Radio ESPN (United States – English)
TUDN (United States – Spanish)
Sportsnet (Canada – English)
CJCL (TOR – English)
KLAC (LAD – English)
KTNQ (LAD – Spanish)
Radio announcers Jon Sciambi, Jessica Mendoza, Eduardo Pérez, and Buster Olney (ESPN)
Alberto Ferreiro, Luis Quiñones, Eduardo Sánchez, and Jesús Acosta (TUDN)
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 is 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 World Series appearance, 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. This is the first World Series since 2012 and the fifth overall to have a team that swept an LCS face a team that played a seven-game LCS.[2]

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 in 13 seasons.[3] 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 titles.

The series opened with the Blue Jays taking game one after building an insurmountable 11–2 lead over the Dodgers in the sixth inning, due in part to Toronto pinch hitter Addison Barger hitting the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history, ending the game at 11–4.[4][5]

The series began 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.[6]

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.[7] 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.[8]

The Dodgers won two games out of three against the Blue Jays in a three-game series at Dodger Stadium from August 8–10.[9][10][11] 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 the Blue Jays and the Dodgers.

Blue Jays’ bench coach Don Mattingly was the manager for the Dodgers from 2011–2015 and bench coach from 2008-2010, 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.[12][13]

Los Angeles Dodgers

Two-way player Shohei Ohtani won the 2025 NLCS MVP with a three home run, six inning, ten strikeout, zero runs allowed performance in Game 4.

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,[14] 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.[15] 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).[16] 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.[17][18][19] They rebounded towards the end of the season, winning five of their last six regular season series,[20] 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”.[21]

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.[22] 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.[23] In the National League Championship Series, they dispatched the top-seeded National League Central champion Milwaukee Brewers in a four-game sweep.[24] 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. After hitting three home runs and pitching six shutout innings with ten strikeouts in the decisive Game 4 of the NLCS, Ohtani won the NLCS MVP Award.[25] 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.[26] Overall, the Dodgers are seeking their ninth World Series championship.

Toronto Blue Jays

Vladimir Guerrero Jr, the 2025 ALCS MVP, has hit six home runs so far this postseason.

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.[27] 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 the lead in 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.[28] After the All-Star break, the Blue Jays won eight of nine games, further expanding their lead in the AL East over New York. An injury to Bo Bichette 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.[29] 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.[30]

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.[31] 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.[32] 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.[33] 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.[34] Guerrero Jr. won the ALCS MVP, as he altogether in the postseason has had more home runs (six) than strikeouts (three).[35] As a team, the Blue Jays have slugged 0.523 thus far in 11 games this postseason.[36]

The Blue Jays are looking to win their third World Series title. They have won their previous two World Series, in 1992 and 1993. With a World Series win, this would be Toronto’s first championship since the Toronto Raptors won the 2019 NBA Finals, as well as their first under current manager John Schneider. The Raptors and Maple Leafs changed the times of some of their games to avoid conflict with the World Series.[37]

Summary

Toronto leads the series, 1–0.

Game Date Score Location Time Attendance 
1 October 24 Los Angeles Dodgers – 4, Toronto Blue Jays – 11 Rogers Centre 3:13 44,353[38] 
2 October 25 Los Angeles Dodgers at Toronto Blue Jays Rogers Centre 8:00 pm –[39] 
3 October 27 Toronto Blue Jays at Los Angeles Dodgers Dodger Stadium 5:00 pm – 
4 October 28 Toronto Blue Jays at Los Angeles Dodgers Dodger Stadium 5:00 pm – 
5 October 29† Toronto Blue Jays at Los Angeles Dodgers Dodger Stadium 5:00 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

Addison Barger hit a grand slam as a pinch hitter in Game 1

Game 1 featured starters Blake Snell for the Dodgers and Trey Yesavage for the Blue Jays.[40] Singer and musician Pharrell Williams performed prior to the game while gospel choir Voices of Fire sang the American and Canadian national anthems accompanied by the Color of Noise Orchestra and also performed with Williams.[41] Cito Gaston, the manager of the 1992 and 1993 World Series champions, threw the ceremonial first pitch.[42] Bo Bichette, the Blue Jays’ starting shortstop who last played on September 6, returned to the lineup as the second baseman, his first MLB appearance at the position.[43]

After Snell retired the first two Blue Jays, Vladimir Guerrero Jr, Bo Bichette, and Alejandro Kirk proceeded to load the bases before Daulton Varsho flied out to end the short-lived threat. In the top of the second inning, Yesavage allowed two runners to reach before Enrique Hernández’s single scored Teoscar Hernández and gave the Dodgers a 1–0 lead. A Tommy Edman infield single proceeded to load the bases with just one out, but Yesavage managed to escape the jam, ending with a Shohei Ohtani groundout. In the bottom half of the inning, a base-running mistake led to an inning-ending 1-3-5 putout on Ernie Clement. After Springer hit a ground ball that Snell could not convert into a force at first, he then threw to third base, where Clement was tagged out. In the third, Yesavage walked Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman to lead off the inning before Will Smith’s single scored Betts to make the score 2–0. However, Freeman was thrown out trying to advance to third, which helped Yesavage get out of the inning with just the one run allowed. In the bottom of the fourth inning, Daulton Varsho hit a two-run home run to tie the game 2–2 after Kirk led off with a single. Yesavage’s outing ended after pitching four innings, allowing four hits, two runs, and walking three batters while striking out five.

In the bottom of the sixth inning, Bichette led off with a walk, Kirk singled, and a pitch hit Varsho. The Dodgers then turned to their bullpen in Emmet Sheehan, but Ernie Clement’s single scored Isiah Kiner-Falefa (pinch-running for Bichette) to take a 3–2 lead. Nathan Lukes then drew a walk, scoring Kirk, and Andrés Giménez singled to extend the lead to three. Anthony Banda was then brought in to deal with the top of the order after George Springer grounded into a fielder’s choice, but pinch-hitter Addison Barger hit a grand slam, giving the Jays a 9–2 lead. Kirk then hit a two-run home run to center field to increase the lead to 11–2. The nine-run inning was the third-highest ever in a World Series game.[44] Barger’s grand slam was also the first pinch-hit grand slam in World Series history.[45]

In the top of the seventh inning, Shohei Ohtani hit a two-run home run to right field to cut the Blue Jays’ lead to 11–4. Blue Jays closer Eric Lauer finished the game by striking out Betts as the Jays take Game 1 of the World Series.[46]

Game 2

Game 2 featured starters Yoshinobu Yamamoto for the Dodgers and Kevin Gausman for the Blue Jays.[47] Pop rock trio and 2025 Mastercard Stand Up To Cancer ambassadors the Jonas Brothers perform their song “I Can’t Lose” before Game 2 started.[48] Bebe Rexha sang the American national anthem while Alessia Cara sang the Canadian national anthem. Joe Carter, who hit a walk-off home run to win the 1993 World Series for the Blue Jays, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch.[42] The Blue Jays’ Bo Bichette has been ruled out for Game 2 as he continues to recover from a left knee injury. Isiah Kiner-Falefa took his place at second base and was placed eighth in the batting order.[49]

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.[6] 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.[50] Kevin Burkhardt will host the pregame and postgame shows, joined by analysts Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, and David Ortiz.[51]

Canada

In Canada, the World Series will be televised in English by Sportsnet and stream on Sportsnet+ and in French on TVA Sports.[52] 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. Jamie Campbell hosts the pregame and postgame shows alongside Madison Shipman and Joe Siddall.[53]

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.[53][54]

Games will also air in Canada on Sportsnet’s sibling over-the-air network Citytv, which has in the past carried U.S. network coverage of major events being aired on Sportsnet to avail of simultaneous substitution rules, whereby the American network feed is substituted with a Canadian broadcast channel on cable providers.[55][56][57][58]

Japan

In Japan, the World Series will be televised by NHK and J Sports and stream on SPOTV NOW.[52]

Ratings

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.[59]

Canada

Sportsnet Radio, via the Toronto Blue Jays Radio Network (both flagshipped at CJCL in Toronto), will broadcast the series in Canada.[6] The Blue Jays’ regular radio commentary team of Ben Shulman on play-by-play and Chris Leroux as color analyst will announce the series.[60]

Notes

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Games 1 and 4 on NHK G and NHK BSP4K
    Games 2 and 3 in NHK BS
    All Games also streamed on NHK ONE[1]

See also

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