5 insane moments that made Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series Game 7 that much more epic

The Dodgers are your 2025 World Series champions, the first team to go back-to-back in 25 years. Our jaws are on the floor.

It seemed entirely impossible throughout the majority of the series — really, throughout the majority of Game 7 — but somehow they made it happen against the Blue Jays and put on one of the most intense, nerve-wracking, throw-something-at-your-TV games of all time.

While everyone is probably still trying to wrap their heads around this one, these are the moments that brought the Dodgers' ninth trophy home.

5 insane moments that made Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series Game 7 that much more epic

Quick honorable mention: the benches-clearing incident in the fourth inning. Fun times, but no punches were thrown. And we've already forgotten about it.

Blake Snell escaping Ernie Clement's leadoff double

By the end of Game 7, we would see all four of the Dodgers' postseason starters on the mound. Shohei Ohtani started and gave up three runs in 2 1/3 innings, all on a homer for Bo Bichette. Tyler Glasnow got a bulk appearance and gave up Toronto's fourth run. Blake Snell replaced Emmet Sheehan in the eighth after Sheehan gave up a leadoff double.

Snell, after throwing 116 pitches just three nights before and getting knocked around by the Blue Jays' offense while doing it, had a point to prove with the championship on the line. He took Andrés Giménez, George Springer, and Davis Schneider (who hit that first-pitch homer off of him in Game 5) down in order.

Miguel Rojas' game-tying home run

With the Dodgers down to their last three outs and down by a run in the ninth, Kiké Hernández and Miguel Rojas were the least of closer Jeff Hoffman's worries. They must've looked like automatic outs for him, while Shohei Ohtani was the final boss he was really focused on.

Rojas, who made just his third postseason start that night, worked the count full before Jeff Hoffman offered up a slider basically down the middle. Rojas — as Joe Davis said, "of all people" — hammered it 105 MPH off the bat. It went over the left field wall to tie the game in the ninth. Stunning. Almost impossible.

Miguel Rojas' game-saving throw home

Rojas' busy night wasn't over there. Yoshinobu Yamamoto came in to clean up a dirty bottom of the ninth, after Bo Bichette singled off of Snell and Addison Barger walked — a day after pitching through his 15th inning of the World Series. Hero stuff.

But he looked a little off facing Alejandro Kirk, and a called hit by pitch was challenged but upheld to load the bases. Daulton Varsho came up and hit a slow grounder to Rojas playing second. He stumbled a little coming up with it, but fired it home just in time to catch pinch-runner Isiah Kiner-Falefa out at home. The Blue Jays challenged the call, but there was no chance. The bases stayed loaded, but Yamamoto needed just one more out.

Andy Pages barreling Kiké Hernández over

Unlikely heroes were the name of Game 7. Andy Pages, much (and rightfully) maligned by Dodgers fans for his historically bad offense throughout the postseason, took over for Tommy Edman in center field in the ninth, after Kirk's at-bat. Edman has been playing on a bum ankle, and Pages plays good center field (apart from the fact that he seems to never attempt to rob home runs when he should).

After Kiner-Falefa was ruled out at home by a centimeter, the Blue Jays' World Series batting champ, Ernie Clement, came up to try and play hero. He reached down for a first-pitch curveball and somehow managed to send it to deep left-center. Hernández in left had a beat on it, but not the best angle. Pages had a better one. They collided as the ball landed in Pages' mitt, sending Hernández splayed out onto the warning track.

Hernández shook it off and Dodgers fans breathed the loudest possible sigh of relief, but it certainly wasn't the prettiest way to get out of that inning.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto making history

Yamamoto has been absolutely otherworldly throughout the postseason (aside from that start against the Phillies that we don't have to talk about), and there is not a single Dodger more worthy of this World Series victory than him. After all, no pitcher has ever accomplished what he just did during this title run.

After coming in behind Snell and leaving the ninth unscathed, he pitched through the 10th and then came back for the 11th with a one-run lead. He gave up a leadoff double to Guerrero that had fans uneasy. Kiner-Falefa moved Guerrero to third with a sacrifice bunt, and the Dodgers looked like they had trouble.

Yamamoto walked Barger (maybe intentionally), but it set up the double play that Yamamoto, of course, induced on his third pitch to Kirk for the last two outs of the World Series. The Dodgers stormed the field, swarmed, and dogpiled Yamamoto before he was named World Series MVP, and he deserved every single moment of it.