World Series Game 7 takeaways: Dodgers rally for epic win over Blue Jays

Game 7 of the 2025 World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers lived up to the hype in every way possible... and then some, needing extra innings to decide the winner between two evenly matched teams.

Will Smith blasted a two-out homer off Toronto's Shane Bieber in the 11th inning to give the Dodgers a 5-4 comeback win and secure the franchise's second consecutive World Series title and third championship this decade.

Toronto was two outs away from winning the Fall Classic when Miguel Rojas hit a solo homer to knot the game at 4 in the ninth inning and eventually send it to extra innings. In all, Los Angeles hit three home runs to power them to the title.

The Blue Jays had a big homer of their own earlier in the game when Bo Bichette blasted a three-run homer off Shohei Ohtani in the third inning. However, Toronto's offense wouldn't be able to take advantage of many opportunities outside of that. 

It was a World Series that had tense moments not only because of the close game, but also because of a benches-clearing moment in the fourth inning after Dodger reliever Justin Wrobleski hit Andres Gimenez with a pitch. Words were exchanged, bullpens were emptied and play eventually resumed after a brief delay to restore order.

That was a moment that reminded the world that the Blue Jays weren't going to back down from the Dodgers, a team that cruised through the first three rounds of the postseason before what became a World Series for the ages.

However, Los Angeles showed in the end that it was once again MLB's best team.

Shohei Ohtani was human for the Dodgers on the mound

Having last thrown 6.0 innings on Oct. 28, Ohtani took the mound on Saturday night on short rest and the three days in between starts showed.

Ohtani was anything but crisp in his Game 7 start, laboring through 51 pitches and taking extra time between innings to get ready, drawing questions from Toronto manager John Schneider to the umpiring crew about the extra time. 

While Ohtani was able to work his way out of trouble in the first two innings, it was the third where he allowed a leadoff single to George Springer and then, after a wild pitch, issued a one-out intentional walk to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to bring Bichette to the plate.

Bichette would end Ohtani's night in a quick and momentum-swinging way.