Benches clearing and unlikely heroes: Five craziest moments from Dodgers-Blue Jays Game 7

The Los Angeles Dodgers repeated as champions with a 5-4, 11-inning win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 7 of the 2025 World Series on Saturday night. It was the perfect ending to one of the best World Series of the modern era, and was also one of the single most dramatic baseball games ever played. 

It is not just that the Dodgers won.

It was the game that had several crazy moments that individually would have been almost too hard to believe. All of them happened in the same game. Here are the five craziest:

5. The benches emptied, and it was completely forgotten

How crazy was this game? It was a winner-take-all, Game 7 of the World Series, and it featured the benches emptying in the fourth inning after Andres Gimenez was hit by a pitch following two previous high-and-tight pitches in his at-bat. 

The rest of this game was so insane, so bonkers, and so crazy that it is almost like it never happened. 

4. The fact that Yoshinobu Yamamoto got the win

Yamamoto had one of the all-time great World Series performances for a pitcher, earning three wins in the series. The third of those wins is the most improbable, as it happened in relief, and just 24 hours after he started Game 6 and threw 96 pitches. 

He threw 2.2 innings in Game 7, allowed one hit, did not allow a run, and ended the World Series with a 3-0 record and a 1.04 ERA. 

They do not win the World Series without him. 

3. The game almost ended on a replay review

With the game tied, 4-4, in the bottom of the ninth inning, the Blue Jays loaded the bases with only one out and simply needed a routine fly ball hit to the outfield to win. It was there that Daulton Varsho hit a sharp ground ball right at Miguel Rojas. After nearly losing his footing and struggling to get a throw off, Rojas was finally able to throw home and get Isiah Kiner-Falefa by the slimmest of margins. The World Series literally came down to a replay review.