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"To feel the love from all the fans, it's just cool," Smith said. "It's fun celebrating with these people, to see what the Dodgers mean to them."

Ward was the Pacific Coast League (PCL) Most Valuable Player after slashing .290/.380/.557 with 36 homers and 122 RBI for the Triple-A Oklahoma City Comets. Ward is the second OKC player to win PCL MVP, joining former Dodgers prospect Michael Busch (2023). Ward led Minor League Baseball in home runs, RBI, 73 extra-base hits and 315 total bases, and among PCL leaders, he ranked second with 113 runs scored, third in both slugging percentage (.557) and OPS (.937) and fourth with 164 hits.

The 2026 World Series smashed ratings expectations across the board, and Game 7 was the most-watched baseball game in 34 years. And note that the ratings success was not merely a function of expanded Canadian and Japanese audiences. In the US alone, 16.1 million people watched each game on average, which was an increase over last year's ratings dream of a matchup between the Yankees and Dodgers, and trounced the 2025 NBA Finals average viewership of 10.3 million.

The Dodgers wasted no time this week setting their sights on a potential World Series three-peat for next season. Now, they embark on the winter-long process of building a roster capable of doing it. For the most part, the core of the 2026 Dodgers shouldn't change much. Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and Will Smith will still lead the offense. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow will anchor the rotation.

When you face guys like him and Jacob deGrom and those kind of pitchers, you know when you wake up it's going to be a battle that night. When you face a power pitcher that can locate three plus-pitches, you know it's going to be tough. That's the thing, like he mentioned earlier, how he pitched tonight is probably not going to be how he pitches the next time.

The Puerto Rican utility man is versatile, talented, accomplished, - and above all else - motivated to win for his teammates. This is arguably the 'secret sauce' that has the Dodgers in a position to perennially compete for a World Series title, and largely why the team has won back-to-back titles. The players are selfless in playing for one another regardless as to what each player is making or what their role is on the ballclub.

"Yeah, I think it's our system, not my system. I can't say enough about [Roberts]. Just the consistency, the relentless optimism, his ability to put guys in great spots to succeed, and his ability to communicate around that," Friedman said of Roberts. "Because it's not always in ways that players want or believe is right. And his ability to lead our group has been exceptional over these 10 years."

In nine postseason appearances, Sasaki allowed just one run on six hits while collecting six strikeouts across 10.2 innings pitched. The stretch included Sasaki making MLB history as the first pitcher to record the first two saves of his career in the postseason. Then with his performance against the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 4 of the National League Division Series, he became the first pitcher to log perfect eighth, ninth and 10th innings of a series-clinching win.

Tyler Glasnow recorded his first career save as the Los Angeles Dodgers held on for a 3-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 6 of the World Series. The right-hander inherited a difficult situation in the ninth inning as he entered with runners on second and third and no outs. Glasnow needed just one pitch to get Ernie Clement to pop out

With their second straight World Series title and their third in six seasons, the Los Angeles Dodgers have built a dynasty that seemingly can't be stopped ... and according to bookmakers, it may not. The Dodgers opened as the consensus favorite to win another World Series in 2026, showing +375 odds at ESPN BET. Next come the New York Yankees at a relatively distant +700 before another somewhat significant drop to the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies at +1200.

The 2025 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers announced they will commemorate their ninth title in franchise history on Monday, November 3 with a Championship Parade in Downtown Los Angeles and a special ticketed Championship Celebration at Dodger Stadium. Both the parade and celebration at Dodger Stadium will be televised in their entirety on SportsNet LA and local television channels (including CBS 2, NBC 4, KTLA 5, ABC 7, KCAL 9, and Fox 11) and also carried on the radio by AM 570.

In the bottom of the first, with Shohei Ohtani on the ropes, Bo Bichette hit a three-run home run to give the Jays the lead. It was just the second time in the series that they've scored first. But the Dodgers started to chip away at the lead. In the fourth, Teoscar Hernández hit a sacrifice fly to make it 3-1, then Tommy Edman hit a sacrifice fly to make it 3-2 in the top of the sixth.

He could be the leader of the most expensive collection of talent in baseball history. He could be the two-time World Series champion manager. He could be part of a dynasty. Don Mattingly said he never viewed his departure from the Dodgers in that context, however. And when he returns to Dodger Stadium this week as the bench coach of the Toronto Blue Jays, he doesn't expect to feel anything he wouldn't feel in a World Series game played at any other stadium.