Los Angeles Dodgers extended their reign in the MLB by winning the 2025 World Series, taking the best-of-seven play-off to Match 7 and beating Toronto Blue Jays, with Shohei Ohtani commanding a comeback from 3-0 down to a 5-4 victory, with some already calling it the best Game 7, or even the best World Series of all-time, with the largest combined audience between US, Canada, and Japan (32.6 million) since 2016.
Even before the World Series started, some were calling it a "David vs. Goliath" series for Toronto (last year, Los Angeles beat New York Yankees 4-1). However, the Canadian team came very close of stunning the champions and claiming a title they haven't won since 1993, a victory that would have resonated even beyond the world of sports, in the backdrop of the tense relationships between Canada and President Donald Trump.
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But Toronto manager John Schneider, despite the disappointment, said that they've set "a new expectation and a new standard and they did it with a lot of hard work (via Reuters). Meanwhile, long-time commentator Mike Lupica said that "there has never been a better Game 7 than we got in Toronto, and there has never been a better World Series than this one."