Even before his Yankees won Game 4 of the World Series to avoid a sweep at the hands of the Dodgers, staff ace Gerrit Cole expressed optimism that he’d get the ball again.

The New York Yankees may be a strange source for worries about payrolls being too high in Major League Baseball, but owner Hal Steinbrenner expressed "concern" about the Los Angeles Dodgers winning back-to-back titles.

A series-by-series look at each of the World Series the Dodgers franchise played in before winning it all again by beating the Toronto Blue Jays in 2025.

Weeks later the chest still pounds, the throat still thickens, the mind still has not completely grasped. The Dodgers won their second consecutive World Series championship in pure dramatic art.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have secured their second straight World Series victory and their third championship in six years, establishing a true baseball dynasty.

Instead of getting a World Series-winning, three-run homer like the one Joe Carter hit off Philadelphia’s Mitch Williams to capture the title in Game 6 in 1993, the Blue Jays were pushed to Game 7 and the Dodgers kept alive their chance to become the first repeat champion since the 1998-2000 New York Yankees.

For the first two games of the World Series, the average viewership in Japan was almost as high as in the United States, despite a population one-third that of the U.S.

See? We weren’t kidding when we said this could be an epic World Series. The Dodgers and Yankees just played a Game 1 that met the moment. A Series with a staggering number of superstars and featuring