The Dodgers win the 2025 World Series: Fan Reaction -

At the weekend, the Los Angeles Dodgers triumphed over the Toronto Blue Jays to become back-to-back World Series champions.

It was a World Series for the ages, and all of us here at Bat Flips and Nerds thoroughly enjoyed it, with Ben and Darius giving their reaction on the Bat Flips and Nerds Podcast post-Game 7.

We also sought out the opinions of Dodgers fan too, with Dodgers fan and head coach of the University of Lancashire baseball team, Ian Blease, giving his thoughts on the 2025 World Series below.

Dodgers fan reaction

There’s something about being a fan of a sport that generally airs in the middle of the night in the UK that adds a little ‘extra’. Maybe it’s just the tiredness from the late nights required to follow my team’s progress? Maybe it’s just that I care so much more than even I believe I do, I can’t tell you for sure. But what I can tell you is that, when the postseason rolls around, this ‘extra’ thing is taken to a whole new level.

The highs, the lows and everything in-between are amplified. My mood the next day is almost entirely reliant on how the Dodgers played the night before. This postseason, I was cruising. With only one loss in the first three rounds and the starting pitching dominating, this year didn’t quite feel the same, and you know what, I was okay with it.

As a Dodgers fan, my team has reached the World Series five times since 2017. Maybe the novelty of the occasion was wearing off? I hated myself for considering this possibility. The World Series is what every fan dreams of their team winning, and yet for me the postseason wasn’t slapping me in the face in the same way it used to – but then came the World Series.

The Fall Classic was one for the ages – and whatever I hadn’t been experiencing in the early rounds was back in abundance for the next nine nights.

First, the lows. A nine-run sixth inning sunk the Dodgers in Game One and the Blue Jays’ bats were on fire.

Then, part one of Yoshinobu Yamamoto‘s masterpiece, as he threw a complete game in a 5-1 win where Will Smith and Max Muncy homered as the Dodgers drew level. The highs were on their back.

Game Three will go down in history for so many reasons. 18 innings, a walk-off homer, more pitchers used in a postseason game than ever before, Ohtani reached base nine times, 29 strikeouts – I mean, take your pick from the list of remarkable feats achieved that day. A gut punch to the Blue Jays, elation for the Dodgers as LA took a 2-1 lead, with two left to play at home.

The imperious Ohtani faltered in game three, while Vladdy Jr continued his rampage. Toronto tied things up and the momentum was back with the Canadians.

This was bolstered in Game Four as rookie sensation Trey Yesavage out-duelled Blake Snell. The Blue Jays would be heading home needing to win just one of the final two games.

Game Six saw Yamamoto again, and though the Jays managed to chase him from the game after six innings this time, he held them to one run and a Mookie Betts two-run single in the third was enough to cement a lead the Dodgers would never relinquish – but that really doesn’t tell the full story of the game. A freak play where the ball lodged in the wall cost Toronto at least one run, and a game ending double play saw Tyler Glasnow escape a jam on just three pitches. It was all tied up and we were set for the first Game Seven since 2019. Could it live up to the hype of the rest of the series? In a word, yes.

The game will be remembered for unlikely heroes – Miguel Rojas shone, first with the bat, and then with the glove. His home run tied the game in the top of the ninth, his play at home saved it in the bottom half. Somehow, Yoshinobu Yamamoto returned 24 hours after his last start to earn a third win of the series and lock in his selection as series MVP.

This World Series had absolutely everything. Jaw-dropping defense, clutch hits, scintillating pitching and huge managerial moves. So maybe the next time someone tells you they think baseball is boring, you could direct them to this series, to the first back-to-back champions of the century, and all they had to go through to achieve it.

Ian Blease is a Los Angeles Dodgers fan, and head coach of the University of Lancashire (formerly ‘UCLAN’) baseball team.

Final Thoughts

In our 2025 World Series Preview article, we said that the series would be dominated by multiple stories; Shohei vs Vladdy, David vs Goliath and America vs Canada.

Thankfully, the nationalistic rivalry narrative didn’t rear its ugly head, and instead, the baseball did the talking.

And talk it did – whether it was Trey Yesavage starting for the Blue Jays in Game 1 having started the season in Single-A, Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitching a complete game in Game 2, Game 3 needing 18 innings in order to decide a winner, the World Series needing all seven games to decide a winner or the fact that Game 7 then needed extra innings to decide a series winner, the 2025 World Series was a spectacle for all the right reasons.

Congratulations to the Dodgers, and commiserations to the Blue Jays, who played excellently. Hopefully, Canada’s team can use coming a matter of innings away from victory as fuel to come back even stronger next season.

As for next season, the 2026 MLB season is now 142 days away, and we can’t wait for it to start all over again!

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