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This is the real item of note - It was the biggest defensive play EVER and it's not even close

1. Double play last night - 46.24%
2. Double play to send 1924 Game 7 to extras - 32.81%
3. Double play to get Jack Morris out of bases loaded 1 out in top of the 8th 1991 WS G7 - 28.75%

02.11.2025 16:04 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

The past three Dodgers “relievers” that have thrown the final pitch of the World Series are Yoshinobu Yamamoto (2025), Walker Buehler (2024), & Julio Urías (2020).

02.11.2025 16:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Updated cWPA board

Updated cWPA board

Three of the 12 most pivotal plays in baseball history by cWPA occurred last night

02.11.2025 12:56 — 👍 392    🔁 110    💬 20    📌 19

Since 1969:

AL East teams are 0-7 in World Series game 7’s.

AL Central teams are 0-3 in World Series game 7’s:

AL West teams are 7-2 in World Series game 7’s.

02.11.2025 06:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Clayton Kershaw will officially join this list when he gets into the Hall of Fame —

HOFers to win World Series in final season (min 1 PS game played):

1968 Eddie Mathews DET
1953 Johnny Mize NYY
1951 Joe DiMaggio NYY

02.11.2025 04:57 — 👍 88    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1

The Dodgers ended up winning postseason games in September, October, & November this year.

02.11.2025 05:01 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yoshinobu Yamamoto:

First pitcher to win 3 games in a single World Series since 2001 Randy Johnson

First pitcher with 3 road wins in a single WS

4th P to win G6+7 in a WS, joining ‘01 Johnson, 1946 Harry Brecheen, 1925 Ray Kremer — FIRST to do it on road

02.11.2025 04:41 — 👍 649    🔁 95    💬 10    📌 11

This is the sixth straight season in which a Will Smith wins a World Series:
 
2025: C Will Smith (LAD)
2024: C Will Smith (LAD)
2023: LHP Will Smith (TEX)
2022: LHP Will Smith (HOU)
2021: LHP Will Smith (ATL)
2020: C Will Smith (LAD)

02.11.2025 04:48 — 👍 361    🔁 67    💬 10    📌 29

Game 6: W, Yamamoto
Game 7: W, Yamamoto

02.11.2025 04:20 — 👍 280    🔁 52    💬 6    📌 10

Oh Donnie Baseball.
Poor Donnie Baseball.

02.11.2025 04:18 — 👍 70    🔁 12    💬 5    📌 2

What

A

Series!

02.11.2025 04:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can I get an extra side of extra innings, please?

02.11.2025 04:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Get jiggy with it!!!

02.11.2025 04:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

World Series Game 7s that went to the 11th and beyond:

1997 Indians-Marlins, 11 innings
1924 Senators-Giants, 12 innings

We're about to start the 11th in Toronto. Fasten that seat belt.

02.11.2025 04:03 — 👍 105    🔁 14    💬 5    📌 0

Every single ball put in play raises the heart rate

02.11.2025 03:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dear baseball,

I love you!!

Sincereley,
Me

02.11.2025 03:41 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Love me some drama

02.11.2025 03:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Feels like 2016 again

02.11.2025 03:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wtf!!!

02.11.2025 03:15 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mike Trout should be able to pitch in relief so that he can strike out Ohtani to finish the World Series.

02.11.2025 03:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Shohei ohtani 
Three batters away

Shohei ohtani Three batters away

In the 9th

02.11.2025 02:55 — 👍 81    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 0

Can I get a side of Extra Innings to go with my Game 7, please?

02.11.2025 03:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Tomorrow, the Los Angeles Dodgers will become the first team to play baseball in three different months in the same postseason

#BuiltForSeptember
#andOctober
#andNovember

01.11.2025 03:17 — 👍 53    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

Most recent extra-inning postseason home runs:

Freddie Freeman - 2025 WS g3, B-18th
Freddie Freeman - 2024 WS g1, B-10th
Juan Soto - 2024 ALCS g5, T-10th

28.10.2025 07:01 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Wreddie Wreeman!!

28.10.2025 06:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There have been more outs recorded in this game than the Wild Card series between the Reds and Dodgers

28.10.2025 06:37 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

He’s going to end up with 9 intentional walks and 9 scoreless innings in relief

28.10.2025 05:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Blue Jays with a pinch-hit HR in the postseason:

Ed Sprague - 1992 WS g2 @ ATL
2-run HR in the 9th to take 5-4 lead

Addison Barger - 2025 WS g1 vs LAD
Grand Slam in a 9-run inning

25.10.2025 03:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Since scoring 3 runs in the fourth inning of NLDS Game Two, the Brewers have now gone 54 innings without scoring more than one run in an inning

16.10.2025 23:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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