The win capped an up-and-down season that saw the Dodgers struggle to close out games before turning another corner in the postseason and dominating their way through the National League before their matchup against the Blue Jays.
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For outfielder Alex Call, the championship run was a dream come true. Call, who completed his fourth season in Major League Baseball this year, was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the third round of the 2016 MLB June Amateur Draft and did not make his MLB debut until 2022. Call has been traded in two of his four seasons in professional baseball, including in 2025 when the Dodgers acquired him from the Washington Nationals at the deadline.
Call played 38 games for the Dodgers and showed his ability to get on base with a .247 hitting percentage and a walk-to-strikeout ratio of 0.52. Call had just seven at-bats in the postseason, registering one hit and one walk. Regardless, Call finished the 2025 season as World Series champions and is under team control and headed to arbitration for the 2026 season.
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“Going around LA and having everyone waving at you and just being super excited about what our team has done, just a surreal time really and really fun to take it all in,” Call told Sports Spectrum analyst and former NFL running back Matt Forte. “Why not? It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event. Hopefully we can do it again, but it could be once in a lifetime, so just enjoy it.”
Call’s path to earning his first ring wasn’t easy: He went from Ball State University to six straight seasons in Minor League baseball — not including the canceled 2020 Minor League season. Call told Forte that the long and windy road to the World Series made the celebration even sweeter.
“Being able to kind of make a parade lap through LA. We had the parade, then we go to the Lakers game the next day and then the Kings game the next day after that. Just seeing all the fans being super excited about what we were able to accomplish, and them getting to be a part of it, just kind of taking it in. It’s really a surreal moment, when you come full circle and look back at where you started. River Falls, Wisconsin, to Ball State, strolling through the Minor Leagues, and so on. suddenly finds his way to the Dodgers, on a World Series championship team.
Call and the Dodgers officially begin their quest for a third straight title on March 26 when they host the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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