The 2025 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays will go down as one of the best seven-game Fall Classics in history. The World Series, which was won in extra innings by the Dodgers on Saturday evening, had many wild moments and memorable performances this year.
However, there were also some things that happened during this year’s World Series that were historic, but also didn’t make as many headlines as Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s MVP pitching or Will Smith’s game-winning home run in the World Series.
With that in mind, here are three things this year’s World Series will add to the baseball record books.
This 2025 World Series was just like…1926?
Sure, this year’s World Series consisted of seven games. However, the pattern of victories between Toronto and Los Angeles was unlike anything seen in the Fall Classic since the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the New York Yankees in seven games in 1926.
According to Elias, the 2025 World Series was only the second World Series ever to follow the path of the home team winning Game 1, the road team winning Game 2, the home team winning Game 3 and the road team winning Games 4 through 7, joining the Cardinals and Yankees 1926.
The Dodgers player made headlines and history
Los Angeles outfielder Justin Dean was in the middle of one of the most talked about plays of Game 6 when he signaled to the officials that Addison Barger’s hit to left-center in the ninth inning was under the wall. With that signal, the umpires ruled it a dead ball, leaving Barger with a double and preventing Myles Straw from scoring from first base (he was held at third base with the dead ball call).
That decision kept the Los Angeles lead at 3-1 in what would be the final as Tyler Glasnow worked his way out of the jam to record the save.
Dean being brought into the game for defensive purposes happened more often than you might think, not just during the World Series, but throughout the postseason. The 28-year-old Dean played in twelve games this postseason, but did not appear. He made ten appearances as a defensive replacement in center field and twice as a pinch-runner.
His 12 games played during the postseason are the most ever in a single postseason without any at-bats (among non-pitchers), surpassing the previous record of 10 games without an at-bat set by Clay Bellinger in 2000. Bellinger played in 11 games for the Yankees in 2000, getting a hit in his only at-bat.
Hitting home runs? It’s an international matter.
Trailing 4-3 in the ninth inning of Game 7, the Dodgers’ Miguel Rojas launched a tying home run to mark the 10th. World Series home run, hit by an internationally born player. Also Shohei Ohtani (three home runs), Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (two), Alejandro Kirk (two), Enrique Hernandez (one) and Teoscar Hernandez (one) joined Rojas as players born outside the United States to hit a homer at the Fall Classic.
According to Elias, the 10 home runs are the most in a single World Series by internationally born players, breaking a tie with 2017 and 2019, which each had nine.
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