Ranking the best plays from 2025 World Series Game 7

To echo the famous call of one the most sensational moments in World Series history — and Dodgers history — we donâ€t believe what we just saw.

Here are 10 words that in no way do it justice: The Dodgers won the 2025 World Series in Game 7. Below are 10 moments from their 5-4, 11-inning victory in Toronto that get us maybe a bit closer. These are all from Saturday nightâ€s epic battle — which bled into the early moments of Sunday morning on the East Coast — and any one of them might have gone down as the most memorable moment from a “normal†game.

This was no normal game. It had everything: clutch homers, spectacular defensive plays, big pitches in big situations, and a little on-field kerfuffle, just for added spice. Basically, things got weird, and thank goodness for that.

Here is a subjective ranking of the 10 wildest plays from a World Series Game 7 that we still canâ€t quite wrap our minds around, and which weâ€ll never forget.

1. Miguel Rojas ties it with 9th inning HR
In a star-studded World Series with no shortage of memorable moments, it was Rojas — the No. 9 hitter for the Dodgers — who came up huge with a game-tying homer in the ninth inning against Blue Jays closer Jeff Hoffman. Rojas had played sparingly for most of the postseason, starting in Game 2 of the NLDS against the Phillies and not starting again until Game 6 of the World Series. Rojas†home run in the ninth inning was just the second postseason home run of his career and his first since the 2020 playoffs with the Marlins. For good measure, it was just his second big fly off a right-handed pitcher in 2025, and his first since June 14.

2. Andy Pages†acrobatic catch ends the 9th inning
Pages came into the game as a defensive replacement with one out in the ninth inning and the bases loaded — with the World Series-winning run just 90 feet away — likely due to his strong arm. But the center fielder ended up saving the game with his glove. With two outs, Ernie Clement lofted a high fly ball deep into left-center field. Kiké Hernández — whose own heroics in left field saved Game 6 — drifted back, converging with Pages at the base of the wall. Thatâ€s when Pages took charge, leaping and crashing into Hernández while making a jaw-dropping catch. The fact that Pages even got to the ball was impressive: He covered 121 feet of ground and had a sprint speed of 29.2 ft/sec.

3. Rojas cuts down winning run at the plate in the 9th
A half inning after his home run rescued the Dodgers from the brink, Rojas once again stepped up to keep L.A. alive. The Blue Jays loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning, with the potential World Series-winning run looming at third base in Isaiah Kiner-Falefa. Thatâ€s when Daulton Varsho chopped a ground ball to second base, with Rojas waiting. After nearly slipping while fielding the backhand, Rojas fired a strike to home plate, just in time to nab Kiner-Falefa — by a matter of inches. (Replay review, which confirmed the call, showed that Dodgers catcher Will Smithâ€s foot briefly came off home plate before landing back on it just in the nick of time.) It was the second consecutive night that Rojas made a game-altering defensive play in the ninth inning, after his scoop at second base helped double off Addison Barger to end Game 6.

4. Yamamoto induces a game-ending double play, via Mookie
Yes, thatâ€s the same Yoshinobu Yamamoto who tossed a complete game in Game 2 and six innings of one-run ball in Game 6 of the World Series who returned the next night to throw 2 2/3 scoreless innings of relief to close out the Dodgers†second straight World Series title. With runners on first and third and one out in the bottom of the 11th inning and the Dodgers leading 5-4, Yamamoto induced a groundball to shortstop Mookie Betts, who touched second and threw to first to secure the game and the World Series title for the Dodgers. It was the first World Series-clinching double play since 1947, back when the Brooklyn Dodgers hit into one against the Yankees.

5. Benches empty over Blue Jays HBP
As if this game didnâ€t feature enough memorable moments, we had the benches clear in the fourth inning … of Game 7 of the World Series. After Justin Wrobleski hit Andrés Giménez with a pitch — the Dodgers lefty nearly hit Giménez on the previous pitch, although it appeared that Giménez may have tried to lean into it — the Blue Jays infielder took offense and shouted a few words towards the pitcher before the benches emptied. Nothing came of it once both benches and bullpens met on the field, but it was still an unexpected sight given the sheer circumstances of the situation.

6. Smithâ€s game-winning HR in the 11th
Why yes, the game-winning, World Series-clinching home run did fall to No. 6, because it was just that kind of night. Smith, who caught every last inning of this series — and remember, we played 18 in Game 3 — had at least one more big swing in him for the 2025 season, and he made it count with a towering solo homer off of Shane Bieber, granting the Dodgers their first lead of the night. Fortunately for the still-defending champs, they’d only need the one. Even factoring in the stakes, this was a pretty normal baseball thing, but the ball did initially land in the Blue Jays’ bullpen, and that has to count for something in a situation like this. It goes down as the first extra-inning homer in a winner-take-all game in World Series history.

7. Jays squeeze out of jam in 10th
Toronto quickly found itself in a dire situation after the game went to extra innings, thanks to two walks and a single off Seranthony Domínguez. Two ground balls got the Jays out of trouble unscathed, although neither was routine (because of course they werenâ€t in this game). First, with the infield in, Giménez made a slick play to field Pages†grounder to his left and fire a strike to the plate to cut down Betts, who was carrying the go-ahead run. Then things got even hairier. Hernández took a partial swing and hit a slow bouncer to the right side. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. charged it and flipped a throw to Domínguez, who had to turn back for it and then blindly find the bag with his foot. He did — just barely.

8. Bichetteâ€s three-run home run against Ohtani
Though clearly hobbled by a knee injury that kept him off the playoff roster until the World Series, Bo Bichette authored the first defining moment of Game 7. He broke a scoreless tie in the third inning with a three-run home run off Shohei Ohtani — and knocked Ohtani out of the game (well, at least as a pitcher) in the process. Bichetteâ€s blast incited pandemonium inside Rogers Centre, and it was indeed a blast: It traveled 442 feet, the third-longest home run of Bichetteâ€s career. Oh, and he sure made the Dodgers pay for intentionally walking Guerrero in front of him, too.

9. Varshoâ€s all-out dive pays off
Even for Varsho, this one was bold. Almost immediately after the Blue Jays took their initial 3-0 lead, the Dodgers loaded the bases against Max Scherzer with one out in the top of the fourth. It was in that situation that notorious postseason performer Teoscar Hernández hit a line drive in front of Varsho in center, who had to make a decision: play the ball on a hop, holding Hernández to a single but likely allowing the Dodgers to pull within one run, or try to hold him to a sac fly with a diving attempt, risking the ball getting past him and rolling all the way to the wall. If the header didn’t give it away, the fielder involved probably did — Varsho took the chance and made the play, and Scherzer got out of the jam having given up just one run.

10. Vladdy turns slick 3-6-3 to end seventh
Trey Yesavage, the 22-year-old Blue Jays rookie sensation, got the ball for the seventh inning, entrusted with protecting a slim two-run lead. Pitching on two-days†rest after his brilliant performance in Game 5, Yesavage walked Ohtani to lead off the inning. After retiring Smith, he faced Freddie Freeman, who represented the potential tying run. Freeman chopped a slider to first base, where Guerrero once again flashed the leather: He fired a strike to second for the forceout, and Giménez returned the favor, just in time for the double play. Yesavage, who has quickly gotten used to inning-ending double plays, stood with his arms raised. The Blue Jays were just six outs from a World Series title.

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