Credit The L.A. Repeat– Won In An Incredible #7/2025 World Series
November 3, 2025
A day later, other than the Joe Davis overt rooting plus end and near game end comments, it is not only objectively, but subjectively, much easier to praise and note the Dodgers’ first ever repeat title.
First off, among the many Dodgers’ heroes, (W.S. winning homer hitter, Will Smith and series MVP Yoshinobo Yamamoto surely), it is Miguel Rojas, who delivered, I will say, along with Hal Smith in 1960 (his 3RHR, B8, the Pirates trailing (7-6) only to need Mazeroski’s Series winning “solo” to (10-9) a great Yankees team) the most incredible, meaningful HR in W.S. annals, when he homered off Hoffman (see Trevor’s “fail” ahead, vs another great Yankees’ team in #3/’98 W.S.) with one out and the Jays up (4-3) T9 in #7.
Next Rojas, who tagged out Barger to complete what was the first of two straight game ending DP’s for L.A. to win #’s 6 and 7, at Toronto, to “repeat title,” handled Varsho’s ball hit to him “bases loaded 1 out/B9 tied (4-4) and threw to Smith, to force Kiner/Falefa (might he have been safe?!) who was running for Bichette (it was Bachert, Yiddish for destiny and the fact they are a superb team, that enabled L.A. to beat a “Tor” team, that outplayed them in the series, as cited yesterday– ’twas “Tor” with by far the three toughest, if not all 4 in the series) at home.
Up came Clement, and his drive to deep left center was run down and caught on an incredibly clutch and great play by Andy Pages, who had been inserted into CF that inning, evoking great memories for Brooklyn Dodgers fans, of manager, Walter Alston inserting Sandy Amoros into LF that very inning, when his superb reaching catch on a ball hit, the rare “other way,” by the great Yogi Berra, was a key, as Brooklyn behind John Podres pitching and 2 Gil Hodges RBIS (2-0)’d yet another excellent Yankees team in another #7.
Though they failed to score “loaded” 1 out in their 10th, as the Jays also did, as noted, B9, plus the fact Yamamoto yielded a “lead” 2B to Guerrero B11, it was a Will Smith “solo” T11, Schneider again “sac’ing” and Kirk hitting into a 6-4-3 DP that gave L.A. their 9th crown, 70 years after their first and 60 after #4 behind Sandy with Lou Johnson and Wes Parker RBI’s, also (2-0).
That is Miguel Rojas, just after his incredible 1 out “solo” T9.
The 1912 Red Sox trailed B10 in #7, really game 8–one tie but it was the decisive game, and they rallied for 2 runs and their second title, denying such for the New York Giants. More notes this week.
From Wikipedia:
In the postseason, Rojas had three hits in five at-bats in the Wild Card Series[38] and was hitless in three at-bats in the NLDS.[4] After spending the first five games of the 2025 World Series on the bench, Rojas was inserted into the starting lineup for Game 6 and 7.[39] In Game 6 he made a tough catch at second base to help turn the game ending double play.[40] In the winner-take-all Game 7, with the Dodgers down one run with one out in the top of the ninth, Rojas, who hadn’t hit a home run in over a month, hit a game-tying home run to keep the Dodgers’ title defense alive.[41] In the bottom of the ninth inning with the bases loaded, he made a defensive stop at second base on a ground ball, throwing it to home plate and preventing a series-winning run from crossing the plate. This play kept the Dodgers’ hopes alive as they eventually won the deciding game in 11 innings.
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Credit The L.A. Repeat– Won In An Incredible #7/2025 World Series
A day later, other than the Joe Davis overt rooting plus end and near game end comments, it is not only objectively, but subjectively, much easier to praise and note the Dodgers’ first ever repeat title.
First off, among the many Dodgers’ heroes, (W.S. winning homer hitter, Will Smith and series MVP Yoshinobo Yamamoto surely), it is Miguel Rojas, who delivered, I will say, along with Hal Smith in 1960 (his 3RHR, B8, the Pirates trailing (7-6) only to need Mazeroski’s Series winning “solo” to (10-9) a great Yankees team) the most incredible, meaningful HR in W.S. annals, when he homered off Hoffman (see Trevor’s “fail” ahead, vs another great Yankees’ team in #3/’98 W.S.) with one out and the Jays up (4-3) T9 in #7.
Next Rojas, who tagged out Barger to complete what was the first of two straight game ending DP’s for L.A. to win #’s 6 and 7, at Toronto, to “repeat title,” handled Varsho’s ball hit to him “bases loaded 1 out/B9 tied (4-4) and threw to Smith, to force Kiner/Falefa (might he have been safe?!) who was running for Bichette (it was Bachert, Yiddish for destiny and the fact they are a superb team, that enabled L.A. to beat a “Tor” team, that outplayed them in the series, as cited yesterday– ’twas “Tor” with by far the three toughest, if not all 4 in the series) at home.
Up came Clement, and his drive to deep left center was run down and caught on an incredibly clutch and great play by Andy Pages, who had been inserted into CF that inning, evoking great memories for Brooklyn Dodgers fans, of manager, Walter Alston inserting Sandy Amoros into LF that very inning, when his superb reaching catch on a ball hit, the rare “other way,” by the great Yogi Berra, was a key, as Brooklyn behind John Podres pitching and 2 Gil Hodges RBIS (2-0)’d yet another excellent Yankees team in another #7.
Though they failed to score “loaded” 1 out in their 10th, as the Jays also did, as noted, B9, plus the fact Yamamoto yielded a “lead” 2B to Guerrero B11, it was a Will Smith “solo” T11, Schneider again “sac’ing” and Kirk hitting into a 6-4-3 DP that gave L.A. their 9th crown, 70 years after their first and 60 after #4 behind Sandy with Lou Johnson and Wes Parker RBI’s, also (2-0).
That is Miguel Rojas, just after his incredible 1 out “solo” T9.
The 1912 Red Sox trailed B10 in #7, really game 8–one tie but it was the decisive game, and they rallied for 2 runs and their second title, denying such for the New York Giants. More notes this week.
From Wikipedia:
In the postseason, Rojas had three hits in five at-bats in the Wild Card Series[38] and was hitless in three at-bats in the NLDS.[4] After spending the first five games of the 2025 World Series on the bench, Rojas was inserted into the starting lineup for Game 6 and 7.[39] In Game 6 he made a tough catch at second base to help turn the game ending double play.[40] In the winner-take-all Game 7, with the Dodgers down one run with one out in the top of the ninth, Rojas, who hadn’t hit a home run in over a month, hit a game-tying home run to keep the Dodgers’ title defense alive.[41] In the bottom of the ninth inning with the bases loaded, he made a defensive stop at second base on a ground ball, throwing it to home plate and preventing a series-winning run from crossing the plate. This play kept the Dodgers’ hopes alive as they eventually won the deciding game in 11 innings.
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