It may hurt for Blue Jays fans but the 2025 World Series was one of the best ever

Game 6 (3-1 Dodgers win): Never Seen that Before

If you ever think you've seen everything there is to see in baseball, just wait. Case in point: Game 6 of the World Series. The Blue Jays came into the game with a chance to win it all. But after another impressive start from Yamamoto, the Blue Jays trailed 3-1 in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Kirk was hit by a pitch to start the inning. Myles Straw came in as a pinch runner. Barger came to the plate against Dodgers closer Roki Sasaki. He hit the ball deep to centre field. Straw came in to score. Barger followed behind. The crowd erupted, thinking the Blue Jays had tied the game off an inside-the-park home run.

If that seems too good to be true, it's because it was. The ball had become lodged under the padding of the centre field wall. The play was called dead. It was a ground-rule double. Barger went back to second, and Straw retreated to third.

Still, the Blue Jays had two runners in scoring position and no outs. Clement popped out. Giménez then lined out to Hernandez in left field, who threw to second to double off Barger and send the series to Game 7.

Game 7 (5-4 Dodgers win): Heartbreak for Toronto

At 41 years old, Scherzer became the oldest pitcher to start in Game 7 of the World Series. He did a good job for the Blue Jays, going 4.1 innings, giving up one run on four hits.

Everything seemed to be going the Blue Jays' way when Bichette hit a three-run home run in the third inning to put Toronto up 3-0. It was Bichette's first home run of the postseason, and for a while, it seemed destined to be the defining moment of the game.

In the bottom of the eighth, Clement got his third hit of the night, setting a record for the most hits in a single postseason with 30. He also set a Blue Jays record for the longest postseason hit streak at 13 games. His 10 multi-hit games were another MLB playoff record. His 22 singles are another postseason record.

Adding to that, the Blue Jays set a record for the most runs in a single postseason with 105. Barger also tied the record for the most multi-hit games in the World Series with six, including going 2-4 in Game 7.

The Blue Jays entered the ninth inning holding onto a 4-3 lead, three outs away from winning the World Series. Jeff Hoffman struck out Hernández. One down, two to go. Up came the nine-hole-hitter Miguel Rojas. Rojas hit a solo shot to left field to tie the game, one of only two hits for him during the postseason.

The Blue Jays came to the plate with a chance to walk it off to win the World Series. After Guerrero flied out to centre field, Bichette hit a single and was replaced by Isaiah Kiner-Falefa. Barger walked. In came Yamamoto to pitch for the Dodgers, one day after he threw 96 pitches in Game 6. The first batter he faced was Kirk, whom he hit. Bases loaded, one out, bottom of the ninth inning in Game 7 of the World Series.

Varsho hit a ground ball to Rojas. Kiner-Falefa came home. Will Smith briefly took his foot off the plate to catch the throw from Rojas, but he got his foot back on the corner of the plate in time. The game was still tied.

It's the kind of play that will stick in the minds of Blue Jays fans for years to come. What if Kiner-Falefa had taken a slightly larger lead? What if he had dove head first instead of diving feet first? What if he had run through the plate?

The Blue Jays still had the bases loaded, with two outs in the ninth. Clement hit a fly ball out to deep left field. Hernandez was chasing it, as was Andy Pages. The ball looked like it was going to drop. The two collided, but Pages still managed to make the catch. For the sixth time in World Series history, Game 7 was headed to extra innings.

The Blue Jays escaped a bases-loaded jam in the tenth, but in the eleventh, Smith hit a solo home run to give the Dodgers the lead. The Blue Jays had a chance to tie the game in the bottom of the inning. Kirk came to the plate with runners on first and third with one out. But, he hit into a broken bat double play. For the third time in history, the World Series ended on a double play. The Blue Jays' magical season was over. The Dodgers had repeated as World Series champions.

The 2025 World Series delivered everything baseball has to offer. It was a hard-fought battle between both teams. While it ended in heartbreak for the Blue Jays, it was a series that will go down in history as one of the greatest of all time.