Freddie Freeman remains one of the most consistent hitters throughout the past 10 seasons, and he continued that trend in 2025 with another All-Star season despite a power slump through the middle of the year. Freeman was coming off a remarkable run in the 2024 World Series, grinding through a right ankle sprain, a fractured […]
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The Dodgers partied hard this weekend, and now, they’re looking ahead to the 2026 season. Jack Harris at the Los Angeles Times has four big questions for the team, starting with: Can they keep spending this much money? The Dodgers set records this year with $347 million in year-end salary and $415 million in competitive […]
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Behold, a normal spring training is coming for the Los Angeles Dodgers! Major League Baseball on Wednesday unveiled the full schedule for spring training in 2026. The Dodgers will begin Cactus League play on Saturday, February 21 against the Angels in Tempe. In each of the last two seasons, the Dodgers began their regular season […]
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. Blake Snell was the Dodgers’ No. 1 free-agent target last offseason, and the veteran left-hander made no secret of why he reunited with president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman in Los Angeles. “Being able to pitched in a packed stadium, to make moments for people, this is where you want to play. I don’t […]
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There is no better time to be a Dodgers fan than right now. The Dodgers as a team have established themselves as not only the first repeat champions in 25 years, but as a bona fide dynasty. With all the celebration ensuing since Saturday’s Game 7 victory over the Blue Jays, reality will settle in […]
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Amid the joy of the Dodgers’ second straight World Series win and subsequent championship parade and celebration on Monday was the absence of pitcher Alex Vesia, one of the team’s best relief pitchers for the last five seasons. Vesia pitched in seven of the Dodgers’ 10 playoff games through the National League Championship Series, but […]
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Have you come down from the high yet? If yesterday’s parade is any indication, the Dodgers certainly haven’t—and why should they? I’ll be wearing Dodger blue, spontaneously bursting into “I Love L.A.,” and watching highlights all week. In the spirit of letting the party continue, today’s notes feature some excellent analysis of Game 7, parade […]
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The Baseball Writers Association of America on Monday announced the top three finishers for its four awards, with a pair of Dodgers recognized for their excellent 2025 seasons. Shohei Ohtani is in the top three in voting for the National League MVP award, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto is in the top three for the NL Cy […]
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So many things happened in Game 7 of the World Series, even just from the ninth inning and beyond, that it was hard to fully capture everything. “It wasn’t easy, it wasn’t pretty,” Kiké Hernández said during the postgame celebration on Saturday. “But we did the damn thing.” Here are some leftover notes, facts, and […]
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Dodgers legend Fernando Valenzuela is one of eight players on the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee ballot for possible selection to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for the class of 2026. It’s the first time on a veterans committee-type ballot for Valenzuela, who received 6.2 percent of the vote on Baseball Writers Association of America […]
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The World Series has given baseball fans from all walks of life memories for life. From Bill Mazeroski’s walk-off home run in 1960, the catch by Willie Mays in 1954, Luis Gonzalez’s walk-off against Mariano Rivera to thwart the New York Yankees’ chances of winning four straight championships in 2001, and more recently, the Chicago […]
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw the first pitch of the Dodgers’ 2025 season in Tokyo, Japan, and he threw the last pitch of the year in Game 7 of the World Series in Toronto, Canada. The only member of the team’s starting rotation active for the entire season, Yamamoto was the ace who trumped everything else, and […]
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That. Was. Incredible. And I’m not just talking about the World Series win. I’m talking about Freddie Freeman’s homer. Miguel Rojas’ defense. Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s complete games. The whole postseason, from beginning to end. Each game had a historic moment, a top-10 highlight, and every emotion possible. Here are some favorite moments, win by win. Game […]
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Major League Baseball has its first repeat champion since the 1998-2000 Yankees, and it’s only fitting that this Los Angeles Dodgers team is already tipped to potentially match the three-peat those Derek Jeter-led Yankees had 25 years ago. In a world with a shorter and shorter attention span, it’s important to take a while and […]
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The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series, and the number of people who expected to say that ever since the start of the season was uncommon for a sport whose playoff format is so unpredictable. If that championship came, as it did, no matter the circumstances, there would be plenty willing to jump to […]
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The Dodgers offseason is upon us, so let’s look at the roster just before the pilot light on the hot stove is lit. Up first are the players who, as of 6 a.m. PT on Sunday, are now free agents. Free agents (7) Clayton Kershaw is retired after 18 seasons, and now the countdown to […]
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In a winner-take-all Game 7 of the World Series, the first one for the Dodgers since the infamous 2017 series, the Dodgers had to rely on all their starting pitching to get the job done. From the start, it seemed the task was insurmountable as Bo Bichette launched a towering three run home run against […]
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As of 6 a.m. PT on Sunday, the day after the World Series ended, all players with at least six years of major league service time who don’t have a contract for the 2026 season are now free agents, per Article XX(B) of the Major League Baseball collective bargaining agreement. Seven Dodgers are now free […]
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The Dodgers went and won another World Series on Saturday, the first MLB team to win consecutive championships since the New York Yankees from 1998-2000. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was named World Series MVP, the easiest choice of all after he started and won Game 6, then closed out Game 7 by getting the final eight outs, […]
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Here we have details of every Los Angeles Dodgers game from the start of the 2025 season through the end of the World Series, totaling 179 games in all culminating in a second straight championship. You can click on the dates below to find more information and stories from each particular game. All the individual […]
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For two years, I have felt like a prophet extolling the virtues of a flexible, pitching demigod that I actually taller than: Yoshinobu Yamamoto. He stopped the most prolific offense left in the postseason tournament, the Toronto Blue Jays. For his efforts, Yamamoto was named World Series MVP after closing out Saturday’s win in Game […]
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Will Smith caught more innings than any other catcher in a single World Series, and his 11th-inning home run gave the Dodgers their first lead of Game 7, and clinched a second straight championship with a 5-4 win over the Blue Jays on Saturday night and into Sunday morning at Rogers Centre in Toronto. Seven […]
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Major League Baseball’s most prolific streak remains active. With the Dodgers winning the 2025 World Series over the Blue Jays, Will Smith has won a championship for six straight years, dating back to 2020. The Dodgers catcher accounts for the last two of those titles as well as the first in the string, with the […]
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The Dodgers will hold their second straight championship parade on Monday, November 3 in downtown Los Angeles, culminating in a celebration at Dodger Stadium. The celebration will come two days after the Dodgers’ thrilling win over the Blue Jays in 11 innings in Game 7 on Saturday night at Rogers Centre in Toronto. Will Smith […]
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We play on.
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