{"id":255479,"date":"2025-11-01T22:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255479\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:54:08","slug":"four-things-have-helped-make-2025-world-series-extra-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/255479\/","title":{"rendered":"Four things have helped make 2025 World Series extra special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Almost by definition, any World Series that goes seven games is a great one, and this certainly has been that, thanks to great performances, surprise heroes, a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/28\/sports\/dodgers-win-epic-18-inning-classic-game-3-on-freddie-freeman-walk-off-homer-to-grab-world-series-lead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">classic 18-inning game<\/a> and some <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/01\/sports\/world-series-game-6s-ninth-inning-was-complete-chaos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">late drama in Game 6<\/a> to get here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1. Great performances\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yoshinobu Yamamoto made it through only six innings in the Dodgers\u2019 Series-tying Game 6 win, which was a light day for the iron-man pitcher. Yamamoto, clearly meant for another era, previously logged two straight complete games this postseason, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/27\/sports\/it-was-always-going-to-be-the-dodgers-for-yoshinobu-yamamoto\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">including one in Game 2<\/a>, and even warmed up for a possible 19th inning in Game 3. He also allowed his usual one run in Game 6, setting himself up for a possible MVP should the Dodgers win.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/29\/sports\/shohei-ohtani-received-ivs-after-historic-world-series-performance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shohei Ohtani\u2019s performance in the 18-inning Game 3<\/a> is the one that will be recalled forever, no matter who gets the hardware. After starting with four extra-base hits in his first four at-bats (symmetrically, two doubles and two homers), and looking unstoppable, Blue Jays manager John Schneider had him intentionally walked four straight times starting in the ninth, once a homer would have won it. When Ohtani walked a fifth time, he became only the fourth player (in any game, postseason or not) to reach base nine times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Toronto Blue Jays\u2019 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (27) reacts after getting walked against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the eighth inning in Game 6 of baseball\u2019s World Series in Toronto on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025.  AP<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Guerrero Jr. continued his torrid October that includes a .412 batting average, 30 times reaching base and 58 total bases. If anyone thought his $500M deal, the highest in the history of the American League, was an overpay, they\u2019ve changed their mind by now.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Almost by definition, any World Series that goes seven games is a great one, and this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,487,462,82,2091,2089,507,24418],"class_list":{"0":"post-255479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-columnists","14":"tag-sports-plus","15":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","16":"tag-world-series"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}