{"id":36742,"date":"2025-11-04T00:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/36742\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T00:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:50:10","slug":"dodgers-celebrate-repeat-world-series-title-with-another-stadium-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/36742\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers celebrate repeat World Series title with another stadium rally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The celebration had hardly begun, when Shohei Ohtani<\/a> first voiced the theme of the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m already thinking about the third time,\u201d he said in Japanese, standing atop a double-decker bus in downtown Los Angeles with hundreds of thousands of blue-clad, flag-waving, championship-celebrating Dodgers<\/a> fans lining the streets around him for the team\u2019s 2025 World Series<\/a> parade.<\/p>\n

Turns out, he wasn\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n

Two days removed from a dramatic Game 7 victory<\/a> that made the Dodgers baseball\u2019s first repeat champion in 25 years, the team rolled through the streets of downtown and into a sold-out rally at Dodger Stadium on Monday already thinking about what lies ahead in 2026.<\/p>\n

With three titles in the last six seasons, their modern-day dynasty might now be cemented.<\/p>\n

But their goal of adding to this \u201cgolden era of Dodger baseball,\u201d as top executive Andrew Friedman<\/a> has repeatedly called it, is far from over.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I have to say to you,\u201d owner and chairman Mark Walter<\/a> told the 52,703 fans at the team\u2019s stadium rally, \u201cis we\u2019ll be back next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a crazy idea for you,\u201d Friedman echoed. \u201cHow about we do it again?\u201d<\/p>\n

When manager Dave Roberts<\/a> took the mic, he tripled down on that objective: \u201cWhat\u2019s better than two? Three! Three-peat! Three-peat! Let\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n

When shortstop Mookie Betts<\/a>, the only active player with four World Series rings, followed him, he quadrupled the expectation: \u201cI got four. Now it\u2019s time to fill the hand all the way up, baby. \u2018Three-peat\u2019 ain\u2019t never sounded so sweet. Somebody make that a T-shirt.\u201d<\/p>\n

For these history-achieving, legacy-sealing Dodgers, Monday was a reminder of the ultimate end goal \u2014 the kind of scene that, as they embark on another short winter, will soon fuel their motivations for another confetti-filled parade this time next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, winning a championship, the seminal moment of that is the parade,\u201d Friedman said. \u201cThe jubilation of doing it, when you get the final out, whatever game you win it in, is special. That night is special. But to be able to take a breath and then experience a parade, in my mind, that is what has always driven me to want to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201c[To] do this for the city, that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about,\u201d first baseman Freddie Freeman<\/a> added. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing that feels as important as winning a championships. And if so happens to be three in a row, that\u2019s what it is. But that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna drive us to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last November, the Dodgers\u2019 first parade in 36 years<\/a> was a novelty.<\/p>\n

Much of the group had been part of the 2020 title team that was denied such a serenation following that pandemic-altered campaign. They had waited four long years to experience a city-wide celebration. The reception they received was sentimental and unique.<\/p>\n

Now, as third baseman Max Muncy said with a devious grin from atop a makeshift stage in the Dodger Stadium outfield, \u201cit\u2019s starting to get a little bit comfortable up here. Let\u2019s keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLosing,\u201d star pitcher and World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a> added, in English, in a callback to one of his memorable quotes from this past October, \u201cisn\u2019t an option.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doing it won\u2019t be easy.<\/p>\n

This year, the Dodgers\u2019 win total went down to 93 in an inconsistent regular season. They had to play in the wild-card round for the first time since the playoffs expanded in 2022. And in the World Series, they faced elimination in Games 6 and 7, narrowly winning both to complete their quest to repeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI borderline still can\u2019t believe we won Game 7,\u201d fan favorite Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> said in a bus-top interview.<\/p>\n

But, he quickly added, \u201cWe\u2019re all winners. Winners win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thus, they also get celebrations like Monday\u2019s.<\/p>\n

As it was 367 days earlier, the Dodgers winded down a parade route in front of tens of thousands of fans from Temple St. to Grand Ave. to 7th St. to Figueroa. Both on board the double-decker buses and in the frenzied masses below, elation swirled and beverages flowed.<\/p>\n

Once the team arrived at Dodger Stadium, it climbed atop a blue circular riser in the middle of the field \u2014 the final symbolic steps of their ascent back to the mountaintop of the sport.<\/p>\n

Anthony Anderson introduced them to the crowd, while Ice Cube delivered the trophy in a blue 1957 Chevy Bel-Air.<\/p>\n

Familiar scenes, they are hoping become an annual tradition.<\/p>\n

\u201cJob in 2024, done. Job in 2025, done,\u201d Freeman said. \u201cJob in 2026? Starts now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dodgers did take time to recognize their newfound place in baseball history, having become just the sixth MLB franchise to win three titles in the span of six years and the first since the New York Yankees of 1998-2000 to win in consecutive years.<\/p>\n

Where last year\u2019s parade day felt more like an overdue coronation, this one served to crystallize their legacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody\u2019s been asking questions about a dynasty,\u201d Hern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cHow about three in six years? How about a back-to-back?\u201d<\/p>\n

And, on Monday, all the main characters of this storybook accomplishment got their moment in the sun.<\/p>\n

There was, as team broadcaster and rally emcee Joe Davis described him, \u201cthe Hall of Fame-bound\u201d Roberts, who now only trails Walter Alston in team history with three World Series rings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talked about last year, wanting to run it back,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I\u2019ll tell you right now, this group of guys was never gonna be denied to bring this city another championship.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was Game 7 hero Miguel Rojas calling up surprise October closer Roki Sasaki, on his birthday, to dance to his \u201cBailalo Rocky\u201d entrance song; a request Sasaki sheepishly obliged by pumping his fist to the beat.<\/p>\n

Yamamoto, coming off his heroic pitching victories in Games 6 and 7, received some of the day\u2019s loudest ovations.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did it together,\u201d he said. \u201cI love the Dodgers. I love Los Angeles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Muncy, Ohtani and Blake Snell also all addressed the crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to get used to this,\u201d Snell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m ready to get another ring next year,\u201d Ohtani reiterated.<\/p>\n

One franchise face who won\u2019t be back for that chase: Clayton Kershaw<\/a>, who rode into the sunset of retirement by getting one last day at Dodger Stadium, fighting back tears as he thanked the crowd at the end of his illustrious (and also Hall of Fame-bound) 18-year career.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLast year, I said I was a Dodger for life. And today, that\u2019s true,\u201d Kershaw said. \u201cAnd today, I get to say that I\u2019m a champion for life. And that\u2019s never going away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kershaw, of course, is one of the few still around from the club\u2019s dark days of the early 2010s, when money was scarce and playoff appearances were uncertain and parades were only things to dream about \u2014 not expect.<\/p>\n

As he walks away, however, the team has been totally transformed.<\/p>\n

Now, the Dodgers have been to 13 straight postseasons. They\u2019ve set payroll records and bolstered their roster with a wave of star signings. They\u2019ve turned the pursuit of championships into a yearly expectation, proud but unsatisfied with what they\u2019ve achieved to this point.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think, definitionally, it\u2019s a dynasty,\u201d said Friedman, the architect of this run with the help of Walter\u2019s deep-pocketed Guggenheim ownership group. \u201cBut that to me, in a lot of ways, that kind of caps it if you say, \u2018OK, this is what it is.\u2019 For me, it\u2019s still evolving and growing. We want to add to it. We want to continue it, and do everything we can to put it at a level where people after us have a hard time reaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, they raised that bar another notch higher.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis parade was the most insane thing I\u2019ve ever witnessed, been a part of,\u201d Kershaw said. \u201cIt truly is the most incredible day ever to be able to end your career on.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Dodgers\u2019 long road toward holding another one begins.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know they\u2019re gonna get one more next year,\u201d Kershaw told the crowd. \u201cAnd I\u2019m gonna watch, just like all of you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The celebration had hardly begun, when Shohei Ohtani first voiced the theme of the day. \u201cI\u2019m already thinking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11440,18647,25700,11273,217,2139,25699,21264,25701,48,52,51,7036,47,50,49,1024,5682,427,18033,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-36742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-championship","9":"tag-clayton-kershaw","10":"tag-confetti-filled-parade","11":"tag-crowd","12":"tag-day","13":"tag-dodger-stadium","14":"tag-dodgers-baseball","15":"tag-dodgers-fan","16":"tag-dramatic-game","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-la-headlines","19":"tag-la-news","20":"tag-last-year","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","23":"tag-los-angeles-news","24":"tag-monday","25":"tag-next-year","26":"tag-team","27":"tag-world-series-title","28":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}