US Edition2025 World Series Odds, Preview and Predictions: Can Blue Jays Upset the Favored Dodgers?
The 2025 World Series features the defending champion Dodgers aiming for back-to-back titles and the Blue Jays in their first appearance since 1993.
- The 2025 World Series begins Friday, Oct. 24, with the Los Angeles Dodgers facing the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre, Toronto, aiming for back-to-back titles.
- After sweeping the Milwaukee Brewers in the NLCS, the Dodgers return as defending champions aiming for a rare repeat, while the Blue Jays clinched their spot with George Springer's Game 7 homer over the Seattle Mariners.
- Shohei Ohtani has impacted both mound and plate, delivering three homers in NLCS Game 4 and leading MVP odds, while Dodgers starters Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto have regained health.
- Ticket listings show high prices for early and potential deciding games, with Games 1 and 2 in Toronto about $1,000, Games 3 and 4 in Los Angeles near $750, and Game 7, if necessary, at $1,700.
- The larger storyline centers on the Dodgers' bid to repeat as MLB's first back-to-back champions since the New York Yankees, while Toronto's historic 2-0 ALCS deficit comeback raises stakes.
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Blue Jays facing toughest test yet in World Series showdown with Dodgers
TORONTO - The resilient Toronto Blue Jays have defied expectations all season and will need to do it one more time if they want to prevail in their long-awaited return to the World Series where they will face the vaunted Los Angeles Dodgers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Just jumping on the Blue Jays bandwagon? Here's your World Series primer
For the first time in more than 30 years, the Toronto Blue Jays are in the World Series, where they're facing the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers. Whether you're a faithful fan who’s been following the team since 1977, or if you've just hopped on the bandwagon, we’ve got a primer for you.
Blue Jays in World Series for 1st time since before Ohtani was born, while Dodgers seek to repeat
When slugger Joe Carter hit the last World Series pitch thrown in Canada over the left-field wall to win the Toronto Blue Jays' second consecutive title, it was 8 1/2 months before Shohei Ohtani was born.
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