The Los Angeles Dodgers pulled off one of the most unbelievable wins in postseason history against the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 7 of the World Series, tying the game in the top of the ninth inning before taking the lead in the 11th.
The Dodgers beat the Blue Jays, 4-3, in the series, however many fans and pundits have come to believe the Dodgers didn’t deserve their title. Blue Jays broadcaster Caleb Joseph spoke after the Game 7 loss and made a bold statement about the result of the series.
“There were a lot of wet eyes and I don’t blame them for that,” Joseph said after the defeat. “It’s going to sound like sour grapes, and I don’t really give a s—, but I think the better team did not win this series. I think the Blue Jays are the better team. I feel like they played baseball a certain way, it was infectious, it grabbed the attention of the fans, and it’s disheartening to see that the better team did not win. That’s not to take anything away from the Dodgers, but the Blue Jays, they did so many things correct, so many things right.”
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Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy, who brought the Dodgers within one run of the Blue Jays in the top of the eighth inning with a solo home run, clapped back at the comments when asked about the situation on the Foul Territory podcast.
“It’s funny, it’s back-to-back years that the best team didn’t win,” Muncy said. “Like Kiké [Hernandez] said, ‘I’m happy the best team didn’t win.”
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With their World Series win, Muncy and the Dodgers became the first repeat champions since 2000, when the New York Yankees won their third World Series in a row. The Dodgers picked up Muncy’s club option for the 2026 season on Thursday, and he will look to aid the Dodgers in their campaign for a three-peat.
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What happened to the proven adage that “the best team will prevail in a seven game series”? Two years in a row yet the losers always cry! WTF? The Dodgers made the plays. Blue Jays didn’t. We’ve had a week to dissect all aspects of the games. Wipe your eyes and look at the facts.
Said it previously, but stats don’t win games, players do. So, more hits and more runs and fewer errors look great, but when the game was on the line in the 8th and 9th innings of game 6, the stat leaders failed to produce a single run to close the gap or tie the game. And when they had multiple RISPs in the 8th, 9th, and 11th inning of game 7, the stat leaders again failed to produce a single run. You know who did respond in those situations? The LA Dodgers players.
Respect to the Blue Jays for having a great season, and I guess for having an advantage based on stats, but I’ll actually take the team the performed great when it counted most. That’s LAD with their backs against the wall in two elimination games on the road against the team with the best home record (uh, another stat) in MLB in 2025.
You know another couple of stats that mean nothing? LA Dodgers were 0 – 7 in World Series when down 3 – 2 games after the 5th game. And no team who had ever swept in the LCS (Dodgers this year) and played a team that went 7 games in their LCS (Toronto this year) had ever won a World Series. Glad the Dodgers didn’t give up based on stats. Maybe Toronto can learn something about relying on stats to hang their hats and moral victory on from the way the Dodgers performed when it mattered most. And if you take away Toronto’s 9 run outburst in the 6th inning of game 1 and say it was only a more likely 3 runs, the ‘stats’ were much, much closer. So, one inning skewed the bottom line and leaves folks whining about “we were the better team”. If they were, they would have won the series.