Scherzer, a three-time Cy Young winner and two-time World Series champon, was brilliant for the Dodgers after being traded by the Washington Nationals in 2021. He went 7-0 with a 1.98 ERA in 11 regular-season starts for L.A. and yielded a 2.16 ERA with 23 strikeouts in 16⅔ innings in four appearances during the postseason.

The Braves won just 88 regular season games, but remember that they had to play a huge chunk of the season without Ronald Acuna Jr. Acuna, in just 82 games, put up 3.5 wins above replacement while batting .283/.394/.596 with 24 home runs, 17 steals and 44 extra-base hits overall. Not having a full season of that guy will bring any team’s wins down.

The Dodgers are back home for Game 3 of the World Series Monday night when they take on the Blue Jays after splitting the first two games in Toronto. Los Angeles dropped the first game of the series in a blowout before knotting the series at 1-1 with a 5-1 win behind a complete game gem from Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

Fearless in his response, Ernie Clement decided to be blunt about the narrative favoring the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the World Series, offering a clear message on what the Blue Jays intend to do to the defending champions.

We've ranked the World Series champions since 2000, as well as the best runners-up since the start of the century. But let's dive a bit deeper into the well and look at the 10 best teams of the past 25 years who didn't reach the World Series.

The Blue Jays’ Game 3 starter shouldn’t hear it from the fans about the 2021 postseason, because the Dodgers overused him.

Over the years, home-field advantage in the World Series has been decided in different ways. But these days, it's pretty simple. 1. The team with the higher regular-season win percentage earns the home field,

Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts, an Overton grad, received MLB's 2025 Roberto Clemente Award winner during World Series.