The 2025 World Series, set to begin on Friday, October 24, pits the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Toronto Blue Jays in a matchup loaded with historical intrigue. The Dodgers swep

Over 81 home games, those extra 7,000 fans they draw relative to the Padres and Yankees equates to $56.7 million in additional revenue. That jumps to $137.7 million relative to the Brewers' attendance and $283.5 million compared to the bottom-of-the-barrel Marlins.

Check out this article for a complete list of Los Angeles Dodgers' World Series wins, appearances, record, and more.

As for the Blue Jays, 2025 will mark their first return trip to the World Series since 1993, when they finished off a back-to-back World Series title off of the bat of Joe Carter's Game 6 walk-off homer against the Philadelphia Phillies. Last season, they finished in last place in the AL East.

It's hard, you know -- repeating as the champions of a sport. This is the case for any athletic pursuit, and it's probably fair to say it's especially difficult in baseball, which has so much structural randomness and a related knack for defying expectations.

Despite losing the first two games of the ALCS and trailing the Seattle Mariners 3-1 late into the do-or-die Game 7 on Monday night, George Springer, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays completed the multi-layered comeback to punch their first ticket to the World Series in more than three decades.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers are one win away from returning to the World Series for the second straight season. They were last in back-to-back World Series in 2017-18. This time, they won Game 3 in Dodger Stadium on the strength of, again, starting pitching.