The Mainichi News: Baseball: Dodgers clinch World Series with 5-4 Game 7 win in 11 innings
November 2, 2025 (Mainichi Japan)
Los Angeles Dodgers players, including Yoshinobu Yamamoto (3rd from R), celebrate winning the World Series after Game 7 against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre in Toronto in the wee hours of Nov. 2, 2025. (Kyodo)
TORONTO (Kyodo) — Will Smith belted a go-ahead solo home run in the 11th inning and Yoshinobu Yamamoto got the last eight outs as the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied for a 5-4 Game 7 win over the Toronto Blue Jays and back-to-back World Series championships on Saturday.
Japanese ace Yamamoto (5-1) was named World Series MVP in the wake of his clutch performance out of the bullpen, which sealed a 4-3 win in the roller-coaster best-of-seven series a day after he pitched the Dodgers to a do-or-die Game 6 victory.
The 27-year-old right-hander, who went the distance in the Dodgers’ Game 2 win, became the first Japanese player to receive the award since Hideki Matsui with the New York Yankees in 2009.
“I wasn’t thinking about anything. It felt as if I’d returned to a boy playing junior baseball,” Yamamoto said of his unanticipated start. “After pitching last night, I had treatment and was getting ready just in case.”
Making a two-way start, Shohei Ohtani went 2-for-5 at the plate but was knocked out after just 2-1/3 innings on the mound by Bo Bichette’s three-run homer.
Los Angeles rallied late with solo home runs from Max Muncy in the eighth and Miguel Rojas in the ninth to tie the game 4-4 heading into the last regulation frame at Rogers Centre.
Smith put the Dodgers ahead for the first time with his big fly to left field off regular starter Shane Bieber (2-1) with two out in the top of the 11th before Yamamoto got out of a two-on, one-out jam with a double play in the home half to clinch the championship.
“I didn’t have real confidence about whether I could pitch until going to the bullpen,” Yamamoto said upon accepting his MVP trophy. “I don’t know what’s happening but it’s just great. I did everything I could and I’m really happy to have won with this team.”
Ohtani got out of the second with the bases loaded before running into trouble facing the top of the high-powered Toronto lineup in the bottom of the third.
Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts opted to intentionally walk Vladimir Guerrero Jr., putting runners on the corners before Bichette sent Ohtani’s first-pitch slider deep over center field for a 3-0 lead.
Teoscar Hernandez’s RBI sacrifice fly put the Dodgers on the board at 3-1 in the top of the fourth before tensions boiled over in the home half after Los Angeles reliever Justin Wrobleski hit Andres Gimenez with a pitch, leading to the benches clearing and warnings for both teams.
Ohtani hit his second single in a fifth inning that ended with Los Angeles unable to score while stranding two runners.
Gimenez’s RBI double made it 4-2 for Toronto in the sixth before Muncy and Rojas’ blasts brought the Dodgers back to life. Ohtani flew out to left field as the next batter after Rojas in the ninth, dropping short of the fence as he tried for a go-ahead blast.
Called in to replace fellow rotation starter Blake Snell with one out in the bottom of the ninth, Yamamoto hit Alejandro Kirk with a pitch to load the bags but escaped without surrendering a walk-off run when Andy Pages made a highlight-reel outfield catch to retire the side.
The Dodgers claimed their ninth World Series title, repeating as champions for the first time in franchise history and becoming the first back-to-back winners since the Yankees won three in a row from 1998-2000.
“We had no easy games, including the regular season and it’s a title we all grabbed together,” said Ohtani, who is expected to collect his fourth regular-season MVP award this year.
“It’s just finished so I want to bask in this glory to the fullest for today and tomorrow.”
単語・熟語 発音記号 意味
clinch /klɪnʧ/ （勝利・タイトルなどを）確実に勝ち取る
go-ahead /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ 先制点の、勝ち越しの
solo home run /ˈsoʊloʊ hoʊm rʌn/ ソロホームラン（一人で打ったホームラン）
rally /ˈræli/ （チームが逆転・追い上げる）反撃する
back-to-back /ˌbæk tə ˈbæk/ 連続の、2連覇の
ace /eɪs/ エースピッチャー
clutch performance /klʌʧ pərˈfɔːrməns/ 大事な場面での決定的な活躍
bullpen /ˈbʊlpɛn/ （投手の）控え投手陣、ブルペン
do-or-die /duː ɔːr daɪ/ 背水の、絶対に勝たなければならない
two-way start /ˈtuː weɪ stɑːrt/ 投打二刀流の先発
mound /maʊnd/ マウンド、投手の投球位置
regulation frame /ˌrɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən freɪm/ 規定イニング（通常の9回）
jam /dʒæm/ （走者が塁に詰まる）ピンチの状況
double play /ˈdʌbəl pleɪ/ 二重殺（ダブルプレー）
bases loaded /ˈbeɪsɪz ˈloʊdɪd/ 満塁
sacrifice fly /ˈsækrəˌfaɪs flaɪ/ 犠牲フライ
stranding runners /ˈstrændɪŋ ˈrʌnərz/ 走者を残塁させる
walk-off run /ˈwɔːk ɒf rʌn/ サヨナラ点
highlight-reel catch /ˈhaɪˌlaɪt ril kætʃ/ ハイライト級のキャッチ
repeating as champions /rɪˈpiːtɪŋ əz ˈtʃæmpiənz/ 連覇する
bask in glory /bæsk ɪn ˈɡlɔːri/ 栄光を味わう、喜びに浸る
📖 全文日本語訳
ロサンゼルス・ドジャースが11回裏の5-4で第7戦を制しワールドシリーズ連覇
ロサンゼルス・ドジャースの選手たちは、2025年11月2日未明、トロントのロジャース・センターでトロント・ブルージェイズとの第7戦に勝利し、ワールドシリーズ制覇を祝った。
11回表、ウィル・スミスが勝ち越しとなるソロホームランを放ち、山本由伸は最後の8アウトを抑え、ドジャースは5-4で勝利。これにより、ドジャースはワールドシリーズ連覇を達成した。
日本人エース山本（5勝1敗）は、ブルペンからの登板で大事な場面を抑えたクラッチパフォーマンスによりワールドシリーズMVPに選ばれた。このシリーズでは、彼は第6戦で「背水の勝利」を投げ切った。
27歳の右投手である山本は、第2戦でも先発完投し、ニューヨーク・ヤンキースの松井秀喜以来、初めて日本人選手としてMVPを受賞した。
大谷翔平は打席で2安打（5打数2安打）を記録したが、投手としては2回1/3を投げて打ち込まれた。
ドジャースは後半にマックス・マンシー（8回）とミゲル・ロハス（9回）のソロホームランで追いつき、試合は4-4の同点で最終回へ。
スミスは11回表に左翼への大飛球でドジャースを先制し、山本は2-1のランナー2塁1アウトのピンチをダブルプレーで切り抜け、チームを勝利に導いた。
ドジャースはフランチャイズ史上初の連覇を達成し、ワールドシリーズ9回目の優勝を果たした。大谷は今季4度目のレギュラーシーズンMVPを受賞する見込みで、試合後は栄光を存分に味わいたいと語った。
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